Hello and goodbye Vientiane.
After our long journey yesterday we arrived at our hotel around half 3 in the afternoon. There wasn't enough time to do much sightseeing so instead we hired bikes and had a leisurely ride a round town. Manouvering through the traffic was once again a little bit of a challenge, but I quickly noticed, to my delight, that here they do have traffic signals, and they pay attention to them :-) . After exploring we stopped on the side of the river and looked over into Thailand, and then got a couple of beers to sit and watch the sunset with. (I am going to attempt to attach a photo but it's anyone's guess if it works or not).
For dinner mum took us to a romantic restaurant with a live band :-) and all the girls in our group had a good little sing along when they cracked out the classics like Celine Dion, Dido, and Phil Collins. Drinks after were had in a bar overlooking the river, and we decided it was probably time to go when they had not only stopped serving drinks and turned the music off, but they turned the lights off too.
This morning was a fairly early start to take our bikes and do some proper sightseeing. We went to a buddist temple 'Phra That Luang' (Great sacred Stupa), Patuxai (Victory Gate), and Sisavangvong Statue. The heat beat us in the end though and we had to retreat to the hotel. After cooling down and eating waaaay too much food at the nearby bakery we got straight back on a coach and are on our way to Vang Vieng.
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