Seat belts? We don't need no stinking seat belts!

Katherine getting in to our most common type of transport, the ubiquitous tuk-tuk. From the embassy to our house costs about 10,000 kip, or a little less than $1. However, the cost for Lao people is probably something more like 2,000 kip ($0.20). It is funny when we hail a tuk-tuk, they usually quote a pretty high price to start, until we start arguing with them in Lao, at which point they understand that we aren't tourists. There seems to be a 3-tiered pricing system. Highest price for tourists, middle price for local Falangs (white people, literally means French), and low price for Lao. We've met a young guy named Djoy who runs a tuk-tuk out of his brothers tire repair shop near our house. So now we have his cell number and call him up when we need to go somewhere. We have door to door service, just like a car service in the states.