good morning guys
it is so hard to crack a smile right now
because it's five o'clock in the morning
so tired and it is actually
quite warm already in the morning let me
show you the quick sun
rise we are about to take a 12 hour bus
ride
from vietnam to la ba border to do a
visa run in order to stay in vietnam for
longer so let this journey be in
come on
i'm so tired
i actually cannot believe how many
people are alive this morning at this
time and we're walking to find the
little stop where we're going to get
picked up by the minivan maybe we're not
getting in the minibus from here
so we're not actually getting the
minivan from here we're currently in a
taxi
on our way to dan nang which is where
we're gonna get the mini bus
we've just arrived in da nang and this
is lynn visas i guess office where we
are gonna be heading on the minivan to
start the journey 12 hours
excited
ford transit man
i think they might have too many people
trying to get in this minivan
there's too many vans here though maybe
maybe they've got two fully booked ones
good business good business lin visas
also offer a sleeper bus option we
really really was begging for the
sleeper bus so that we could lie down uh
the whole way and basically sleep but we
couldn't get it she said that 80 percent
of people said yes and 20 said no
the 20 percent of you who said no
what the hell were you thinking because
now you're stuck in this little van for
12 hours
good for you um but yeah they do have a
sleeper option available as well so try
and get that if you're trying to do the
e-visa run okay we've had some good news
but don't tell anyone
i've stood next to everyone currently
getting in the van so i'll feel a little
bit painful
we're actually not going to go in the
ford fan we're going to go in a car
so that's actually so much better
because we can sleep
yes thank you god if you are
a thing universe whatever you are
vip baby
this is us for the next
however many hours it's going to take so
i'll catch up with you at the first stop
because i'm going to get some sleep
so this whole journey went from hoi an
to da nang then to hue and then directly
to the laubau border it is said to take
around six hours for the whole journey
and we were one of the first people to
be picked up which means we're gonna get
dropped off last
oh get me some coffee
please
we just stopped at a
petrol station slash cafe toilet
to get some well-needed coffee we are at
half past nine just gone half past nine
so we've got
maybe another like two two and a half
hours to go to the border
we're gonna get there how are we feeling
i'm good how you feeling
good
we hopped back in the car once again and
headed for the road i felt so sorry for
the driver also this is lynn husband
he'd been up since half past three and
told us how tired he was which is not
what i wanted to hear but as we headed
further away from the city we got to the
mountainous area and i cannot explain
how beautiful the views were it was so
green so mountainous and just honestly
unbelievable
ah
second stop
it is what time is it
quarter past eleven we've made it to lao
bao so we're not far away from the
border
but we're gonna eat at this local
restaurant
uh
let's get something basically
she didn't they didn't ask what we
wanted but we got given this food so
you get what you give it i suppose
we've got a bit of shrimp
a bit of rib a bit of egg some beans and
rice and then some
soup which i have god knows what
in it
this was
thirty thousand baht
oh no not bad dong thirty thousand
so we're literally just walking to the
border now with passports visas and
passport photos
it's right here i'm going to turn the
camera off just in case i get taller but
it's right here
that was pretty simple just checkpoint
number one done looked at our passports
and stumps and now we're through
on to the next
we're now heading for this building as
you can see there's loads of lorries
loads of people down there i think we'll
probably get checked again down here
um because we are crossing from vietnam
to lao
lao laos
laos
so as we're walking through this
building this is where we're leaving
vietnam and lynn is on the other side
waiting for us we just handed over our
passports to the desk and we literally
just had to wait here for about 30
minutes for it to come back to us being
with lim was really useful because she
got us right to the front and got them
to process it as fast as she could got
the passport back now following lynn to
go to lao
good old baby goat
i'm a cat hi
still walking
this whole thing's been a lot of walking
and a lot of waiting so be patient
so we just got our visa for lau
and now we're gonna re-enter back into
vietnam we already
did our e-visa before we arrived
so now we're gonna go check back in go
back in to vietnam
welcome to vietnam
and here we are we're finished how many
hours has that taken us we are not
finished we are about sixty percent of
the way okay we gotta embark on the
journey home which is gonna take about
five six hours
so technically we're not finished
so i'll catch up with you when i'm back
to summarize the whole experience of
what
you have
two
face hello i'm back and it is actually
the next day so it's yesterday we did
the visa run and i'm recording this
today because honestly when i got back i
was so exhausted i had nothing left the
whole journey took about 14 hours in
total so it was a very very long day so
if you are gonna do the border run just
be prepared that it's gonna be a long
day and you just gotta be patient so at
the minute vietnam is only offering
either 15 days or 30 days to foreigners
if you come on arrival and you're from
the uk you'll be granted only 15 days
but if you apply for an e-visa in
advance then you get 30 which is what we
did depending on the country that you're
from will depend on how long you get to
stay in vietnam but it's either 15 or 30
days
and with or without a visa depends so
let's talk about lynn visa so i found
lynn on facebook and from the get-go the
conversation has been very efficient
she's always responded to questions the
whole thing was just amazing and i would
highly recommend it you can do the
border road on your own but for me i'm
the kind of person that just wants to
pass over everything to someone else let
the professionals handle it i'll just go
there be there and get back so a couple
of days before the board of run we
applied for our e-visas using this
website this is the website you'll need
to also register for your e-visa
it's pretty simple just update your
passport passport picture and it cost 25
us dollars it took about three to four
days to come back so just make sure that
you apply for it in advance so then when
you go through to the loud border and
you get your visa you'll go to the place
where it says visa on arrival lynn
handles everything she did all the
documents beforehand but all you've got
to do whilst you're there is pay 45 us
dollars you can either pay in usd or you
can pay in dong and then they'll just
convert it on top of that you also pay a
hundred thousand dong for an entry and
exit stamp at the lao border and then
you pay lean her face so whether you
choose to go in the shade van or the
sleeper van it will depend on the price
but if you go for the shared van which
is what we did that we didn't
technically do that we still paid for
that it was 36 us dollars honestly
is worth every single penny like it was
such a seamless process lynn took care
of absolutely everything literally all
we had to do was stand there give our
passports queue up wait and do the same
on the way back it was very very simple
yeah it was a very very long day so he
prepared for that honestly it was really
exhausting but
30 days extra in vietnam so cannot
complain 100 recommend lynn visa we'll
put a link to her facebook website
whatever she's got in the link in the
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