Pakbeng Travel Blogs

After spending a delightful night at Pakbeng, enjoying a lovely dinner with a bunch of people from different parts of the world and going through the night without electricity rummaging through the darkness for my torchlight (courtesy of our guesthouse), we woke up the next day with hearts (and bod…

Today we were up early to grab breakfast and head to the port to catch the slow boat. The trip to the port oy took a few minutes. We had to queue to depart through border control in Thailand first. After getting our departure stamps in our passports we made our ay down to the dock ... Well it wasn'…

Despite our tummy troubles in Pai, we held up pretty well with our 8-9hr trip to Chiang Kong. We got up pretty early the following morning to get a boat over to Loas, get our visas and sort out cruising tickets down the Mekong for 2 days. Since Neil had done the trip before (a…

While in Chiang Mai, two days before we cross the Thai-Lao border in Chiang Khong, Northern Thailand, we already booked our tickets for the slow boat to Luang Prabang, Laos. We took the slow boat package plus overnight stay in a CK guesthouse.  The boats leave at around 9am so w…

Is it a bad sign when you can't sleep if you don't drink whisky? I think it is, but that's what happened last night anyways, so the 8 hours on the slow boat today seemed like it would last an eternity. We leave the hostel early, and it's not a bad place, for the price, it has a hot shower, whi…

So we are now making the long journey to the Thai border. Thankfully we are doing by a boat rather than spending two days on a minibus!!! The boat is like a really big narrow boat so you can get up and walk around. The scenery is gorgeous! All mountains along the river bank and loads of jungle. We …

I got up at 06:30 and was just in time to see some monks going around the streets for alms. After breakfast I checked out of the guesthouse and walked to the slowboat pier. At 08:00 I'm the first to buy a ticket for 200.000 Kip. Yesterday I was told that the slowboat leaves at 10:00 and by someone …

ANDREI - A brief interlude in our 2 day boat trip down the Mekong River.  Not the best of settlements, but has a number of bars and restaurants (inmcluding a 3rd generation Indian one!).All the guesthouses touted for business as soon as we stepped off the slow boat, so we went with one for 40,…

It's a little disconcerting that an hour in to the trip, the boat starts to rock madly from side to side, sounding like the propeller is grinding against rocks.  You'd be inclined to just accept that this is normal, and everything will be alright except for the fact that locals were praying, a…

Starts 6 oktober 2006 end 15 oktober 2006

In 2007 I went backpacking in South East Asia with a good friend of mine. We've spend 6 weeks visiting Thailand, Laos and Cambodia.

From Chaing Mai in Thailand we made our way to Laos on an epic three day adventure.  Day 1- 5 hou bus ride, Day 2 and 3- the "slow boat" to Laos along the Mekong River.  The scenery was amazing.  We stopped along the way to pick up pigs, dogs, and other various supplies!

Luckily i woke naturally on time. Bought myself two baguettes, a whole packet of Oreos and water. Checked the internet and was horrified to find out the Springboks and Proteas had both lost! And in addition, Tech N9ne, my favorite hip-hop artist was playing in England for the first time while i was…

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slowboat van huay xai naar pakbeng genomen. De boot zit overvo (met toeristen natuurlijk). eigenlijk de hele dag op de rivier. prachtig landschap. Pakbeng heeft alleen stroom van 6 tot 10 s'avonds, dan gaat het licht uit.