14th October: This Way to Laos (Anyone for Cricket?)
October 14th 2010 We set out early, Molly keeping us in order like a mother duck, to get a jump start on the backpackers and tour groups that would be queuing at the border. Once we'd completed the departure paperwork, it' was down to the waters edge to grab a long boat, across the river to Huay Xai. This bustling riverside border town was once an important link in opium trafficking through the golden Triangle.
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