6th March – We flewHong Kong to Phom Penh Cambodia and then onto Loas. As we didn’t have the ticket onto Loas as you have to buy an hour and half before we spent a lot of money on visa for cambodia for 5 hours layover in the airport! $25 visa, $20 departure fee and $170 for the one way ticket then another $35 visa for Loas. Oh well no one ever said travel was cheap 🙂 We got to Loas very tired and went to mixay guesthouse after beating the taxi driver down $2 but they were full as were 2 others we tried so ended up at a $16/night place apparently with air con. We had plans to go out but of course after a shower ended up sleeping for 12 hours or attempting to! There was this weird mix of snake charm music and communist type ranting going on in the megaphone outside the window but we were so tired it didn’t matter much. On the way in from town we past temples, a pretty low mekong and lots of locals sitting out on the river bank drinking beers.