My bus to Phonsavan leaves (in theory) at 8am so I grab a quick khao ji pate and head to the bus station. The trip is around 270 kilometres in total, but will take at least eight hours. As I wrote yesterday, Laos may be small, but the going is slow.
We get going just before 9 am and take Route 13—the original artery between Luang Prabang and Vientiane. P…
