today we are taking the train from Luang prabang to Vientiane which is the capital of Lao in the
last couple of videos you've probably seen us exploring Central luang prabang as well as a bit
more of the outskirts which we did in a hilarious little electric vehicle it was just it was so cute
so this train is brand new it was only opened in December of last year and I think that's why it's
such a kerfuffle to get these tickets we couldn't actually buy them ourselves and even the hostel
owner here couldn't buy them because he is from Vietnam you have to be a person from Lao or China
to buy these tickets so we had to get a man to go over to the station with our passport details
and get the tickets for us and now we have a very official looking document that I think
should be okay it's got our names on it so I'm pretty hopeful that this will get
us to Vientiane today now the fact that we had to get a man to get a man to
for us makes me a little bit uneasy whether whether these are gonna get us on the train
properly or whether we're gonna have to show like a laotian passport but anyway we'll see what
happens but luckily since we did book through a man that got a man we do get also transport
from our hotel here to the train station which should be coming I think any moment now so good
got enough bags? um one two three four yeah I think we've got enough
bye room you were so good to us I've Loved this place it's been a really nice hotel
really good value for money if you're coming to Luang Prabang bye-bye
bye
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that girl is so cute oh adorable
all right yeah wow okay look at that it's huge Building looks insane wow wow so the girls were
saying in the taxi just then that they're very strict on what you can take on the train so they
scan your bag for aerosols and sharp objects we've got a lot of those well a lot of them
not sharp objects it's got a lot of aerosols hopefully they won't take them but we'll see we
flew into Thailand with them and then we crossed the border into Lao with them also so yeah it
would be a bit frustrating I can't use the handle because it'll just snap off let's do this oh yeah
wow look at the size of it that's such a cool looking building wow that is really cool
let's see how this goes I think we need to put a mask on okay step one
step one masks on, go through security see what they say
okay like they said
no sprays no aerosols no flammable aerosols loads of things you aren't allowed to bring like sharp
things we don't have any weapons drugs sharp things but we did have some hairspray in some
deodorant so hopefully we can buy some new hairspray and deodorant in Vientiane it doesn't
seem like there's much shops or anything in here looks like just one big waiting room
for a brand new train station the PA system sounds like they're just going
hey I can't understand a single word that she said I think we'll just wait until everyone else gets
up and then we'll we'll head off yeah we've got a seats seat number so it's fine trains arrived it
looks super modern wow looks really nice all right let's see if we can get on the train looks so
cool is it yeah I'm really excited I'm excited and this saves us eight hours of traveling the
bus would take 10 hours there's only six eight ah this uh it takes one and a half or two so that's
worth it tickets themselves were only like 240 000 Kip that's a bargain okay gates are open let's go
pretty orderly actually it was quite slow we need to go to Carriage number five
okay we're not sat together
ladies and gentlemen be seated according to the seat number on your secrets and other items
pretty packed on here I don't think there's a single empty seat here anywhere which is nice to
see no wonder you have to get someone to come here to pick up the ticket for
you we definitely would not be able to just turn up and buy one we're going
the ladies sat next to me didnt want to go backwards there's a few seats pointing this way a few seats pointing this way
we're currently going backwards I don't feel queasy when I go
backwards no on a train but now we can sit together but now we can sit together
I was looking forward to talking to the lady next to me to be honest we've been talking to
each other for so long now I've heard all your stories I tell them over and over and over it's
always the same stories but you just pretend that they're entertaining every single day just nod
we've secured the goods there's a fish on it but
it's not fish it's dried banana or appears to be dried banana
I was hoping they'd be slightly salted but they're not
we're going through a lot of tunnels. Tunnels for a few minutes, then about 10 seconds of light then back in tunnels
as we're trying to post 2-3 times a week now I have to try and fit in the editing any time i can get now
try and finish the latest video shall We There was a beautiful really nice looking englishly
randomly looked a little bit like Switzerland before we're in a tunnel again I'm just going to
give you a quick tour even though it's quite dark in here right now so it's a very comfortable seat
there's not much else to show you there is a table for each seat there's a shop very stylish shop
that sells two things sandwiches dried bananas oh and water three things there is also Chargers and
usb chargers right below every single seat which is fantastic in my books the train isn't very long
probably long in length but it's not long in distance/time
which means that you can just work on here charger things I'm comfortable I'm happy it's good
ladies and gentlemen hey let's go station please take it looks like
we're about half an hour from the middle of town though in the taxi
yeah were here
there's no way anyone's not paying for a ticket here they check them probably
check them about three or four times now taxi taxi
because you can join us we go faster okay okay yeah some other guys want to split a taxi with
us so that saves on cost I think what's your name? Ofer. yeah I'm Dylan nice to meet you Dylan
are you a vloggers yes trying to yeah nice oh it's just chaotic trying to Vlog
something like this you know yeah you never know what's going to happen yep
thank you thank you
whoa oh whoa it's huge it's that's a whole apartment
um did she upgrade us I don't know
wow this is so nice love the mini bar already look at this yes wow that's the first I checked
downstairs is there a fridge in here somewhere yeah fridge and freezer yes okay there's loads
of chocolate because I checked the price for this one I haven't had have I had chocolate for ages I
don't think I've had any chocolate for ages this is a well stocked mini bar did you see how many
chocolates they were in there yeah they're gonna be gone we were between two different hotels and
one of them it wasn't sure whether the window was actually facing outside world or whether it was
just facing a wall slash maybe a fake window whereas this one we thought if we book with a
balcony it will definitely have a balcony but wow look at this we can sit here and eat our chocolate
let's check the bedroom it's got a microwave wow okay there's what! there's a washing machine
wait is this private do other people have access to this this is a bathroom probably
wow this is huge so this is the closet then yeah happily we have a washing machine whoa whoa
look at the size of it this place is huge okay super bargain considering how much was it
so it was 140 US dollars but I've just seen on the receipts now for four nights so that
works out at what 35 a night yeah which is pretty good apartment because we had looked
around a lot for places in Vientiane and the quality wasn't great for what we needed
um this one ticked all the boxes had a pool and on First Impressions it's it's lovely yeah
I I am actually quite shocked how amazingly well stocked this essentially whole apartment is yeah
for that cost and it's called urbanite urbanites yeah and it's got a pool downstairs yay and a gym
bye
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