Heading to Vietnam

We have secured a new passport, Vietnam Visa, and Laos entry/exit stamp for Emilia. Our flight to Ha Noi leaves at 2pm local Laos time. An hour after that, we'll be at our next destination. The government offices and embassies have all been really great. Everyone has been helpful, we only had to pay one "bribe", and we happily sat in air conditioned offices for a few hours over the last 3 days to get everything we needed. We were told by an ex-pat that we were lucky it didn't happen in Thailand, and perhaps he was right. Regardless, it was nowhere as painful a process as we feared. As Em stated earlier, always carry a copy of your documents and exchange a set with a fellow traveler if you have one. It helped us so much to get through this process as painless as possible.

Vientiane has grown on me a bit. When we first arrived, it was late at night. We were overcharged for a room, everything smelled bad, and I was sick. Since then, I've gotten better, we moved to a cheaper room, and the rain has refreshed the city.

Vientiane unfortunately did not have the high speed Internet that I had been craving. I only have one more photo to post for now. This is the view from the bathroom in Treehouse 5 at the Gibbon Experience. I don't think anything will ever top it in my book.