International Bus from China to Laos

Photed from subway station
昆明南部客运站

We can't buy international bus tickets over 5 days before departure, and also can't buy go buck(from Laos) tickets in Kunming. It is very easy to buy international tickets, we always can buy tickets about half hour before departure. All Chinese train tickets have real name or passport number of own passenger but bus tickets don't have identified mark, nobody show identity card or passport in Kunming South Bus Station to buy ticket.

I asked a bus stuff to buy ticket instead of me, he bought the best seat to go to LuangPraBang. This No.29 seat at the center part of bus didn't have next seat and didn't bound so much. The road from China is very bumpy in Laos, it is painful especially at upper seat. Usually, international buses have a lot of vacant seats because the seats(beds) are very narrow and uncomfortable(It should be two beds per person), and Chinese embassy in Laos doesn't permit to apply for visa without go-buck air ticket from China, so all of Lao international students in China (over two weeks students, except who extended in China) have air ticket to go buck to home country.

International Bus from LuangPrabang to Kunming costs 425,000 kip, departure time is everyday 7:00 in morning.
From Kunming to LuangPraBang is 398 RMB, to Vientiane is 587 RMB.
Local Bus from LuangPraBang to Vientiane is 110,000 kip, You should buy ticket before departure day because staffs can say no bus at 110,000 kip and only have VIP bus at 155,000 kip. It is necessary to have enough time to know such things.

Timetable I saw at domestic bus station is as below:
From Vientiane to Luang prabang
110,000 kip - 6:30/7:30/8:30/11:14/16:30/18:30
150,000 kip - 8:00/9:00/19:30
From Luang prabang to Vientiane
110,000 kip - 6:30/7:30/8:30/11:00/13:30/16:00/18:00
130,000 kip - 8:00/9:00/19:30
150,000 kip - 20:00
But I don't know whether the time table shows the truth or not.

Naluang Southern Bus Terminal in LuangPraBang
Left:Domestic bus station
Right:International bus station (photoed from domestic bus station)