We had some business to take care of there, but after catching up on some rest at the Quinley's, we caught the overnight train from Bangkok to Nong Khai on the northeastern border of Thailand.
We took a tuk tuk from the train to the bus station and avoided paying double what the man asked for. We went through customs and successfully obtained visas at ridiculous prices (even if they were reasonable, any price to just enter a country is ridiculous). We took another tuk tuk to the northern bus station and waited several hours to get a 10-hour bus from the capital, Vientiane, to Luang Prabang. The drive was breath-taking, and we enjoyed ourselves, until around 6 pm.
The mountain vistas were breath-taking until darkness set in and the bus driver sped crazily down the switch-backing mountain roads. It was dark, and we could've fallen into a precipice (<-- Ace Ventura line).
We finally got into LP around midnight and flopped into a nice roadside guesthouse (he didn't speak a word of English - it's incredible that we managed to get what we wanted) and slept off our trip until the next morning...stay tuned!
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