Winding our way to Phonsavan

At 8:30am we caught our mini-van to Phonsavan. We said goodbye to our deer friend and the cheeky monkey and bought some sandwiches for the trip. It was a windy(curvacious) 7 hours through the mountains to Phonsavan. The drive was actually very beautiful and we passed only very small villages perched on the mountainside and forest/jungle. When we reached the halfway point there was some thunder and lightning and it rained for the rest of the trip. Phonsavan is a small town in the north of Laos about 150kms from the Vietnam border. We checked into our hotel, tried to find the lake and couldn't so we decided to have a beer instead. We had some dinner at the hotel and went to bed. The hotel has an interesting interior design theme going on. Due to the bombing of Laos by various countries there is a lot of UXO (unexploded ordnance) and the hotel has made use of this. There are huge bombs, guns, mortar shells, cluster bombs, mines, and various sizes of bullets decorationg the walls and dining room.