My boat is (again) a bus

 

December 29, 2022 – Pak Lay, Laos

A few days to cover and it should be short. Just the regular complaining.

We got up ready to hear out to the boat. Boarded out mini bus and drove to the nearest Best Western hotel. What is the world is going on? Seems the river is too low for our cruise boat to make it to Vientiane. So our boat cabin is a corporate concrete box. Except for the not view it is the same as any other Best Western anywhere except Dhaka Bangladesh. I settled in and waited for notification on what to do next. Eventually I caved ad went in search of the rest of the group. Not on the second floor dining room. Not on the lobby, but a receptionist took pity on me and called the guide.

A tuk-tuk ride to the restaurant and some grub. I enjoyed it, most of the crowd thought 3 star was too hot. Then

off to the regular tourist trail. A couple important temples, none of them over 200 years old Siam trashed the city before heading home in the 1800’s.

Then to a big Arc triumph that was made with cement from the USA. The purpose for the cement was to build a new airport. Of course it went to building a monument.

Back at the hotel for drinks and dinner I feel crappy and went to bed at 9pm. 4Am wake up and flopped until 6 since we had to be on a bus for a 2 ½ hour ride to a small boat to take us to the big boat. What can you say about a bus ride? The wheels on the bus went round and round.

Then a jetty and out boat to the boat. I am all peopled out so kept to myself and dozed most of the 7 hours. On the boat cabins assigned, safety briefing and now dinner.

As I told you it was going to be short. That and I still do not feel well and seem to have left Alieve back home. I’m going to try and stay awake until 9pm. I am such a big girl.