It’s easy to get used to staying in bed part of recovery. You wake up, go to the bakery, have breakfast, go back to bed, get up, go have lunch, go back to bed etc. You get the gist. This one didn’t set out to be any different. Except that it was. 🙂

In the late afternoon, the owner of the guesthouse came back to us with prices for transport. As there is a border in between, we couldn’t o straight to Chiang Mai. Instead, it was possible to get transport to Houay Xai, the border town in Laos, for 1,200.000 kip (135 Euro), go through the border by ourselves and then be picked up again in Chiang Khong, the border town in Thailand, to be transferred to Chiang Mai. The 314km long journey would cost 10.000 baht (255 Euro). These prices seemed very reasonable. So Flo called our Danish doctor to tell him and he agreed that this is okay for the insurance to pay. Thus, we would leave Luang Namtha first thing in the morning.

This left one more evening here. Or in Laos. Time to have more yummy Laotian food, right? Right. While I still finished my game of Desktop Dungeon, Flo met the only other guest in our guesthouse: Marten. He also travels Laos on a motorbike, though a local one and played the guitar beautifully so we heard him before we actually met him. Agreeing to have dinner together, we went to Minority Restaurant for excellent Lao food.

A lovely evening ensued with good company in form of Marten, Indigo who works (almost) in the restaurant and Jennifer, a traveler from the UK.