Pakse, Lao Peoples Dem Rep Travel Blogs

A Non-Christmas-y but relaxing start to Laos
Dec 24, 2008 (15 photos)

... a boat back to Don Det :) After another relaxing afternoon on the island we booked up a bus and jumped on heading for Pakse (after an extremely overloaded boat from the island!).  That is where i am writing this from now.  Not much in this ...

Sampling the medical care of SE Asia
Apr 25, 2006

... money. Since I had to extend my visa for a minimum of seven days, I wasn't too worried about spending the extra time in Pakse. It seemed like a cute little town and the hostel was cheap and nice. And then I noticed that the stings or bites or whatever ...

Day 69
Nov 22, 2006 (3 photos)

Throughout the night I just sat there in my chair waiting for the bus to arrive in Pakse. It did just that soon after sunrise and as I piled off the bus I found Patrick and Samantha and asked what they fancied doing here. They wanted to go to a nearby ...

(Not) Painting The Town Red
Sep 12, 2006 (5 photos)

... but sounded like tofu so that's what we'll use. We went for a wander around the town with not a lot to see with Pakse being more of a transport hub to and from Thailand and to the south of the country. We did go investigate the local market though ...

Pakse
Mar 15, 2008 (4 photos)

... of arrival, the date of entry left blank, and my visa was issued to "Miss Cardiff" surname "Saka." Excellent.   And so into Pakse. It is difficult to know what to say about this place. It remained me a lot of Bedford. Like Bedford, it felt like ...

Pakse - Day 95
May 28, 2008

OK, so the mission to Bangkok commences today. Only 2 flights a week go from Pakse to Bangkok and I picked the wrong day, so the only option is to travel overland by bus. I first caught a bus with the locals to a small dock on the Mekong. We crossed the ...

Sleep Bus
Aug 3, 2008 (7 photos)

... . It was great fun as there were loads of backpackers on and everyone was drinking and having a laugh. We woke up in Pakse the next morning reasonably refreshed. I got a pretty decent nights sleep! It was lashing rain in Pakse but I insisted on walking ...

Motorcycling Around The Bolaven Plateau
Apr 26, 2008 (33 photos)

The mission my travel mates and I have chosen to accept is a four day motorbike ride around the Bolaven Plateau in southern Laos. This region is very near the Ho Chi Minh trail so we bombed the hell out it during the Vietnam war.  The country ...

Day 70
Nov 23, 2006 (2 photos)

... on the driving with me on the back. We got back to our guesthouse/restaurant for lunch and Arjen enquired about a bus back to Pakse. He needs the second of three rabies jabs after being bitten by a wild monkey in Vang Vieng! The trouble was he'd missed ...

Hanging Around
Sep 10, 2006 (4 photos)

... border I saw no need to hang around any longer waiting on the embassy to open tomorrow morning so booked my bus ticket to Pakse in the guesthouse with the guy telling me it left 5pm which I took as the correct time seeing as I'd seen it advertised at ...

Chapter 39: Si Phan Don
May 20, 2004 (14 photos)

... , the lush backpacker bungalow haven, and Don Khon, which is similar to Don Det but has a few more attractions. We took a sawngthaew from Pakse to Hat Xai Khun, and then found a boat owner to ferry us across the river to Don Khong for 50 cents each. It ...

Threesome !!!
May 28, 2006 (12 photos)

... out with chicken on a stick, but no lightly grilled grasshoppers on a stick. This country had gone soft !!! Eventually, we arrived in Pakse. As we drove in, I saw some things that I recognised, even the hotel I last stayed in. It was a quite clean place. ...

Lone Wolves of Laos - Biking the Bolaven Plateau
Dec 24, 2008 (44 photos)

... beautiful...  and now we're officially waterfalled out! From there it was only an hour's ride into Pakse, so we headed back through the traffic of the city to return our bikes, eat some Indian curry ( ...

That's a wiffy sounding temple
Nov 15, 2005 (24 photos)

... doesn't give them more than passing credit for in most cases. A couple of other things are interesting about Pakse itself. Firstly, like most Asian nations, the Laotians are pretty nationalistic and fly their flag everywhere - on homes, ...

