Laos, is that in Singapore? and comfortable bushes

So we're in Laos at the moment. Flew in on Tuesday morning, left Malaysia at 7am, got to Vientiane at bout 10am. Good flight for 30 squids.
Landing at the air port (tiny and V. basic) we knew that we had to buy a visa in $ to get us in. $35 actually scanks. Reading the document we had to fill in it states 'Our country, Our Tax', Nicely put and fair doos.
So after Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur I expected a city with traffic, noise, Koh San area all the general workings. Vientiane, what a difference. It's about the size of GY, its mainly low rise, the tallest buildings are the temples, yes it's really dirty from the dust clouds but there isn't huge piles of traffic. All together a nice surprise.
So Vientiane is a quiet city and a couple of nights in a spotless B+B for 7 quid sufficed, So we decided to move on to Vang Vieng.
Now, there were a couple of ways to do this lengthy trip, either VIP bus of local. We chose Local. What fun, no not sarcastic it really was good fun.
Everyone piled on and threw in their belongings, baggage, a stalls worth of fruit and a mattress or two and off we set. No saying Vientiane was quiet, the roads were jammed to get out. Then all the locals were rushing to the front of out bus and properly rubber necking. MMMM.... what is going on.
Turns out there has been a crash between a ped and a lorry. So the police dont block the road, they just let you drive straight though. Lets just say there was blood and some bits of body which were indistinguishable all over the road. Me thinks he was a gonner.

Driving slowly on out of the traffic we found village after village which consisted of wooden huts raised off the ground on stilts. The living conditions were quite an eyeopener. There were also towns full of hanging smoked fish and rice for sale lining the streets.
At one point we stopped for a 'comfort brake' yep we stopped at the side of the road at a bushy area. We sat there and thought 'whats happening?' , 'toilet break' was the reply. No Shit- well maybe there was............

So we are in Vang Vieng, the Koh San of Laos. Full of knob heads and we think we will be moving on pretty soon, just got to sample to local speciallity of tubing down the river.
See you soon.

Oh, nearly forgot, best quote from an unnamed mother-in-law:

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