다낭발 비엔티안행 까지의 티켓

The pick up was fine and the driver made sure we got to the correct bus departure bay. There was some confusion over which bed/seat we could have but it worked out fine in the end. There were pillows and blankets so it was warm and comfortable. The driver was fast, but I didn’t feel unsafe at all. We made quite few toilet and food stops, which you could take or leave, though at the border we all had to get off and take our own luggage across. It was about 100 metres to the Vietnam border site and about 200 metres to the gas station pick up point. We made really good time after the 3 hour border wait/crossing and arrived in Da Nang about 1. 5 hours early. For me this was good as I continued onto Hoi An.

This was my first time traveling with a sleepeping bus (Vientiane - Da Nang), so I didn't know what to expect. The bus we had was not the newest and there wasn't too much space for my legs (I'm 190cm), but I could still sleep so I was fine with it. There were only me and 4 other travelers from overseas. The other people were all either from Laos or Vietnam. During the trip we stopped several times: mostly when the driver or the other local guys got hungry or had to go to toilet. Also we stopped at many locations where the locals picked up some products and huge bags of woods. So the back, the bottom and the top of the bus was full of woods and they were keep putting our bags and luggages into different part of the bus, as they needed the place for their woods and stuffs. We arrived to the border in the early morning but nobody woke us up or told anything as usual. The locals all left the bus and started their border crossing procedures and they only woke us up 0,5 -1 hour later. But couldn't tell us what exactly happening and where we have to go. By the way, I'm very surprised that there wasn't a single person amongst the locals who would speak at least a very little English. So we were just waiting outside with all our luggages until someone came from the border to take our passports and asked to follow him. After all the border crossing procedures we continued our way to Da Nang without any problem. But in the end they didn't take us to the Bus station near the main road(where they were supposed to), instead they dropped us 5 km away from there in a location where the local taxi drivers were already waiting for us. So we had no chance to get cash and sim card quickly near the main road and take a local bus conveniently. . . In general the trip was OK. I could sleep, cross the border and arrived to the city where I wanted and we arrived around 2 pm insted of 5 pm. But we could easily sense that the bus is running for the local people's favor, so they can stop when they need and they can deliver their woods and other products where they want. By the way, the bus didn't look like on their picture.