Caught the night train to Nong Khai - quite rackety. It poured down in the night and the train went very slowly. A group of railway police had a party in the dining car and drank all night. They were still pouring bottles of beer when the train finally got to NK two hours late at ten o'clock in the morning. A big fat cook had to steer them out of the door.
In NK took a tuktuk to the border where we went through a series of checkpoints each designed to extract a different sum of cash: $35 for a visa, plus an extra $1 - because it was Friday? 100 Bt for completing the paperwork, 10 Bt for permission to cross, 15 Bt for the bus ride across the bridge. Then finally through and into Laos.
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