Bus to Laos

So another long bus journey,
this time it's a sleeper bus,
two level bunks kind of comfey.
18 hours later, the next day, without much sleep, we arrive in Mengla near enough to the border with laos.
Get a bus to the border town, getting on 23 hours of traveling.
Check out of China and start walking to the Laos side,
spooky, not many people crossing at all, good thing I met up with a Finish couple on the bus. About 3km after the border there is a place to buy your visa and stamp it.
Laos is really a big change from China. China has loads of people, Laos not many at all. The border town consists of a restaurant and a bus station, which is a tiny open shed in a waterlogged field and guys playing cards waiting for enough people to arrive to fill a bus.
Waited a got a bus to Luang nam tha about an hour or two away.