Route: Luang Prabang (Laos) - Kunming (China) 010415

Leave Vonchampa Guesthouse at 6.30am. Motortaxi pickup to the bus station 10k kipp.Bought the ticket the day before 490k kipp at was said the trip is for 24 hours. Bus to China - company from China - full with chinese or maybe some from Laos but felt like i was the only foreigner. First come first serve system for the beds. its either the couple be or the single. Lucky got the single for myself. The trick - there is always three single beds and three upper beds - the front single bed usually for drivers. so get there first and just sit and ignore everyone else unless they have proof it is their seat. The roads in Laos before the border was really bad in condition. It was under construction and hilly mountainous road. So imagine, they were like fixing or taring the roads and its like one way. So they had to close one side of the road and had to wait for the cars from the opposite direction to come. So, there were many stops like this. and there was just so many dusty sand dirt. many stops for toilets in the bushes and the ladies would just do the toilet in the bushes too. It was a boring ride. Chinese people in this bus are just not friendly or they are just simply shy to communicate. Didn't eat much too because they only stop at the places they want too. Only had cookies and bread for the whole trip. And of course along the way pick ups to fill up the bus. Arrived border at 5pm Check out from Laos 10k kipp. China immigration was so modern. Not many questions but may times the bags have to go through the bag scan. After entering China - some people leaves and new passengers come in. A stop by the police custom. Its kinda tight the military/police in China. sleep throughout the night. China time plus one hour from Laos. Woke up about 5am because the bus had some problem - stopped inside of the tunnel - Doing the fixing of the bus for two hours. In the morning - just cant sleep because everyone just talks loud. Arrived at Kunming Bus station at noon. Total travel trip 28hours. Longest trip I had been on. Crazy! Dusty! Dirt! Very Long Journey! Hungry! No communication with anyone! Welcome to China!