Lost In Translation @ LAOS..finale

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Day 4

We have to get ready by 7am today,continue our journey to Xieng Khuong (plain of Jars). Approximately will take about 5-6 hours by minivan, 7-8 hours by VIP bus. We woke up early just to get breakfast from our fav café Jumo but its not yet ready to serve. So, I just had simple biscuit and hot chocs.
After 2 hours driving, the driver stop at one place,looks so cowboy town and just pointing to Hong Nam. We bought tuna sandwich for each of us which cost us 15,000kip per sandwich (expensive..yess but we don’t care cos hungry and the sandwich is big).. I bought orange not even 1 KG..cost me 10,000 kip. Just pay, don’t really care. Need something sour for the road trip.
We arrive XK (another dead city) about 12.30 noon, looking for GH..we have not book in advance becos the plan has goes offline from previous itinerary, we got a very nice place to overnite..USD7 per nite/person including breakfast. The room is Seri Malaysia standard..really.. the best GH so far I’ve been in Laos and cheap. Name Dou Khoung..
At 2.30pm, we go for lunch and 3.30pm we heading to Plain of Jars ( A must see site if you are in Laos). Entrance Fee only 10,000 Kip. I bet it will be more expensive after being declare as UNESCO World Heritage…..they are working towards that.
The place has its own mystery. No one really knows what is the exact story behind all this stone jars. Its like StoneHenge in Asia.
Few theories….the jars to keep dead body…the jars to hide ppl and food from giant….its really big and many…so photo session begins….
Night at Xieng Khuoang is really nothing. Its absolutely a dead rural area. We went out and have dinner at NIsha reataurant…its an Indian restaurant, not sure Halal or not, so we just order vegetarian food. My fren bought banana prata on the way to the restaurant. Its banana n chocolate prata. Looks so ugly but the taste is acceptable. A Philippines couple coming into the restaurant and ask us..”what is that”..heheheheh.. and he say “good Luck’ to try that food… This old couple is lovely and like to chat … we talked about our travel experience, the places we’ve been and some issues…they surprise when we said we are a group of women engineers and the wife said..’you are engineer and love travel,that’s y its hard for you to find husband’..hahahahhhahhaha…..we took photo with them using their camera and forgot to use our camera…they declare we are their daughters…heheheheheh…lovely couple and now we have GodParents from Philippine…

Day 5 & 6

Today will be a long day … its our journey back to Vientiane from Xieng Khuang and take 8 hours of zigzag road….can you take it?? Well , we have to.
Have our free breakfast, baguette with butter and jam plus tea…at 8.00am..off we go.
Stop a while at one place, we don’t know the name of it…to have lunch. I had noodle soup wt vege only and orange juice…we enjoy the scenery of school student just came back from school …. All of them ride a bicycle with black n white uniform….white shirt and black trousers (for boy) and black Laos skirt (for girl)…sleep all the way till arrive VT at about 4pm…rest for 3 hours, our for last dinner in VT.
Had foot+head+shoulder massage before dinner. Only 46,000 kip.We had seafood by Mekong River bank (there are under construction and u cant really see the river….)..the most expensive dinner at Laos…USD30 for 3 …another 2 frens, they prefer Indian food instead of Laos local seafood.
Stroll along pasar mlm along the riverbank, but nothing to buy this time…we had good choice in Luang Prabang…Laos is not so much for shopping..its more of sightseeing.

The last day….we went to Sabaidee café to start our day before heading back to KL. The coffee is extremely strong (based on my fren comment), I had hot lime tea, not so much coffee drinker myself…good croissant…some had French toast with cinnamon…take tuktuk to go to the airport after had some argument with tuk tuk driver on the price…he wants 150,000kip per tuktuk….finally got 80,000kip per tuktuk for 5…its higher USD2 than minivan but we don’t care much that time…just pay USD10 to him for all of us…
The line in the airport so long…system crashed they said…ready for airport tax USD10 but its no need…we don’t know why…flight slightly delayed due to some passenger have problem in immigration… We finally arrive LCCT at 2pm…

We back to Urban Life….Back to fast paced…Back to humidity…Back to Malaysian Food I miss so much …Everytime I Touch down Malaysia regardless of from where….I feel so glad and blessed…..
HOME SWEET HOME….. next vacation???hmmm Myanmar perhaps..