Country Info
- Vientiane
- Capital
- Kip (LAK)
- Currency
- 5,635,967
- Population
- LA
- Country Code
Dondet Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Dondet, Lao Peoples Dem Rep
4000 Islands- Eventually
We left Tham Keak at 7.30am and what should have been a 9 hour journey all the way to the islands was a 12 hour uncomfortable sweat box, with punctures, to only half way. After a few hours' sleep in Pakse we were up and off to try and actually make it to ...
Don Det, 4000 Islands
... next day we decided we needed to catch up on our books and sat on the beach. We also rented big tractor inner tubes, got a Beer Lao (great), and worked on our tans. Whenever we got tired of our books, we would hop onto the tubes and lazily float on the ...
Laos: Its not you, it's me.
... first thing they think of when they think of they're trip through Laos, and the answer will be those hazy days of Beer Lao spent floating down a river. Since some Laos bright spark thought it would be a bit of a money maker to send these stupid tourists ...
4000 Islands
So we left Siem Reap, on a missison up to Laos. We always new this part of the journey was not going to be easy, and hadn't really been looking forward to it. The journey was going to take a couple of days, numerous buses, a few mini vans, and a boat. So ...
I Love Laos! From Vientiene, central Loas to South
... from the bridge was cool. We spent the evening playing the Asian version of Bowls with the staff at the guesthouse and drinking beer Lao. The next was probably the hardest days riding I’ve ever done, the route was 150km to do that day and 60km was ...
4000 islands, Champasak and Pakse
... thing we got the ferry across the river to the town of Champasak and we were met by this guy sat in a tuk-tuk drinking a beer-lao who offered to take us to his guesthouse for free and give us amazingly cheap rooms which we went along with, it turned out ...
Country Overview: Laos
... Point: Phu Bia 2,817m Adult Literacy Rate: 73% Unemployment Rate: 2.5% National Anthem: Pheng Xat Lao National Symbols: Hammer and Sickle National Animal: Indian Elephant National Flower: Dok Champa Famous ...
Save Peng!
The journey down from Vientiane to Ban Dondet was a long one. Starting with an 11 hour Sleeperbus to Pakse. The bus is exactly what it says on the tin - a bus with about 25 beds in, problem being they are single beds and they are used as 2 people to a ...
Enforced relaxation
... the lovely Danni from Florida, who we had seen in Northern Cambodia a couple of days before. We swapped stories and drank Beer Lao (at a premium in Cambodia for being so much better than the local stuff, but cheaper in its home territory), and ended up ...
Si Phan Don...4000 Islands
My adventure through the 4000 islands started with...a special bus breakdown! ahaha :) After experiencing so many breakdowns in Loas i started to feel that there is always a next one coming and waiting for me.. And indeed there was one! Only after ...
Laos take 2: 4000 Islands, 2 Hammocks and 0 Kip
... ordeal - they were taken to the wrong border and given a wooden platform for the three of them to sleep on! Our last day on Dondet was spent penniless as there are no ATM's at all on any of the islands and we stupidly did not come prepared, we tried to ...
Las 4 mil islas y un atardecer en la frontera
Los días en Siem Riep habían terminado, habíamos visitados templos increíbles, lejanos, inmensos; algunos nos fascinaron, otros no tanto, más que mal visitamos 14 complejos de templos….o sea, completamos nuestra dosis en el corto ...
Been There Don Det
The 4000 islands, hammock capital of Laos and one of those places that in my opinion alot of backpackers trump up to be better than it really is. If only for the apparent prestige of having been there. Many people forfeit seeing southern laos due to ...
Lazy River
... up and down, everyone says “Sabaidee” with a smile and you learn very quickly how to say “Hello” in Lao. Many of the locals were lounging in hammocks near their bungalows, and every family seemed to have its own collection of ...
Zadnjič iz Laosa + proračun prvega mesec
Vožnja do križišča z glavno cesto je bila divja. Rekli so nama, da gre lokalna »trola« ob petih popoldne, ampak na postaji nama ni znal nihče ničesar povedat. Če se samo smejijo in kimajo, potem nimajo pojma o ...
Hammocks, $2 bungalows and 90 Cent Pinaka Lao Lao
This morning had potential to suck really bad, but somehow it all worked out like it always seems to. We were heading to the 4000 Islands (Don Dhet) bright and early, the bus was coming to get us at 0745 so we decided we'd get up at 0600 get ready, go ...
Been there, Don Det
So after we left Kong Lo, we took the 5hr tuktuk to Tha Khaek then jumped on the bus to Pakse as it was leaving the station. To say they packed everything but the kitchen sink would be an understatement. There genuinely was a kitchen unit strapped to the ...
Island Bums
... evening was a medical adventure since one of the guests collapsed after just a sip of lao lao (rice wine). Mikes (German) wife (Lao) wanted to put her out in the garden so that nobody could see and start talking about the guesthouse! Sense prevailed ...
Jungle fever...
Bent u nog niet op vakantie geweest dit jaar? Vindt u de Ardennen een veredeld stadspark? Snakt u naar een beetje avontuur? In dit geval, beste lezer, is het ongerepte noordoosten van Cambodia echt iets voor u! Sta me toe om mijn ...
Gone Fishing
4000 Islands (Si Phon Don is the Laos name) It’s called 4000 Island because at this part of the river were the Mekong is at its widest there are 4000 islands, coincidently. However, what is considered an island could be anything from a fully ...
Reif fuer die Insel
... Leute sind alle sehr freundlich und man kann ihnen beim Fischen usw zusehen. Nach 3 Tagen voller Erholung (Nax wird dem vielleicht wiedersprechen :) ) war dann auch schon Silvester. Wir haben uns dann fuer die groesste Party am Mekongstrand ...
4000 Islands
We arrived at 4000 islands by a van and then were taken by boat straight to Don Khone. We stayed on this island because the lonely planet book said that the other island Don Det was a lot like Vang Vieng and Kelley nor I wanted to have anything like ...
Been there, Don Det, got the t-shirt (literally)
After several back to back bus journeys and the epic Sleeper Bus, we were well in need of some serious R & R. Where better then to go than to a group of islands, sat in the widest stretch of the Mekong, where very little happens and the electricity is ...
The 4000 islands
... drowned while drunk during our time there). We carried on towards the south of the island but everything was either expensive or full. A young Lao woman named Tou offered to let us sleep for free in her restaurant, in a sort of bungalow. As it was really ...
Le Tour de Mekong - Cambodia & Laos
I forgot to mention in the last entry that if one thing stood out and made the Temples of Angkor so incredible it was the bewildering lack of any kind of restricted access - you could literally scramble all over them if you wanted - unthinkable these ...
Paradise
The bus from Vientiane was our best bus yet it had double beds which may have been a bit over friendly if you didn't know the person next to you but for us it was really comfy especially as it had proper pillows and blankets. The 16hr journey ...
Just chilling!
... and spent the time watching in amazement as more and more luggage was strapped to the roof, tucked under the seats and piled in peoples laps. A chicken was tied to the seat and persistantly pecked the leg of a poor girl from England who got on at the ...