I woke up early and had a shower then I went upstairs and ate my remaining noodle packet using the hot water they have for tea and coffee. I checked my email and Georgia the girl from Vang Vieng had made it to Hanoi with no visa problems but now I already had my flight booked so I emailed them to see if they could cancel. I ate breakfast of the omlette and packed up. It was 7.45 and I got an email back saying they were shut for the weekend and I should call the airport number, but I needed to go to get my bus and this time I walked straight down the road which was smoother than the other road. I stopped at a phone shop and bought a sim which took a while as the guys English was not so good but it meant I could phone the airline. I was running a bit late now as I needed to get there by 8.30 and I got to the main road and had to go over a bad bit of road. I checked my suitcase and it was in bad shape, one wheel was falling apart and a screw looked to be loose. At the minibus station they told me they were full and I should go to the other bus station where a bus goes at 8.30. I rushed across and was just in time to get the bus which was 10k cheaper and pretty empty, a win win. The bus went quickly with only a couple of stops one where I bought some plain rice for 5k and talked to a German man from Berlin. When we arrived at 4pm he asked to share a tuk tuk which was just 10k but we ended up with other people as well. I got off in the main area and the first guesthouse was called Nice and had rooms for 60k. An American girl got there just before me and also got a room and we talked about getting motorbikes for the next day. I went out and she had a rest. The town was pretty small but I had bookmarked a few places and went to a few travel shops first which all had automatic bikes for 100k and manuals for 80k. There was a good bakery where I got some bread cakes for 5k and I ate one and walked to a temple. There was a wedding on the way so I walked through as it hadn't started yet. The temple was ok and I left and headed to a stupa which was up a hill where the views were ok. I went back down the other side oast a few small wooden houses and made it to the main road which I had to walk along s bit before I could go up the hill on the other side which had gravestones. At the top was supposed to be a monument and there was s big stone but there was lots of construction work around it. I went back down into town past the guesthouse through the main area of town and came to a temple. I went through it and theb there was another wedding place and I continued past a Laos airlines shop which would have been useful to maybe cancel my ticket. I got to a museum next and beside it a cultural centre which was being built. There was a statue in front and the sun was going down with its usual orangey red colour. I went round the rest of the town but there was not much to see and back to the guesthouse where I patched my suitcase up a little. Then I went out to get some food and tried to find some street food but there was none although I did find an internet place . The sky was red so hopefully good weather tomorrow and I settled for a restaurant where they had a plate of fried food with bread. I hoped it was enough protein as I'd been neglecting that a bit recently. It was pretty good and was only 15k. I grabbed some large biscuits from the bakers and went back to the guesthouse. I was going to get my cable and usb and go use the internet a bit and then tomorrow go around the plain of jars on a motorbike before going to Vientiane on the night bus one shop had told me was 150k. Unfortunately as I was eating the biscuit I bit down on something hard like a stone. It wasn't good and when I fished it out it looked s lot like a bit of tooth so I went to the room and washed my mouth out and I was missing sone of my tooth which I had had a ceramic cap done to 10 years ago. It had been an expensive process with two visits to get finished and here I was in Laos. Still I could do with tesearching dentists online now as well so I got the cable but I couldn't find my usb. Did I leave it in Luang Prabang, certainly it had been in the computer at the internet shop and I had inserted it in the back. I looked again but couldn't find it. In these situations with a flight in 3 days I was trying to cancel, a broken tooth and a lost usb with lots of photos and videos on I tend not to feel too good, but I stopped myself from just moping and I at least did a bit more on my suitcase, looked up DIY dentistry and the superglue I had used on my shoe was unsurprisingly not recommended and I wrote this blog. I read a bit before going to sleep still undecided on tomorrow but possibly going back to Luang Prabang on an 8.30 bus. Faith the American meanwhile was doing a tour so I wasn't letting her down.
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