Vientiane! We finally arrived here at 1.30pm, 17.07.2008 and I love the city. It reminds me of the old Kota Kinabalu.
The journey started at 9.00am where we lined up at the Thai-Lao International bus counter for an hour just to be told that there's only 1 seat available for the 10.30am 2nd class coach. While waiting to buy tickets for the next trip, the officer announced that the first bus had an accident and we have to come back at 10.30am to buy the tickets.
So we had a leisurely breakfast near the terminal, bought the tickets at appointed time and rushed back to the hotel to check out & get our luggages. Lunch was a hurried affair of pork noodle soup and boarded the bus at exactly 11.28am. The bus depart at 11.34am! Talk about on time!
Upon reaching Nong Khai, we hurried down to get our passport chopped by the Thai immigration, then we boarded the bus just to go down again after a short 30 minutes ride at the Laos immigration. Here we were given arrival & departure card to fill at the immigration check in (details are not thoroughly checked) and proceeded to the entrance fee counter to pay a bht10 each. I think there's a luggage scanner but nobody seems to use it. Then it was home free. It took us another hour of nice and scenic ride to reach Vientiane.
We went straight to our hotel at Mali Namphu Guest House at 109 Pangkham Road, tel: +856-21-215093 for a standard room priced at USD19.00
Hungry for Laos cuisine, we walked left of our hotel towards the river and found a nice riverside restaurant and ordered jeun khai with muu (omelette with pork), khao phat muu (fried rice with pork) for me and khao neung (plain rice) for Philip, piing muu (grilled pork) and maak phao (coconut), YUMMY!
Passing through Intercity Hotel, we saw a banner for a 2 hour Laos Traditional massage for USD10.00 or RM33.00. So Philip decided to try it out while I went in search of a cyber cafe!
And here I am......
Hope you guys enjoyed my story!
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