One night in Jinghong at a hostelling international....seperate dorms for girls and boys...lets just say it was a rubbish hostel. Next day we went to the bus station to cross the border to Laos and get to Luang Nam Tha. At the bus station we meet a Canadian couple called Liza and Ty who are also doing the same bus trip as us and bump into Sarah and Jeremy!The border crossing was pretty uneventful. The Chinese border guards were very nice questioning Charlie on where Harold Wood was and generally talking about football and then asking me where my fringe had gone (I have one in my passport photo) and what we call a fringe in the U.K....very random but funny! The Chinese border was much more extravagant than the Laos border which appeared to be a shed!We paid our border fee...less than the other nationalities, yaaay for being British and we were in Laos!!!
Luang Nam Tha was pretty much a one street town. Lined with Guesthouses and restuarant/bars. There were a lot of tourist but it still felt authentic to me! The people were very nice and we managed to get a nice room for less than 4 GBP each!We all sat and ate together and shared a few beers and generally had a good evening. A woman came up selling bracelets (the type Charlie likes!) so we haggled with her to get 7 bracelets for 6,000 kip and 2 yuan!This is roughly 70p. There is 12,000 kip to the pound!She then proceeded to make kissing noises at Mattheui (a french guy we met on the bus) and we all thought she wanted a kiss...it turned out she was selling drugs...welcome to Laos!We all started laughing and declined her offer and she went on her merry way....Think i'm gonna like the people in Laos....no aggression or harrassment here!
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