One of the best things about Loas is that the word for hello, good bye, and how are you is the same. Hence, within minutes you feel like you are at home!
Despite the friendly reception, our entry into Loas was a little strained after we were stuck in a no-name village 30km this side of the Loas/Vietnam Border (Lak Soa) for 10 hours, after the bus broke down. The locals immediately grabbed their stuff and scrounged isle seats on local buses. We, on the other hand were left with 25 hormonal, winging 19 year-old gap year kids from the UK, need I say more? Such a fascinating study in human behavior, images of the movie 'lord of the flies' sprung to mind. I spent most of my time trying to figure out which one was Piggy. Lucky for them the bus got fixed and no-one was pushed off a cliff!
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| Can you see the Arc De Triomph? |
Once we finally arrived in Vientiane we found a city with a mixture of Asian and french colonial archituture and people that were friendly, laid back and equipped with cherub like faces... quite a contrast to their Vietnamese counter-parts. We spent the following day looking at a few of the sites and planning our next leg
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