Don Det Vacations, Don Det Vacation Reviews, Tourism Guide

Had a nice lie in this morning and then had a wasted journey to the bank to change kip to US dollars ready for Cambodia, it being Saturday. I checked out at 12 midday and took my bag to the guest house one up from Pon's for a breakfast of sticky rice cooked with banana in coconut milk. There were boatmen playing board games by the river, waiting for passengers and when I asked them as I passed to the bank they said it would cost 40,000 kip to Don Det. I met two dread-haired guys at brea...

The 4000 islands is a place where the days agendas are a foreign concept and slow moving days are spent sharing stories in swaying hammocks overlooking the beautiful Mekong river.  Dominic and I met up with Finish Martin in every city we stopped in Laos with no plans to do so.  The oddest of the lot was when we bumped into him on a local bus from Vientiane to the Buddha Park, one of which leaves every fifteen minutes.  When we again randomly saw M...

Before Christine‘s flight to Bangkok she recommended us to make a stop at Si Phan Don in southern Laos, the region of the „Four Thousand Islands“. In this area the Mekong river fans out and forms a fascinating network of channels, rocks, sandbars and islets. This was the place we were now heading to. Our bus arrived in Pakse, the biggest city of the region, in the morning. It was only 8am, but already relatively hot…not mentioning the humidity. Honestly, I missed the cooler and ...

People i met here, who contributed to and improved my trip: Juliana (Russia), Jim (England), Chris (Holland) We caught a mini bus from the Laos border to a small village, from where we caught a motorised canoe to the island of Don Det. It is situated in Si Phan Don, which translates to 4000 islands, due to the many islands and sand banks littering the Mekong in this region. We spent the first day trying to relax in the sun by the small beach, but small flies made this pretty hard t...