TRAVELLING THE WORLD * Lao - Trip from Hell
Savannakhet Loas,Savannahkhét,Lao Peoples Dem Rep -TravelPod -February 6, 2010: ... We were sitting in our Hotel Lobby in Hue waiting for our bus to Savannakhet, Laos...
Translation a little weak in Laos
We were very apprehensive about this bus. Even after visiting the travel agent in Hue, 3 times to confirm that we are definitely going to have a nice big bus for this 12 hour trip…. But we have been lied to by travel companies before... Knowing what I know now, we would have never purchased the "OPEN" ticket for travel from Ho Chi Minh to Mui Ne to Dalat to Nha Trang to Hoi An to Hue to Savannakhet... LESSON LEARNED: Buy each segment or ticket the day before or the day you plan to travel, direct from the bus station where you can view the actual bus...
Not our bus
... A Mini Bus (Van) stopped in from off our hotel. As the driver's assistant got out and starting walking towards the hotel entrance, we both looked the other way, praying that this was not the bus for our 12 hour journey. I knew we didn’t pray hard enough when the guy called our names... We were the first two passengers picked up in this 15 passenger Van/Bus. Drove around and filled all but two seats before we headed out of town. I tried to convince Karyn that we were pretty lucky that this bus was not packed. But by then, not only was she not listening to me, she was not even looking at me... But then it got worse…way way worse… We finally left there with 25 people jammed into this the bus. Within the next hour, we made additional stops and picked up another 4 passengers. I didn’t think it was possible, but somehow our driver always managed to fit one more paying customer in...
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