Ubon Ratchathani, Friday, December 28th, 2018

Yesterday we drove into Pakse on our motorcycle, and stayed at Pat’s house for the night. And today we set off to Thailand!

We got up early so that we could catch a Touk-Touk to the international bus station. Once there, Mom got two tickets to “Ubon Ratchathani” or just “Ubon” for short (Ubon is the city in Thailand where we were going to be staying).

We had to wait a little while for our bus to arrive, and the ride to the border was about an hour long. It certainly gave us time to get in some extra sleep! When we did get to the border though, we were both a bit frazzled. We just had to go in the directions that people told us to, and hope for the best. Actually crossing the border consisted of going through an underground tunnel (It confused me as well) and then getting our luggage checked. We then met our bus on the other side, and we were in officially in Thailand. They had the happiest black lab sniff the bus, and then we were good to go. Immediately I noticed differences from Laos, for one, all of the roads were paved whereas in Laos a lot of them are still dirt.

After about another hour drive, we arrived at the Ubon bus station and took a cab to our hotel. The hotel was really nice! It connected right onto a shopping centre that had a bunch of clothes and even a cinema!

Our room was just as nice. For dinner we went down to the restaurant in the hotel and had spring rolls. We also walked about the night market, that was right outside of the hotel. It was a fun day, Thailand definitely has a different atmosphere from Laos.
Sorry for the short post. Another one will be coming tomorrow and a lot more happened, so stay tuned!

*Word of The Day: Sawantee (pronounced: Sa – wa – tee), it means hello in Thai!