We arrived in Vientiane at around 4:30 in the morning and sat on a corner "downtown" waiting for everything to open. This town is easily the smallest capital of any country I've ever been to. I never saw a street sign in Laos until we got to Vientiane. There's not a lot of them, but every 10th intersection or so you might find one if you look carefully. We hung around a couple of days and I got a new tourist visa from the Thai embassy (they wouldn't give me the non-immigrant visa). Then we backtracked north by bus a few hours to go to Vang Vieng. Pictures From Vientiane...
 One of the main roads in town  A brochure about UXO in Laos 
 
 Random scenes from around town 
 The front and back of some 100 kip bills I pasted into my journal (worth about 2 cents each)  Me holding a thick wad of Lao bills  Beer Shampoo!  Vientiane bus schedule  A very classy restaurant... that we couldn't afford to eat at
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