You know you are not in Laos anymore, but in China when:
- there is a super road system and barely a pothole in sight
- bureaucracy almost works and you ay rate the quality of the government service received by pressing either a smiles-button, or it's opposite
- you cannot read the signs along the road, and it seems strange (not like in Laos where you also can't read them but it does not bother you anymore, as the signs are so familiar)
- the agriculture dominated landscapes seems highly organized, every inch used and large scale production seeming to be the target;
- you're not allowed to go on the express highway with your motorcycle, although we snuck through two tolls;
- your internet blog site is blocked but tanks to Conny's Technical savvy this only stopped our blog updates for a couple of days;
Monday we crossed the border to China at Boten and in the meantime learned already so many things. We headed out early but of course didn't remember that on the Chinese side the clocks are ahead by one hour. Like every bike gang we of course did not hesitate to bypass the long queue of heavy trucks and zoom to the front of the que right before the border crossing. Thanks to Horsts quick thinking and cunning we managed to get past the Lao Boarder check point with the bike and all exit stamps.
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