Monday, December 8, 2008

Day 16 - Siem Reap to Luang Prabang (Laos) "I'm sorry, we can't let you into the country, everyone who works here wants to go home"

Slept in on our last day in Cambodia .... off to town so Kathryn could get a massage, and finally managed one after two aborted attempts - the first due to jackhammer noise on the other side of the wall, and the second because of a strange massage technique requiring donning a pair of pyjamas. Mike spent the time while waiting for Kathryn fruitfully doing nothing useful at all (except drink coffee), which he is becoming quite good at on this holiday.
We met up with Mr Kao back at the hotel for our trip to the airport, where he told us that his son had been bitten quite badly by a dog the day before, and as a result we managed to learn how the Cambodian health system works - you queue outside the front of the hospital with everyone else until it's your turn for free treatment.
The flight to Luang Prabang was interesting .... we got to chill out on the tarmac at Pakse airport when it stopped there to pick up more passengers, it felt more like a bus trip than an air flight!
On arrival at Luang Prabang airport we were very amused to find that the customs officials were very keen to help us through so they could go home .... to the extent of filling in Kathryn' paperwork for her while she went to the toilet! Lucky we didn't have anything to declare!

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