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| Sa Kaeo Last Online: Today 11:54 AM Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: London,England
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| Bed Bus - Vientiane - Pakse Christmas day,I arrived in Vientiene from Vang Vien and booked into the Hotel Lao. I dont know what I paid for the room,as it was part of a package deal.Central location is the only good thing about the place,rooms were `grubby`. Boxing day,myself and a mate nipped down to the Cambodian embassy to get visa`s for crossing from Laos to Cambodia,for 3 europeans and one Thai. Although the falangs got a full page visa,the Thai only got a stamp...but we all paid the same,$35 I think? Picked up passports at 1600 and made our way to bus station,cost $8 by tuk tuk. Paid $16 for ticket to Pakse on bed bus. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Had a nice double bed for me and the gf. 12 hour journey,with a stop halfway for something to eat. Slept most of the way,very easy journey.Would definately travel this way,in the future,if available. Shame they dont have this in LOS. |
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| Sa Kaeo Last Online: Today 11:54 AM Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: London,England
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| We negotiated a private mini van to take five of us to Khong Island.Sorry,I cant remember how much we paid. We stayed at Mr Pons hotel. If you like solitude,very little to do except get drunk on Lao Lao ($1 a litre) and looking at bit`s of greenery,masquerading as one of the 4,000 islands,then this is the place for you. Paid $4 to go look at a local waterfall....the river jumping over some big rocks,is what I would have called it. Another day we went to look at the Irrawaddy Dolphins,think it was $5,plus an extra $1 because the boat your in crosses into Cambodian waters.Spent about an hour watching for dolphins,before getting the briefest of glimpses of them....but,what the hell,there`s bugger all else to do except get drunk or stoned. |
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| Go ask Alice Last Online: Today 01:00 PM Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: where the streets have no name
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| They have these in China too, took one with the ex Mrs from Kunming to Dali in Yunnan province. A bit sobering seeing the wrecks scattered at regular intervals down ravines or just by the road. Nice way to travel though. |
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| Chiang Saen Last Online: Today 12:51 PM Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Sunny land of Tzu
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| just took that bus last week : - company = chitprasong (a friend advised me) - ticket for 150 000 Kips, and they pick you up at your guest house, around 19:00. Some guesthouses will want to sell you the very same trip for up to 190 000 kips, sometimes arguing they'll provide a 'dinner'. In fact, just the same service. ![]() up ![]() to the back to the frontI liked the "chalet" look. Just didn't agree too much with how friendly my vietnamese neighbor was.... For total comfort, book 2 (adjacent) seats !
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| Milkman was God Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Peppers Bakery, Ubon Ratchathani
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| My brother got picked up half way along the route (he booked in advance) and ended up in quite a argument as the space reserved for him was next to a bloke who was not told about an extra passenger coming on board and obviously assumed he had a double bed for himself.
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