Testing the HIGH SPEED Bullet Train in LAOS! 🇱🇦

In at this time’s episode, we check out the Laos-China high-speed bullet prepare connecting northern Laos to southern China. This undertaking was accomplished in 2021 and since then Laos has seen a spike in Chinese language vacationers, particularly within the metropolis of Luang Prabang the place we begin our journey. In the present day I’m with Nodoka from Osaka, Japan, whom I met at my hostel. We had a protracted chat in Japanese, and I later assisted her in reserving the bullet prepare tickets from my good good friend @jptravelandmore from the Philippines. The ticket system is slightly sophisticated because you want a Laos telephone quantity, however you possibly can all the time ask an area or somebody you realize. If not most hostels/tourism workplaces supply tickets at a barely increased worth. We paid 350,000 KIP per ticket which is slightly underneath $16 for a 3 hour experience between Luang Prabang and Vientiane, the Laos capital.

When arriving on the station we had been greeted by a singing Chinese language man. After having fun with his pretty efficiency we had time to take a look at the place. We had some respectable Laos meals, then proceeded to enter the station, which in actuality seemed like a world airport. It is model new, however you may inform they put in lots of effort in making it stunning and handy for all vacationers irrespective of area or background.

Contained in the prepare, that they had regular bathrooms in addition to squatting bathrooms, chargers with varied plugins, and choices to buy meals and drinks. In the meanwhile the prepare goes between Kunming, China, and Vientiane, Laos. I’d suggest utilizing this service when you plan on touring to Laos. The costs are truthful, actually we paid the identical quantity to go by bus which takes 3 occasions as lengthy and the Laos roads are horrible as nicely!

Once we acquired to the capital of Laos we arrived at a karaoke-singing Vietnamese lodge for $5 with a pool and breakfast buffet included. We spent the previous few hours of the night time on using round in radio vehicles on the native night time market. Vientiane is not a really stunning or spectacular metropolis, most deem it skippable, however I figured spending half a day there would not harm.

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0:00 intro
1:31 lunch earlier than the prepare
6:40 going to the station
8:55 boarding the prepare
9:44 contained in the prepare
13:03 arriving in Vientiane
13:22 our hostel..
14:17 RADIO CARS!!!
16:04 outro

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