20° North
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Sep 09, 2004
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Where I stayed
Friendship Guesthouse
Huay Xai, Lao Peoples Dem Rep
Monday, August 25, 2008
24hrs from Bangkok..
..and I'm finally over the border, in Northern Laos. One taxi, one overnight train, two buses, a rusty clapped out tuk-tuk and a longboat over the Mekong deposited me - lifeless but intact - to the sleepy border town of Huay Xai, on the Laos side of the Mekong River. That's twenty four hours door-to-door and I'm positively shot.
It was actually the flip of a coin that determined the destination, a last minute whimsical decision made as I was passing through Northern Thailand. Tails would have meant me writing this from Burma. But for now the focus is on Laos. The Mekong looks like a mass of fast-flowing chocolate, a ferocious storm is on its way over from Thailand and I'm just off to grab a feed on the edge of it all.
There'll be no phone for a while..
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