Pakse, Lao Peoples Dem Rep Travel Blogs

Tadlo
Dec 22, 2005 (11 photos)

... While waiting at the airport a group of 6 what I thought were french cyclists arrived bikes and all to catch the flight to Pakse. Watching the airport guys throwing the bikes around was quite amusing, wasn't sure if they were going to make it in one piece ...

Former capital with pre - angkor ruins
Feb 4, 2007 (16 photos)

... journey. Pakse was similar, though more of a transport hub with its own airport; again good rooms and excellent food. From Pakse we caught a longtail boat down the Mekong river to Champasak. Quite a pleasant journey but there weren't any seats on this ...

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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( ...

Peace and tranquility
Mar 11, 2008 (12 photos)

... offers elephant trekking. We had a great meal in a little restaurant where we were given free bananas for dessert (there seemed to be noone else around in the village!) and played cards all night whilst drinking the local Lao Lao tipple with sprite. 

Motorcycle diaries II
Mar 25, 2007 (9 photos)

After Vientainne we headed further south to Tha Khaek which was a bit grim so we went on again to Pakse, again another working town with not much going for it.  After such a great start, the central region of Laos was pretty disappointing.  We ...

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 ...

The rest of Laos
Apr 28, 2005

... and rice fields, but everything was just so dry and dusty and brown. But it was a good ride. And today we are in Pakse, waiting until tomorrow, when we take a plane to Siem Reap in Cambodia. I'm so excited to see the Temples of Angkor! So I guess ...

Pizza in Pakse
Jan 24, 2009 (15 photos)

... have a cash machine. So we spent our one day exploring the Bolaven Plateau, a collection of forest-covered hills near to Pakse. We saw a tea plantation, where we got to try some green tea. We also visited a coffee farm where we tried the coffee, which ...

Punless Pakse
Sep 26, 2009

... avoid the sun on my hand which aggravated it (and also to  see the Manchester derby by downloading MOTD 2!).  Paul's verdict of Pakse, some nice wats, however not worth 36 hours on a bus to see . We woke up the next morning to find no one had ...

Delta du Mekong
Jun 12, 2008

... Bolaven, au sud du Laos (Travel Pod ne l'a pas dans sa banque de ville a mettre sur la carte, c'est pourquoi j'ai mis Pakse, la ville la plus proche). Nous debarquons de l'autobus, en plein milieu de champs, de huttes en bambous et d'enfants exuberants a ...

Wasserfaelle, Tempel und Regen
Dec 27, 2008 (8 photos)

... Plan eine Nacht zu bleiben und dann weiter nach Si Phan Don zu reisen, aber das hat alles irgendwie mit dem Busticket nicht geklappt, also wuden es 2 Naechte in Pakse. Zum Gueck gibt es in der Naehe ein paar Sachen zu erkunden, also hiess es als erstes mal ...

Pakse - Preparing for our road trip
Jul 11, 2009

... . I think it took Scott a little longer as he had had to share the poor excuse for a double bed with a local Lao gentleman. Pakse as a town was nothing to write home about but we were unconcerned, spending most of that day sitting beside the river at our ...

Back to basics
Oct 23, 2009 (54 photos)

... water and the electricity only sometimes worked.  There were only a few restaurants on the whole island which were basically peoples houses where they make you dinner and there were chickens and water buffalo everywhere.  We all hired bikes to ...

Southern Loop - Tad Fane
Apr 26, 2006 (4 photos)

So we decided to treat ourselves, and after a short (by Laos standards) Songthaew journey from Pakse we arrived at our wooden chalet on the edge of a deep forrested gorge. We decided to go check out the village party just up the road (still New Year). Sure ...

Enjoying Laos cuisine
Mar 10, 2008

... happily dived in to the cool water! Later that morning we got the boat back to the mainland and a bus to the big town of Pakse where we found a nice hotel (ThongLung?)and treated ourselves to air-con, an en-suite, a TV and a comfy bed for 60,000kip.  ...

Boats, bombs, backgammon and Basques
Sep 15, 2004 (1 photos)

... What a place. When we felt we had listened for long enough, and had played enough cards and backgammon, we headed to Pakse in a fish-slopping pick-up with all the cold potatoes/turnips we could eat. Ignoring wet season advice, we loaded our Basques ...

The Wedding Crashers
Nov 3, 2005 (3 photos)

... of Turbolax. Job done! Packed our stuff up the next morning and jumped on another crazy bus to another sleepy town called Pakse. It was more or less the same as Savannakhet only smaller. That night we wondered around the town looking for a bit of ...

4000 islands
May 8, 2009 (29 photos)

... of 7up (mixer) was the same price lol so good very drunk on a nice drink for one pound 80, wish i could do that in England! We are now back in Pakse, and going to check out the bolavian plateu tommorow. Off to Vietnam on the 14th, can't wait! 

Farewell to Laos....4000 Islands and more!
Oct 15, 2007

Farewell Laos....4000 Islands and more!

Leaving Laos
Jan 17, 2009 (18 photos)

... became well known and respected as he brought wealth to his village from people wanting to visit it. Our last stop was Pakse, a looong 8 hour bus ride from Tha Kaek.  We checked into the Phonsavanh Guesthouse and were well looked after by the family ...

Pakse
Mar 1, 2007 (42 photos)

... gesichtslos. Deshalb verbrachten wir dort nur wenig Zeit und reisten kurz nach Erhalt des Kambodschavisums weiter via Savannaket und Pakse zu den 4000 Inseln. Wir befuerchteten schon den Norden zu frueh verlassen zu haben, denn die Landschaft in Zentral ...

Pakse - completing the loop
Jul 14, 2009

... weak. Alas, it seemed these people didn't eat anything but noodle soup and so I decided to wait until we arrived back in Pakse that afternoon. The rain stayed away for the rest of that day, but we headed straight back, far to wet to consider stopping ...

Pakse & The Bolaven Plateau
Dec 24, 2008 (9 photos)

... this case, Stella and I laughed at the whole situation and eventaully we made it to town. The next day in Pakse, we decided to rent motorbikes to get to the Bolaven Plateau, a large national protected area with coffee and tea plantations ...

Im Sleeper nach Pakse
Dec 26, 2008 (3 photos)

... dementsprechend hoch. Sollte sich das angepriesene bewahrheiten, wuerden wir wunderbar entspannt und ausgeschlafen nahc 12 Stunden in Pakse ankommen uns nicht wie sonst aussehen als haetten wir 2 Tage nicht geschlafen und haetten obendrein noch schwere ...

Getting Back to Nature
May 15, 2005 (2 photos)

From Pakse, I headed further into the heart of Laos to the Bolaven Plateau so that I could truly "get back to nature" (yep, really sounds like me). But despite my trepidation, I really enjoyed this stop. I stayed in a quaint, very clean, rustic bungalow. ...

New Photos!
Apr 28, 2005

Hey, I forgot to give you the link to my new Laos photo album. Here it is. Enjoy! http://www.amazon.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=14k6runv.y3lt3gv&x=0&y=-7ku0x6

Waterfalls and gibbons
Mar 14, 2008 (7 photos)

... lunch which also meant that we were able to get our admission to the waterfall refunded which was a bonus!  We got back to pakse to find all of the hotels were full so we hopped on a sleeper bus to Vien Kham - the driver kept saying he wouldn't stop ...

The Bolaven Plateau
Dec 19, 2006 (13 photos)

... than usual amount of both kip (for Laos) and US dollars (for Cambodia).  The only other point of the stopover in Pakse (a transport hub of minimal interest) is to use the internet, which also may be very difficult over the next two weeks.  I'm ...