Savannakhet Province Bus Station—Savannakhet, Laos
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Ianatlarge
N 16° 34.512 E 104° 45.150
48Q E 473596 N 1832578
The smallish bus station serving the small city and province of Savannakhet, in southern Laos.
Waymark Code: WMCC7D
Location: Laos
Date Posted: 08/21/2011
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The city of Savannakhet (aka "Sav" or "Savn") is the second city of Laos, located in the south west of the country, on the Mekong River, with an estimated population of 120,000. Serving the transport needs of this city is a bus station, located ~3km north of the city centre.
I first saw this bus station a decade ago. At that time it was a an empty, gravelled field, with a few small huts serving the few buses using the station. There are still not an overly large number of buses using the facilities, but the bus station is new (in 2008 I saw the foundations being laid) and there is now a small restaurant and even a gift shop in the station. From here buses leave for the national capital Vientiane, to the Thai and Vietnamese border, to the far southern Laos city of Pakse (and on to Cambodia), and to the villages around Sav.
In design, fairly simple. A square building, with a waiting area, ticket counters, gift shop, food, and behind, the buses pull in. The station has the usual bevy of tuk tuks waiting for passengers, and there is even a small hotel (a line of huts) along one side of the station grounds. Progress.
There are English language signs aplenty here, but the spoken type of English, not so much. Be prepared to use expressive body language and your repertoire of pantomime. Waymark made at the 'in' entrance to the station.
Note that Sav is directly opposite the Thai city of Mukdahan (over the Mekong River), and that the two are connected by the Japanese built 'Friendship 2 Bridge". As there is now a casino in Sav, hordes of Thais travel across the bridge to give their money away on weekends and holidays (gambling is illegal in Thailand, thus Cambo, Burma and Laos—all good communist countries—have casinos at each and every border crossing for use by Thai folk).
Food and drink?: yes
Restrooms?: yes
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