Opening with Chinese Cars Abroad: The Laos Chapter (Part 11) – Hequ as a Trade Center
Opening with Chinese Cars Abroad
Not for Showing the Strength of Domestic Chinese Cars
Not for Yearning to Trek Miles and Miles
Just for Relaxed Leisurely Browsing
But Also for Injecting Vitality into a Simple and Repeated Life – Preface
Kaychan • Fuyew Han City – Hequ
February 23, 2019, Day 15 of Travel. After breakfast at the Salyuguan Hotel, we started our long-distance drive today. We drove along Highway 13 from south to north, and restaurants and fruit stalls always felt like they might be just around the corner, one wrong turn after another, leading us to a detour and overcoming fatigue.
Hequ
10:00 Arrival at Hequ. Hequ is the capital of Ganmeng Province, located on the left bank of the Mekong River, and is a major trading center and economic and cultural center of Ganmeng Province, as well as an important ferry city and transportation hub.
North
We drove slowly, arriving at North at 14:00. North is a town in Laos and the capital of Bolikansi Province, located on the banks of the Mekong River in central Laos. Because the opposite bank of North is Thailand, many people choose to enter Thailand from here, or use it as a transit station to Laos. However, whether entering Laos or Thailand, tourists need to take an outbound boat across the Mekong River to reach their destination.
Vientiane Night View
We arrived in Vientiane at 17:00 and checked back into the Backpacker's Garden Hotel, rested for a while, with the first lanterns rising, we followed the crowd and arrived at the real Vientiane Night Market. We wandered around randomly, bought a small coconut, and saw a dumpling shop, a landmark – the Beer Marking. Lots of small hot pot stalls. Vientiane's night market doesn't have much to buy, the only thing worth seeing is the paper-drawn monk, elephant, lotus flower, and life tree handicrafts – that little paper, I didn't see this size in Luang Prabang, they are all relatively large, this one in Vientiane sells for 10,000 kip, suitable for taking back to give as gifts.
