Laos

We have done plenty of hellish journey's in our time.... jammed packed sleeper trains with mice in India, sauna buses in Turkey, a 10 hour over-nighter with an obsessive air-horn blower where the air-horn was inside the bus in Egypt..... but nothing compares to the ONION BUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We left Vietnam to all our relief and caught a dodgy bus to the border 3 hours away. It took 9 hours just to get to the Vietnamese side of the border due to the insane packing and loading that took place. None of us could believe the amount of stock that was loaded on, our bus literally doubled in height and the already crammed inside became an impossibility! We had hundreds of bags of onions, garlic, limes, noodles, roof tiles, rice, live pigs, boxes and boxes of who-knows-what, and 28 people in a space with only enough places for 12. It was an experience for sure. The only consolation was the fact that there were two other stupid 'falangs' on there with us too!!!!!!


In high spirits getting on the half empty bus.

The first load up of goods. After this stop we stupid 'falangs' thought this was full.

Then the onions arrived and took over the bus.

Almost double its height.... with still a little more to be piled on.