The road tracklog
From Luang Namtha to Huay Xai
From 16/02 to 18/02/2009

The 15/02 was a short driving morning to head back to Luang Namtha to publish pages of my website and to lunch at the Boat Landing Restaurant. Then I moved towards the border stopping at the south of the city to bivouac peacefully.

Lunch at the edge of Tha River 
Luang Namtha 
15/02/2009 

The 16/02 was a quiet driving day up to Huay Xai at the edge of Mekong River where a ferry crosses it to go to Thailand. The road roved in the mountains by a very beautiful day on a road with a good coating whose some sections were under repair. While arriving at the target I took reference marks of immigration and customs as well as the cost of the ferry. Then I looked for a parking for the night that I found on a carpark behind a market.

The 17/02 was the before last day in Laos. The border town does not offer any sights worthy of interest, except ae blow of heart in Wat Khonekeo Xaiyaram where a strange consultation of a monk took place hidden under a small tent!

 
 
Hiden consultation  an oracle
Wat Khonekeo Xaiyaram 
17/02/2009 

Port ferry passengers 
Huay Xai 
17/02/2009 

The last image of the communist Laos was a procession of monks at dawns to receive alms of food given by villagers in front of their house kneeling on bitumen thus they acquire merit for their reincarnation.

 
 
Alma procession
Huay Xai 
17/02/2009 

Alms procession 
Huay Xai 
17/02/2009 

The 18/02 I left Laos. As of the opening of the Immigration Office which is at the port passenger ferry I made stamp my passport then I went to the port vehicle ferry where the customs Office is to make fill the exportation voucher of the Carnet de Passage en Douane. Finally I presented myself at the ferry for the loading of which I had paid the cost, $36 (Thailand monopoly obliges) the day before to book a place.
After crossing the Mekong River I took again my truck to head to the checkpoint of Thailand look at the travelog of Thailand.