Travel is all about making choices. We had originally planned (well, to be honest I had originally planned, Martin just closed his eyes and hoped for the best) to exit Cambodia via the rarely travelled northeast across the Laos border by the 4000 islands and then up through the south of Laos. Long arduous bus rides through landmined territory. Excellent.
Unfortunately, it appeared that although you could get from Laos into Cambodia, the other way round might not be so easy, as we heard that border may or may not be open and visas may or may not be available. Not the thing to find out after several days on a bumpy bus.
The other land option was to cross into Thailand and head up to Nong Kai, which sounded lovely, but with recent changes to Thailand's visa regulations, may prove problematic when we returned into Thailand next month (thanks for the tip Michelle, sorry we couldn't use it this time!). That left flying. We hadn't really planned or wanted to flying internally, but it was the best plan, and allowed us more time in Laos' north.
Now if I was to tell you that we flew from Cambodia to Laos on Laos airlines in a prop job, what would you think?
Wrong, wrong, wrong!
Siem's Reap's airport is gorgeous, spanking new and airy. The flight left early, we stopped in Pakse, Laos, where we did the immigration thing a (query: why do Canadians have to pay more than any other country for a Laos visa - what did we do wrong?), then back in for the second part of the flight (complete with a healthy, tasty snack) to arrive in Vientiane right on time. Okay there was one very bumpy landing and lots of turbulance throughout, but if you like fairground rides (and we do), it was a treat! All in all, quite anticlimatic really.
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I'm feeling dizzy and queezy, I'm just not sure if it's my overactive imagination or, all the xmas sweets I've been eating at work
Thank goodness you guys arrived safely. I'm relieved you haven't yet been bumped off overboard or hit by a moto.
we did go online before booking to check out Lao Airlines safety record. It was not good but there was evidence on wikipedia that they now have safety procedures that meet whatever the regular airline industry guidelines so we went with them and they were fine. Nice colourful seats and we got food too. Ham and cheese sarnies on white bread. Yum.
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