Bandit country

Yesterday we went by bus from Vang Vieng to Luang Prabang. Another edgy experience. Air con VIP bus - of course air con here means that you can open the windows - like from Vientiane. This drive was even scarier than the previous one. The driver I'm sure was one of the construction workers we heard the other night and maybe was on a suicide mission after what he had gotten up to. The bus was a rickety leftover from China and he was driving about 60 miles/100 km an hour on winding roads through mountains in literal bandit country on roads that probably were paved during the first Indochina war. The scenery was absolutely breathtaking and I thought that even if this will be my last journey at least I will die surrounded by amazingly beautiful views all around me...maybe I've been a good person after all. I survived though so let's hope the bus drivers third job is not as a pilot for Lao Airlines that will take us from Lao to Cambodia.

I will try and post some pictures soon but Lao's high speed internet is not speedy.