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- Vientiane
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- Kip (LAK)
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Pakse Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Pakse, Lao Peoples Dem Rep
A Non-Christmas-y but relaxing start to Laos
This is a top pick! ... for 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 ...
Getting friendly with Pakse
This is a top pick! ... once we get there we are all too hot to walk up tons of stairs, so we give it a miss and drive back to Pakse. (naughty tourists!) On return we do mundane stuff (laundry ect) and then meet Judith for dinner at an amazing Indian restaurant ...
Getting to know Pakse
This is a top pick! ... is covered in ants and strange purple fungi. On the way back up, we walk the long way round. Back at Pakse we treat ourselves to dinner on a rooftop restaurant of a swanky hotel full of fat miserable middle ...
Having a full blown relationship with Pakse
This is a top pick! ... We get up and get on the boat (after waiting a while) to take us to the mainland, very much looking forward to returning to Pakse. When on the mainland, we wait again for the bus to show up. While we wait the guys at the port entertain us by playing shit ...
Meeting Pakse
This is a top pick! 23/10/2011: Its a 5-6 hour journey to Pakse, depending on stops and breakdowns, and there is a French guy going the same way do we share a tuk-tuk to the bus terminal. He chats to the driver who speaks fluent French; an over hang ...
Sampling the medical care of SE Asia
This is a top pick! ... 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
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Pakse - Day 95
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Pakse
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
(Not) Painting The Town Red
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Tour De Laos
This is a top pick! ... after a flat tire blew my confidence away from driving my motorbike off-road safely. Right now I am back in the town of Pakse, and enjoying a quiet evening before heading to 4,000 islands to relax and heal tomorrow morning. Looks like my Camera has got a ...
Day 70
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Motorcycling Around The Bolaven Plateau
This is a top pick! 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 71
This is a top pick! ... the trip. He tried to rip us off in the centre but we held our ground and he backed down and charged a more reasonable amount. Pakse is the last big city before Cambodia so I went into the bank to stock up on US Dollars ready for Cambodia where it is ...
Chapter 39: Si Phan Don
This is a top pick! ... , 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 ...
Hanging Around
This is a top pick! ... Cambodia 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 ...
Lone Wolves of Laos - Biking the Bolaven Plateau
This is a top pick! ... really 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 ...
Threesome !!!
This is a top pick! ... 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. ...
Sleep Bus
This is a top pick! ... people. 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 ...
That's a wiffy sounding temple
This is a top pick! ... history 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
This is a top pick! 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
This is a top pick! ... to 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 ...
Southern dusty towns, waterfalls+an elephant
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Border crossing from Thailand to Laos
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Wat Phu Champasak
This is a top pick! ... 3 times and saying he would. 20:45 I didn't know it was bed time, but it is, coz they turned the inside lights off in the bus! Goodnight then! Best: the awesome ride back to pakse Worst: panic when Neil broke down Beautiful: the ride on the way ...
Leaving the Islands and Heading to Pakse
This is a top pick! ... to get packed though and dressed and sit down for breakfast. We're on the boat heading for the other shore to get a minibus to Pakse. We were pleased to see Paul and Jane have also decided to come with us and not spend another day on the island so the ...
Scooter Riding, Waterfalls and Zip Lining
This is a top pick! ... the 10 year olds I see navigating the diverse terrain. Do you think I can add this new skill to my resume? I rolled back into Pakse at around 8:00PM drenched and ready for a hot shower. Still dreaming of a chance to zip line I made a quick detour at ...
Bolevan Plateau
This is a top pick! ... milk - very naughty and very tasty!!! We took an aircon 'tourist' bus to Savanakhet to spend the night and from here go to Pakse the next day and change buses to go to Tadlo in the famous Bolevan Plateau the coffee making area and land of rice paddies ...
Champusak Region - Pakse
This is a top pick! 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 ...