Pakse Travel Blogs

The woman in the motorbike hire place charges me five dollars for the broken wing mirror. No worries, I expected it to be more. I leave the bike, my reliable three-day partner in crime, with a wistful farewell pat. Then it's time to liberate my backpack from storage and get down to the VIP bus …

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…

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...

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 wi…

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.

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 squ…

Hier is het reisschema.

Experience Laos along and from the Mekong river.

Starts 6 oktober 2006 end 15 oktober 2006

A month or so in Thailand, with lots of rock-climbing and sun worship followed by a look around Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos and maybe more...

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

Off the deep end.

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 countle…

My first time start-to-end backpacking trip and my first time in a tropical country... and it was great! We first took a boat up north to a fishing village and then went down to beautiful Luang Prabang, next to partytown Vang Vieng and finally to Vientiane. The overnight bus brought us to Pakse with an impressive two day jungle treck through Xe Pian NPA. After a stay at the 4000 islands we crossed the border to Phnom Penh and the temples of Angkor and went back from Saigon.