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Three weeks in Laos. The first week was mostly about the people; a 3 day trekking in Bokeo provence and visiting lots of villages. The second week mostly consisted of wats and jars and the 3rd week was about boats and nature with Phu Hin Bun national park and a couple of the 4000 islands.

The Bolaven Plateau is the covered in coffee and tea plantations with beautiful waterfalls scattered throughout.  Paces is the main city in the area which makes it the typical stopping point for travelers heading south.  The town is quite bland.  However, the slow pace lowered my beggar guard which allowed for some interesting insight into daily small town life in Laos.  We found a nice cheap Korean BBQ restaurant where locals went for special occasions.  These ...

You would never believe that Laos is located between two visited countries such as Thailand and Vietnam, unless you go there and see it. Unlike those two countries, beautiful as well but much more tourist, Laos seems to belong to another planet. You´ll notice it by looking at the people. Children and adults will wave and smile to you not because they want to get something from you, but just because they are authentic. Laos is a jewel not found yet. Hopefully it will last forever...

  The journey back to Pakse was about 130km so we wanted an early start to avoid the blistering sun for as long as possible. We were on the road by 7:15 and even with stops for coffee every 30km or so we were back by 11:15. As far as the bike was concerned we had no problems but I'm sure this was too good to be true. Less than 500m from the hotel trouble struck again, thus time in the form of a puncture to the back tire. I managed to make get it back ok but was cursing our luck. T...

Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and beyond! We follow the heavy trailed backpackers path as well as making some new ones...!

People i met here, who contributed to and improved my trip: Juliana (Russia) We only spent 1 brief night in Pakse, which was long enough to book an onward bus to Vientiane later in the week and also to organise a trip to the nearby Bolaven Plateau. Other than an interesting concert in the main square, there was little else of interest that happened to me here.

On the bus from Savannakhet to Pakse, Cedric and I were getting extremely frustrated as it was a neverending ride, with continual stops every few kilometres to pick up more people even though th bus is already jam packed with both humans and wildstock. Along the journey, as it stopped countless times the bus was also inundated with little merchants trying to hawk their daily goods. It was quite bizarre as in neighbouring countries the locals wouldn't be jumping on the actual bus to s...

Off the deep end.

Experience Laos along and from the Mekong river.

Hopefully the first of many to come...Meet up with me to join Team AFD!

Following the mighty Mekong River upstream from Vietnam's flat delta to Thailand's Hilly interior. Visiting the best natural and architectural wonders, finding the best cities and best reasons to get fat in the region.

Starts 6 oktober 2006 end 15 oktober 2006

We have taken a flight from Vientienne to Pakze and then we boarded a bus to 4 Thousand Island.  Shit, the bus is an oversize tuk tuk.  There are a few different versions of tut tuks here, one is the motorbike tuk tuk, then there is the minibus tuk tuk which is has a car engine but with a bigger backside that caries about 10-12 people and then there is the one we travelled on down to the 4 thousand islands, which started out as a carrier of groceries, booze and locals plus us travel...

Shows what I knew, eh?

9/17/06 Well we woke up way to early and arrived at the airport and went through the most laid back security I have seen at an airport in a long while. We asked the girl at the counter to check on the status of our change request but of course, she couldn't and told us to ask at the reservation window. Cindy asked the girl at reservations who told her the computer was down and to check in Pakse. We were somewhat nervous of loosing our seats, so Cindy walked over to the international termina...