Today I got a bus to Vientiane ... advertised as 8 hours ... took 14 hours cos the &%# bus broke down after 3 hours!!! Oh joy!
When the clutch started making really horrible noises I thought oh no !!! And sure enough 1/2 an hour later the bus broke down in a little village on the main road to Vientiane ... nobody was told anything and nobody knew what was going on. I slept nearly the whole time and then over 3 hours later another bus turned up. Finally we arrived into Vientiane at 10pm to the northern bus park. The Tuk Tuk Mafia was waiting for us. It was late and I didn't have any accommodation booked but this group of backpackers were arguing with the Tuk Tuk drivers over 10,000 kip ... just over $1 ... grrrrrr ... I just wanted to get into town which was 10 kms away and get a bed and go to sleep!
Finally we arrived into town and I wandered the streets for awhile... very daunting when all the guest houses have "FULL" on the doors at 10.30pm at night and there are miscellaneous men and hookers on the streets. I found a dodgy guest house and I mean dodgy ... but he wanted payment there and then and of course I had no kip so he made me go out on the street again at 11pm and get some money ..... WTF .... so I had to walk past the miscellaneous men and hookers on the street corner in search of 80,000 kip. I offered to leave him $20 AUD as a deposit and I would get the money in the morning but oh no he wanted his 80,000 kip right there and then!!!! I got to the supermarket ... they wouldn't change AUD ... found an ATM .. pulled out 1,000,000 kip ... in my rush realised it was way too much money for one more day in Laos. Oh well at least I had a bed for the night!
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