Our Guest House bedding and furniture are hilarious. The headboard is a pink and blue rendition of a bad Mickey Mouse cartoon celebrating the Beijing 2008 Olympics. Mickey is kicking a soccer ball. The mattress has a teddy bear and some words like Congratulations, weird.
As we leave Phonsovan we stop to have a soda in the ‘departure lounge café’ which is a bamboo walled wooden building. It can hold about 35 people when full.
They serve Laos, Vietnamese and Chinese fare according to the very old French language notice.
The runway is invisible because of the tall grass surrounding it. The local cows and water buffalo enjoy the tall grass around the runway, and have to be moved on before the plane lands by the guy who also acts as the brake guy for the plane.
Chickens peck about outside the door of the departure lounge Café.
We fly from Phonsovan directly to Vientiane, then take a taxi to the Friendship bridge to do our Laos into Thailand crossing. We were able to get a 30 day visa for Thailand, saving our 60 day visa for after our trip to Cambodia with Jeff’s Mom and Julie.
We stopped in Vientiane on the way to the Friendship bridge to pick up some pastries at Joma baker. Our driver was talkative and had fairly ok English. He told us he was in the Laos Air Force from 1965-1982, he had flown sortees over Phonsovan and the Plain of Jars area, where he had dropped bombs. He had been in the States for about 3 years where he learnt English and was trained in the military camps there.
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