Travelling with Diana

Tickets are very cheap and you’ll buy them from a person in the bus and the price will depend on the bus itself, which I’ve never seen before. If the bus is new and with an aircon the pricer will bit a little bit higher. It’s like the Uber app but for South East Asia. You can order your ride through the app (motorbike being the cheapest option) and it’ll

There are several international airports in the country: Pakse, Vietiane, and Luang Prabang. Always check the prices online as there can be very cheap airplane tickets for your dates. Alternatively, for a cheaper option you could take an overnight bus from Thailand or Vietnam. My bus trip from Da Nang, Vietnam to Vientiane, Laos was supposed to take 18 hours, but in the end it turned out to be a 28-hour journey.

The most popular advised option for travelling through Vietnam is to buy a motorbike in either Hanoi or Ho Chi Minh City and sell it in the last city that you are going to visit. n’t use it, but have a look at https://www.seat61.com/Vietnam.htm. which has more information about the train system in Vietnam. For example, when I needed transport to get from Nha Trang to Da Nang, I had two options: either to take a 10-hour train ride for $40, or a one-hour flight for $23. It’s amazing because it will show you the estimated price of your ride, so that you know how much you should pay for a bike or a taxi (as overcharging is a very popular scam).

so I could look up the name of my hostel, but he wanted to charge me $5 for the ride (yes, in Cambodia, $5 for a ride is a lot), so I decided not to go with him. I checked into my hostel, which was $5 a night, and went to the closest café with fast internet to sort out my phone problem. Even though it’s not the way my phone got stolen, I met a lot of people whose stuff was stolen exactly that way. Either way, I had a tour booked for 2 p.m., which I had booked online the previous day, so I decided to still do that.