QV424 arrived in VTE at 1630. The Lao Airlines office closed at 1600. Since I had little time the following morning, I wanted to find the Lao Airlines office that evening. An inquiry at the Lao Plaza conceirge yielded the information that the office was about 2.5 blocks away on the other side of Vientiane's famous (but, not functional) fountain. I walked the route specified and could not find the office. Finally, I asked someone and they smiled and pointed across the street at the guard sitting in front of a building set off the street-the Lao Airlines building.

At promptly 0830 the next morning I was in front of the building reading the sign that said they opened at 0800.

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