Day 33 - Twenty Seven Hours on a Bus!

Considering we were cocooned in the reclining bus seats for the entire day, this entry has been added after the fact.  Perhaps the delay has been useful. In retrospect, hard edges are always a little smoother and the difficult parts a little softer. Here are just some of the highlights from our bus trip from Hanoi, Vietnam to Laung Prabang, Laos. We started on January 24th and arrived on January 25th.

16:45 - Collected from the hotel and walked to pick-up spot
17:30 - Van came to bring to the station
17:45 - Tourists separated into groups by destination at station
18:00 - Boarded bus.
18:10 - Cargo loaded into, in, and on bus.
18:30 - Bus departed station
20:00 - Stopped for dinner
23:00 - Unloaded some cargo / took on passengers
01:30 - Stopped or more passengers
06:00 - Arrived at Vietnam-Lao border
07:00 - Vietnamese border opened / stamped out
08:30 - Processed Lao visa
09:00 - Continued into Laos
13:00 - Had Lunch break.


15:20 - Bus had mechanical problem in a small village

21:00 - Arrived in Laung Prabang

We had a booking at the Philaylack Villa, so we knew where the tuk-tuk driver should take us. It was so nice getting checked into a room simply to brush our teeth and have showers!