Good Morning Thakhek!

8:18am. We are at our hotel having breakfast, which is nice since we haven’t eaten since lunch yesterday. Let’s talk about our bus ride - We had a brutal 9 hour ride to Thakhek on an old bus, with questionable brakes, and some very rough roads. We arrived at Takhel at around 11:15pm. We would have gotten here sooner but there were additional stops to pick up supplies, for example the stop where they loaded tons of wood into the lower luggage compartment. No wonder everyone’s luggage was all crammed into the back of the bus. The bus aisle floor was full of bags of rice and fruit. However, I am very understanding of the utilization of supply logistics in parts of the world where one has to take full advantage of vehicles with capacity.

There were also further travel challenges. It was late and our hotel was 2 miles away from the bus station. We found a Tuk Tuk driver that took full advantage of the late hour. Anyway we negotiated some and finally made it to our hotel.

I was too tired, hungry, and grumpy last night to take pictures of anything…:)Read more