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[Travel] Part 4 of 6, Laos – The Forgotten Land

Welcome to Luang Prabang

After enduring more than 12 hours of ass-pained ride inside the “VIP” bus from Vientiane, we finally reached the once-glorious capital of Laos. If you reach here the first time, try catching up on the log on the first part to Laos.

I can’t really describe what is my feeling on this 12-hours ride inside the bus. First time experience, and from whatsoever blog that you can read from the internet can’t justify the experience, really. Most of the information that I have gotten…

• It’s a long ride – true
• It’ll be a winding road all along the way – true
• You won’t have a good sleep – agree

Upon waking up from those continous sleep-wake-sleep-wake routine inside the bus, I realized that we actually passing through mountains that is paved on a 2-lane road.

Seems like a lot of forest along the way are truncated. Can’t take a really detailed picture at the moment as I’m still pretty dizzy but it’s really a sore sight though.

I’m pretty sure most of us felt the same inside the bus

And here we are, finally on the bus terminal in Luang Prabang, which you can extend your trip, and take a bus to Vietnam or even China! (If you want)

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Hello Singapore

It has been a while that I’m literally sit down and talk to a person in real life. Well, anyway the trip down to the land of water lion proved that there is much more thing I have to learn about life? And also it almost feels like a person like me can’t complain in life and have the feeling of “fear” even though I’m travelling alone. I guess this has been one of the stunt I pulled off after the one from Shanghai. Luckily this time around, my trip to SG is far more breezier than how it was USED to be back in 2004. It was hell back then. Basically something that I suppose to complete within the 2 week stay using Social Travel Pass (White Card) in SG.

Went to Klang bus station and took the usual route down to JB/SG. Costs me around RM35. And of course, I suppose to expect an early trip from 8am onwards, but they said that only 11AM will be the first ride. And so on.

Riding down south

And here I am. Reached at approximately 6:30 P.M. Cool eh? With all those continous stopping. 6 hours is what they can take you.

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