Everybody Off
We arrived at Luang Nam Tha, end of the line.
There are two more comments about the bus in Laos:
I wish I had taken a movie of the bathroom on the bus.
Just imagine, though, a stainless steel toilet, a large tank
of "treated" water sloshing around and spilling out as
we travelled over a winding, bumpy road. After I spent
a wild ride trying to get my pee into the toilet without
getting soaked with the "treated" water, I knew why
people were not using the bathroom!
It was easy to tell when we were approaching a town
along the route: everyone would pull out their cell
phone and call! Laos is a country that skipped the
technology of stringing up copper for phone lines. The
government put in a cell phone system which makes it
possible to get cell service just about anywhere there are
people. Even in the remote hill villages, I saw elderly
ladies, living in huts and farming for their own food,
using cell phones.
