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Phonsovan, Lao Peoples Dem Rep
Sunday, Jun 04, 2006

Welfless !!!

David Murray
2007-03-04 09:59:25

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Once breakfast was done, we started the short walk to the bus station. We bought our tickets and realised that Student had blown us out. He needd more lessons, and he wasn't going to get them in Vangers, such is the life of a tourist. We meet many people, and then they are gone again.

The bus pulled up, and Lucy ran for three seats. As the locals only like to sit on one to themselves, she managed to get some, leaving the back seats for the Northerners who were on their way to the same place. The drive over the mountains was quite spectacular and 7 hours later, we had arrived. Lucy and Welf went to check out other bus times. Us for Luang Prabang, Welf for Viet Nam. Unluckily for Welf, the buses to V N only go every second day, and tomorrow was the second day, so he resigned himself to leaving tomorrow. We grabbed a free ride into the town, found a room, and went for a walk. There wasn't much to see, but every guesthouse have cluster bombs, grenades, machine guns and missile cases. All left over from the wars. And just in case you don't know, Laos, per square metre is the most bombed country in the world. During the American war, if the Seppoes couldn't bomb North Viet Nam, they would off load their contents in Laos, namely Phonsovan. And once the bombing had stopped in V N, the Sepps kept bombing Laos as their Government were becoming Commies like the ones surrounding them.

We walked around the town trying to arrange a tour to see the Plain of Jars, as this is why we were here. We managed to get a guy to go for $8 USD, but he wanted to charge us $35 USD to take us to see a Hmong village that uses the old missile cases as stilts for houses and fences. Obviously we reclined. We met another couple and told them price we had and what we wanted to see. An hour later, they came back and said that they had the three Jar sites, and the Hmong village for$6 USD. SO we jumped on and arranged to meet them the next morning

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