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Arrived in lovely Laos yesterday after a 10 hour overland trip from Vietnam, which all things considered was a great journey as it's the first time I was ever on coach where people were sitting in the aisles on plastic stools.
I've been on the road 4 months now and just starting to the think of my return home but not before I visit a few places. Since the new year I have been taking things easy and have been submerged in a lot of reading, something I was not able to do whilst doing activities, it has been the most peaceful time since I left. I have read some wonderful stuff but none more so than Hermann Hesse's Siddharatha, now I am not saying it was an enlightening experience but the book summed up and answered me so many questions in its simplistic story. It has been so good to be away from newspapers and television for a period of time as it gives you time to appreciate the natural beauties around like the sound of birds and being in Laos just 24 hours to admire their way of life which is what you might call unhurried and stress free.
Going to head south to a few remote places in the next few days to see some rural life and visit a few small villages.
Life is wonderful and full of mysteries and sometimes it is pointless to fathom out why such things are as they are. Indonesia was the most baffling of places with so many occurrences as to why things happen none more so whilst I was in padangbai and went to the tourist office to ask a question and the immediate reply was "sorry no speak English" when I went outside and asked some people standing on the street corner they were only too happy to oblige and spoke perfect English, now don't get me wrong but I think the fella in the tourist office maybe in the wrong job!
"By not following or mimicking anybody gives you an immense feeling of freedom"
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