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- 1 de mar. de 2017, 00:03
- 🌙 21 °C
- Altitude: 558 pés
- LaosVientiane17°58’0” N 102°36’0” E
Day 21 - Kraft Cheese and Hot Dogs
1 de março de 2017, Laos ⋅ 🌙 21 °C
A brief entry today as it's a transit day so we've spent a good chunk of it on the move.
We started our day with a 'classy' hotel breakfast. It featured hot dog sausages and kraft cheese slices beautifully rolled. We thought we'd make the most of it so had about 4 courses each. We sadly said goodbye to our nice air con room and as we'd be room-less for the day tried to find some cooler activities.
First we found a geocache of course. Then we walked to the COPE (Cooperative Orthotic and Prosthetic Enterprise) centre. Similar to the UXO centre in Luang Prabang part of it was the harrowing stories of the unexplored cluster bombs in Laos but there's more of a focus on how they support anyone in Laos who's missing a limb or has a deformity for whatever reason to get assistance. There were some beautiful videos and stories about how COPE go into rural communities to find those who need help, measure them for prosthetics and get them to a city to fit them and give them rehabilitation plus lots of examples of the prosthetics people had made for themselves before getting help. A must visit for anyone in Vientiane.
Needing somewhere to escape the afternoon heat we went to the cinema. Sadly the English audio choices were limited to one option so John Wick Chapter 2 it was. What a load of rubbish. The first one was good, this one was 5 minutes of story per 30 minutes of runny, smashy, killy stupidity. We did pay the extra 80p (so £4 total) to sit in the premium seats, or the 'honeymoon' seats as they're called. Weird. They seemed no different from the normal seats and there were only 6 people in the screen so we probably could have sat there anyway. A very late lunch at the shopping centre where the cinema was we headed back to catch our taxi to the airport
Vientiane airport is a small, basic airport but with the nicest fridge magnets I've seen all trip. I knew it was worth hanging out for a good one! (When buying a magnet makes the blog you know it's a slow news day). A quick flight took us to Hanoi. After some minor visa confusion where no one seemed to recognise the visa we had despite it being the one the British government website directed me at we were allowed through and are now at our hostels. Let's see what Vietnam brings!Leia mais
Jill Coxon Ooh did someone mention honeymoon? 👒😄 xx
Jill Coxon I like the blingy tableware!
karen fowler Bet that breakfast cost more than the Hilton x