Arriving in Laos

Crossing into Houei Xai Laos...

From the boat you walk up a ramp and wait in a jumble of people to get a visa...After a while a man came up to me, he had been handing out forms and asked me for my passport...I handed it to him and he disappeared...  15 minutes ater people further up the ine near a window started calling out for a Canadian...I waked up and my passport had a visa in it...I just had to pay... Take a look at the pricing for Visas...then look at Canada!

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What have we done to have to pay more than any other country in the world to visit Laos?

Once across and at the bus staion itwas time for sticky rice to enjy as we headed on the crazy bumpy road to  Vieng Poukah...

They are all for breastfeeding in Vieng Poukah!  Good show!

We were ony there for a night and went on a hike with 2 guys form Switzerland and a guy from France...so the french was flowing on this trip...

Here is lunch on the first day of the hike... Our lead guide and one of the Swiss guys... There is dried fried fish, rice, veggies, a pork dish, and fried bananas in dough for dessert!

This is our home for the night, a cabin in a village.we kept the roosters out at night but there cockadoodledoing came in anyways...

Here is out other guide getting dinner ready...It is neat to see how much work goes into making a chicken when it does not come wrapped in Styrofoam and plastic.

Here is what came of the chicken...They added a bowl of greens after...

Outside we had some pigheaded guards...

They were cute and ate anything...

Here is I think the headman in the village enjoying smoking a cigarette out of a bamboo bong.

On the second day we came to another village, here is a spirit sign on the entrance, If these are new you are not supposed to enter the village as they are doing a ceremony...