Kip

As a side note, we took out a ridiculous amount of Kip in Oudom Xai before venturing North because we thought we'd be spending some serious time there..and as I mentioned before, Kip is worthless everywhere but Laos.  Yesterday we trapped arriving tourists from Vietnam as they disembarked from their bus and offered better than bank exchange rates for their excess Dong.  I think we might be on to something..we made the Kip work for us. Not easy to do.  If finding a job doesn't work out when I return to the States I might return to Laos and do black market exchanges in the back of a sandwich shop.  They could use a good sandwich shop in Mong Khua.