Sabaidee, Sok Di Pii Mai (Hello & Happy New Year)
April 27th 2011 I took the SinhTourist bus to Savannakhet from Hue. Crossing into Laos from Vietnam at the Lao Bao crossing was reasonably quick given the need to get stamped out, sort out a visa on arrival to Laos and then go through passport control on the Laos side. It was the last of these that took the longest. I've seldom seen such a disorderly queue as the one at the window to get stamped into Laos, a
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