Crossed from Thailand into Laos, knew we'd gone wrong when the road ended at a huge army camp - a nice 50km detour - bo****ks. Had to flag down a bus to get to some accommodation - put our 2 bikes and 4 bags on top and sardined ourselves into the full bus - usual SE Asia chaos, sitting on rice bags in the isle, passing a bag of sweets around to break the ice - stonking More...