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VIP Bus

After not really over paying for a bus ticket and a tuk-tuk ride to the bus station I got on the bus that I thought looked most like it was going to Vientiane. This would be my first overnight bus I've taken and when i got inside and looked at the seats I wasn't impressed. It wasnt dirty or anything it just wasnt built for western size people. the seats were super close together and i pretended i didnt know that i had a seat number and picked a spot by the window. Not like anyone else was paying attention to the seat numbers though either. Eventually the bus filled up with a bunch of local people and we were on our way. About 30 seconds outside of the bus station it came to a hault and a man came in the front door. He looked around for a second and then walked over to a girl who was in her 20's and grabbed her arm and her bag and dragged her off the bus. Im hoping that they actually knew each other and that she will be ok because she didnt really seem to be putting up a fight and no one else stepped in. 10 seconds later another local hopped over and took the newly opened seat.
We continued on our way, a couple mins later they turned on the TV at the front of the bus and proceeded to blast Asian music videos. I asked the lady beside me if that would go on all night but she didnt really speak english but gave me a friendly no answer.
So I put my headphones in and tried block out the noise.
Dosing in and out of sleep at one point in time I noticed that the music had stopped an some point in the night.
At about 1:00 am the bus stopped in front of a building in the middle of no where and everyone got up and left the bus. Confused I just expected that it was  a bathroom break but I didn't have to go so I planned to go back to sleep. Then the lady beside me motioned that  I was supposed to get off the bus and then demonstrated eating.
Confused I followed her off the bus and she took my ticket, ripped half off and gave it to a guy working at the place. He then came back with a bowel of noodle soup.
Dinner time I guess?
I think I could have done without the midnight dinner and probably paid a bunch more for it with the ticket but I was too tired to care.
I got back on the bus and to my horror they started up the music videos again. Eventually I fell asleep and woke up about every 30 min after that.
At about 6:30 we made it to one of the Vientiane bus stations and like all the other ones we got mobbed by tuk-tuk drivers trying to sell us a place to stay and take us to the city center.

Again sorry for the lack of pictures.

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