Huay Xai and Pak Beng
January 24th 2009 Polly:
After our short boat ride across the Mekong River to the Laos town of Huay Xai, we filled in our visa applications and paid the US$35 each for our thirty-day visas. They processed these quickly and stamped our passports.
We then walked up the slipway towards the town, stopping at a tour agency to enquire about our onward transport. All the boats and buses from Huay Xai depart in t
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