It is so hot in the city that today we have decided to go to the waterpark.
After lunch of delicious curry pizza then picking up our glasses and getting Grahame’ clip-ons (fitted exactly to his glasses on the spot!). Anticipating a wet’n’wild type experience based on the advertising we arrived at the park that looked like it was closed down! It wasn’t but there were just two simple slides and a pool operating and there were no more than a dozen guests all afternoon! We stayed the longest – leaving at 6pm because it was closing – and made friends with a couple of young Lao girls who adopted me after I shared all my biscuits with them! They decided to teach me to count on Lao so I learnt to count to ten. They then kept translating every page number of my book as I tried to read. It was fun but a bit frustrating as we couldn’t really communicate although they had no problem letting me understand that they wanted more biscuits!
After picking up our laundry (we are paranoid after leaving the last lot in Thailand) we found a nice restaurant – Lotus Restaurant – just up the road from our guesthouse and there we ran into Marco and Maxim with whom we had shared a bus trip from Luang Prabang to Vang Vieng and a few beers in Vang Vieng. After dinner we hooked up with an Aussie chap Clinton who had just arrived in Lao – his first stop on his first ever overseas trip. He had a bad time both getting out of Australia and arriving in Vientiane but finally made it through the customs and immigration battle and was checking out the cultural centre when Grahame ran into him.
We wandered into town where we indulged in a few beers, checked out the night market (Grahame bought a cool Laos t-shirt for about $2 aussie) on the riverbank and discovered where the locals hang out for cheap eats at the impromptu restaurants on the riverbed!
Khampiane Hotel, Rue Hengbounnoy, Vientiane
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