Bangkok to Vientiane

We took the sleeper train from Bangkok up to Vientiane. It was a great train with beer service to your bed and yummy food. We were supposed to get to the border early in the morning but the train driver fell asleep at one of the train stops so the train was eight hours late. I guess we should consider ourselves lucky the train was stopped at the time, but you get used to these things I suppose... like for instance, this chap working on the power lines...



Vientiane was a nice relaxed capital. We saw a version of an arc d'triomphe here. It was half finished because the Laos ran out of money and just downed tools. They call it the veritcal runway because it was (half)built out of money meant for a new airstrip, heh.



A couple of days here helped us to relax after all the intense relaxing in Bangkok. Time to unwind from all that relaxing and relax a little bit. Did we say 'relax' a little too much? Well, its become rather a specialty of ours these last few months. If we were any more relaxed we'd be mistaken for being in comas.