From Vientiane we went back to the bus stop (travel agency) to get on the bus for 7:30pm. After watching a weird Asian game show with a spiderman contortionist and a team of shadow puppeteers, we found out that we board the bus at 8:30pm, I wish they would tell us these things sooner. So after the distribution of new bus tickets we get on a tuk-tuk packed to the tits full of people. Off to the bus station when we arrive it is a sleeper bus, Karrie and I had sleeper 14 and 13 D. Little did we know that we would be bunking together, we slept on the top bunk together. It was like a huge slumber party on the bus, I kind of feel bad for the people traveling alone and have to sleep next to a stranger.
After departing at 8:45pm we finally make our arrival at 6:45am in Pakse. We had just enough time to grab a coffee and a baguette with jam and off we go again...I dislike switching buses. So we had to unload all of our things from the sleeper bus to a normal regular AC bus. The bus made one last stop at an ATM for everyone to withdrawal money since there are no ATMs on any of the 4000 islands. 7:30am we finally departed for our last stop to Ban Nakasang at about 11am where we get off the bus (btw: the AC died along the way, which has been two buses that have done that to us now.)
Shuffled through a nice area of construction and finally made it to the dock. From the dock they put about 12-14 people in a long boat steered by a very questionable Lao driver with our entire stacks of luggage at the front of the boat.
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