Pakse - Vientiane. 🚌

After the beer, I took the night bus, a journey about 12 hours to the capital, Vientiane.🚌
It was a sleeper bus, but quite different from what I expected. I didn’t book the ticket online like I usually do. Instead, I asked the guy from the scooter shop to reserve a place for me because I didn’t have connection at that time, and he also happened to sell bus tickets.

When I arrived at the bus, the driver showed me my place. I had a bed number, which was new to me compared to my experiences in other countries. The bed was only about 90 cm wide, which wasn’t a big issue, but then I noticed it had two numbers. I lay down, a bit confused, trying to figure it out.🤔

Suddenly, a local man arrived, said something I didn’t understand, and before I could react, he started climbing over me, because his spot was by the window. And then he just lay down next to me. For the first moment I was shocked.😂 🙉 He even started eating his rice right there, and after finishing, he turned onto his right side and went to sleep. I lay there on my back, tense, trying to relax and process the situation. I kept thinking about what I should do, because I couldn’t turn to the left or the right, both sides would’ve been uncomfortable and honestly quite awkward.😵‍💫🤭
Otherwise so conservative, but sharing a bed with a stranger woman isn’t a problem?😂👀
Even though I normally can’t sleep on my back, I spent a few hours just lying there and trying to close my eyes. I couldn’t really sleep, so I started writing these notes instead.😋

After a few hours, the bus stopped, the man got off, and a woman lay down next to me. I felt a bit more comfortable🤭, but still not enough to sleep properly.
We arrived in Vientiane at around 8 am, afterwards I went by scooter-taxi to the hotel.🛵Les mer