Enter Laos
Mar 22, 2005 (12 photos)

Here we are in Pakse, Laos, where we have been for several days. Our last week in Cambodia would have to be one of the nicest we spent there. From Siem Reap, we sped southeast to the town of Kompang Cham, in an attempt to catch a connection to our next ...

Back to the town of nothingness
Sep 14, 2005

... Vientiane for after our trip. Later that evening we found ourselves eating again, as there really isn't much else to do in Pakse and played "Yannif" in order to say farewell with memories. The next day we said goodbye to Eve & Lauren (Gordon Blur), ...

Border crossing from Thailand to Laos
Feb 16, 2005 (9 photos)

... place. First impression on Lao food Can I just say I'm in heaven whenever I have a cup of those amazing Lao coffee? The plateau around Pakse cultivates coffee beans and you can get them for about $1 USD a kilo! The Lao coffee is similiar to the ...

Southern dusty towns, waterfalls+an elephant
Jul 15, 2004

A 'luxury' overnight bus ride later and I had travelled from Vientienne down south to Pakse, a smallish town with one main road and lots of dust. It was a good place to use as a jumping off point to the Bolovens Plateau, an area to the east near the ...

real motorcycle diaries
Jul 24, 2007 (7 photos)

... from the place a little but its still very nice.       Stopped at a petrol station outside of Pakse and comically, whether through exhaustion or just general idiocy I'm not sure, brought the bike to a halt then felt it begin to ...

Champusak Region - Pakse
Jul 16, 2005 (3 photos)

We gratefully left Done Kong and headed via mini-van to Pakse narrowly missing a long black snake (on 2 occasions) crossing the road. Pakse was another place with not a lot to do it's more of a jump-off point for the areas we'd just been to. Our guesthouse ...

Overtime at the border
Sep 10, 2005 (1 photos)

... approached us and pointed proudly towards his car, that clapped out thing went through our minds, but we smiled back and negotiated a price. Pakse, here we come, hang on, the door won't close properly, don't worry about that sir, we'll be there in an hour ...

Our first Lao truck/bus
Jan 21, 2008

... - ask me again how fun it is once I've been on one for 10 hours at a stretch! We are only staying in Pakse for tonight, and then heading northeast to a small village called Tat Lo where we are planning to see the Bolaven Plateau (coffee, ...

Pakse- Pakse
Feb 21, 2008 (18 photos)

... , We have now reached Pakse, which is the last major town in Laos before we head southwards to the 4000 islands and Cambodia. Pakse is a mid sized town however it seemed very, very sleepy. We have found that the further and further south you go in Laos ...

pakse again
Jun 10, 2006

... Lao guy approached the bus and asked us all if we had passports? Odd, we thought, were only going to Pakse. Then he produced a moneybelt! Another Lao guy was talking to him, apparently this other guy had found it but didnt speak English and had asked the ...

Pas Maries, que...
Jan 19, 2008 (13 photos)

... of our garden. Still we've once again only got a cold shower and although it's hot enough outside nothing beats a real shower. Pakse is a good crossroads point for visiting quite a few areas and even going on treks (if they we're not so damn expensive). ...

Stuck in the mud in the Bolaven Plateau
Aug 8, 2009 (12 photos)

For our last day in Pakse we hired a private driver for a half day trip to explore the Bolaven Plateau.  The plateau is famous for three things; coffee, tea and some of the best waterfalls in South East Asia.  Most of Laos agriculture is carried ...

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Apr 12, 2007 (2 photos)

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The Oh-so-suicidal Pai Mai Lao
Apr 18, 2007 (19 photos)

... was to avoid the neverending, and by this point, overtired and overused waterfight, scooting up and around the Bolaven plateau between pakse and the vietnam border (the start of the Ho Chi Minh trail, incidentally). The day was scorching, and I must ...

Back to Nature
Sep 22, 2006 (6 photos)

... and took my bike to visit a bunch of water falls around the Bolaven Plateau. The bnest part of the waterfalls was getting to them. The Lao people have knocked up ladders and dodgy bridges so we can get to the bottom of the falls. On the way home a bug( ...

Lao Trippin'... Err, Flyin'
Apr 20, 2007

... . Lacking a Cambodian visa, I took the easy route: airprop. The plane itself was fairly cool. Lao airlines essentially runs two airplanes out of Pakse, one Chinese, and one Canadian turboprop. The Chinese plane I boarded was fairly run of the mill, but ...