Bye bye Laos

So its time to leave Laos which I am very sad about, I really loved Laos, both the scenery and the people, especially the fact that if you wanted to eat - best order when you start to feel a bit peckish rather than when yo are starving as it can take up to 1hr for the food to arrive with the owners having to do a trip to the shops or anther restaurant.

I left Laos the same way I entered with a broken down bus at the border, although this time the bus broke down with the border in the distance so the whole bus was able to get off and walk instead of waiting for them to repair it, it must have been a funny sight a whole bus of backpackers walking down this long straight road in the sun!  The border crossing was pretty painless apart from all the bribes that we had to pay - one for it being Saturday, another for taking our temperature (incase we had swine flu) and another one just because they could, some French guys in front of me argued with the guys on the border and were asking for receipts for the money, I think they ended up only having to pay for one of them but I didn't want to argue with the border people so just paid the money and headed for Cambodia!