Country Info
- Vientiane
- Capital
- Kip (LAK)
- Currency
- 5,635,967
- Population
- LA
- Country Code
Dondet Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Dondet, Lao Peoples Dem Rep
Let's get some laap!
... Deze culturele gewoonte van gerechten delen is voor veel toeristen even wennen omdat gerechten zelden tegelijk op tafel verschijnen, maar in Lao time, dat is als het volgende gerecht klaar is. Glazig wordt de blik in hun ogen als je er iets van ...
relax in Pakse + 4000 îles
Le lendemain de mon retour de jungle, le réveil est lent, fastidieux, langoureux, tout en stretching et flemmardise. Ou comment même réussir à apprécier ses courbatures ! Une fois debout, marcher est plus délicat et je ressemble davantage à une ...
Spider Island and some awesome Tree Jumps
So, all we do all day is sit around our hammocks staring at this one tree across the river. We talk a lot about this tree: this tree can be jumped from! Finally, we get off our lazy bums and decide to explore across the way. This island is ...
This thing about SI Phan Done: CHIL-LAX!!!!
... me glisse jusqu'au coin où on mange, m'étale sur le plancher ou dans le hammac et commande mon quotidien petit déj: Café Lao, Fruit Shake (Banane/Ananas à 50centimes d'euros SVP!!!!!!!!!!!!!) et Pain et Oeufs!!!! (le tout pour 16.000 kip soit un peu ...
A lil'bit of Chillaxing
Well i'ts been a while! These last week or however long it has been (you loose track of time here; theres 'day' and 'night') has been pretty damn ace! I'm in an area called Si Phan Don (4000 Islands) in which the mekong opens out and in which tiny ...
4000 islands
also part of si phan don, but more south. same same, no luck with the dolphins. given that it is the low travel season/mosoon season, there are very few travelers and it feels like you own the place and you get the VIP treatment cuz ...
back to Laos... at the 4,000 Islands
... into an afternoon siesta, followed by a refreshing afternoon swim across the river, and gazing out mindlessly across the Mekong under a fiery-tangerine sky as the sun lay down for its evening’s rest… well, time for a delectably cold beer Lao! ...
So many islands
We stayed on Don Khong for 2 nights in a guesthouse that had 40 empty rooms so it was nice to have the place to ourselves. Justin bartered hard for a discount on the room and even though the guesthouse was completely empty she wouldn't reduce ...
Phnom Penh
Our bus ride from 4000 islands to Phnom Penh was very much less than enjoyable. It began with a boat ride to the main island then we got into a van at about 8ish to make our way to customs, which has three stops, first you depart from Laos (it costs a ...
Jour 27
Aujourd'hui nous avons loué deux magnifiques bicyclettes roses et nous avons explorés notre ile et sa voisine, Don Khone. Nous avons suivi l'ancienne ligne de chemin de fer construit par les Francais pour acheminer la marcahndise du nord de Don Det au ...
Jour 26
Ce matin nous avons quitté Don Kong pour Don Det, une autre petite ile que nous avons rejoint en 1h30 de bateau plutot incorfortable.. A peine arrivés nous avons trouvé une GH pas chère du tout et vraiment sympa, encore une hutte en bamboo qui ...
Don Det
After arriving in Don Det, we just took the first place we saw - US$2 for the night, they had a bed, roof, 4 walls and a shared shower/toilet. That was fine, we just wanted beer. Ended up drinking the night away with some like minded fellow travellers ...
Hangin' in a hammock (taas myos suomeksi!)
We headed off bright and early to catch a ferry across the river - this time a much smaller affair made of two rowing boats - then a tuk-tuk and finally a bus to further down south to an area called Si Phan Don, or "the 4,000 islands". Another fun river ...
2manytitles
... on a bus! We celebrating by going to a nearby Indian by the river and eating really good samosas and sampling the local beer, Beer Lao, not the most original name but good beer. We have been spoilt with good beer here and Cambodia. The hotel also has a ...
Islands in the Mekong, more of southern Laos
... imagine my head ploughing through the water (I can see you all diving straight to the internet for a photo). Amongst the Lao the dolphins are traditionally considered to be reincarnated humans. The Irrawaddy are rare fresh water river dolphins and only ...
les 4000 iles!!!
Me voilà enfin dans la région des 4000iles! Cela se trouve à l'extrémité sud du Laos à la frontière avec le Cambodge. Le Mékong ce sépare en plein de petit bras créent une multitude d’iles de toute taille. L’endroit idyllique pour ...
The Bolaven Plateau & 4000 Islands
Het einde van mijn Laos-avontuur in zicht! De afgelopen dagen hebben we met een jeep rondgereden doorheen het Bolaven plateau, op onverharde en stoffige wegen en langs ontelbare koffieplantages. Het Bolaven plateau bevindt zich in een oude vulkaan die zo ...
Relaxing on the Four Thousand Islands
... 3-hour bus towards the South, and then a boat to the island of Don Det. Before departure I quickly had another strong sweet Lao coffee and some fried dough sticks (tasted similar to churros in Spain - yum! My kind of breakfast!). For the onward journey I ...
Hamockology on the 4000 Islands
... many farrangs to care, so for the most part they were not all that friendly. We hung out in some hammocks sipping a Lao coffee for a while and watching the traffic go back and forth to Don Khon before heading onward to check out the King Kong place ...
Island Life
In the morning we get a free breakfast before someone picked us up from the cafe and we got the local boat - a tiny wooden boat which was filled with people, bags, and motorbikes across the river. Once on the other side we waited for about an hour whilst ...
9 Days in Paradise
... experiencing life as almost comatose in the most blissful sense of the word. We’d like to offer our sincere thanks and appreciation to Lao, Kam Pao, all the mamas and the papas and the kids of Paradise, the people of Don Det, and to Lance and ...
Biscycle ride to SEAs"largest waterfall by volume"
So, as I said in the previous blog, there is not much to do in the area but relax. Today, we decided to to rent bicycles and explore the island. Since the heat was HOTTTT, we decided to go travel across a bridge (layed down by the French), to another ...
4000 Inseln
... auf den 4000 Inseln. Hier spaltet sich der Mekong in viele kleine Stücke auf, so dass viele Inseln entstehen. Mit dem Fahrrad haben wir die Gegend erkundet und wunderschöne Wasserfälle besichtigt :) Mit einem LKW-Reifen kann man um die Insel treiben ...
En enkelt - eller to - ud af 4000
... og cafeer lige om hjoernet, boed paa laekkerier og oe-specialiteter i form af hjemmebag, graeskar-burger, staerkt krydrede lao-salater og linsesuppe, saa der var virkelig ikke noget der manglede indenfor raekkevidde. Selv husdyrene var faldet godt ...
Life Among Si Phan Don
... ; Other than this last event, we had an utterly serene journey over the waters of the Mekong, watching the relaxed activities of the Lao people as they went about their evening chores. After four phenomenal days on Don Khon, we took a two hour longboat to ...
Cambodia here we come!
Good to go bright and early, and even had time for an egg baguette with Matt. Everything was plain sailing, when we reached the mainland we filled in our Cambodia visa application forms with the help of a Cambodian advisor who spoke good English, he ...
Been There, Don Det
I'll admit it: prior to mine and Marky's arrival in Laos, neither of us had given the country much thought. A quick read of the Laos chapter in South East Asia on a Shoestring during the planning stages of the trip encouraged us to ...
Ahhh! Relaxing Don Det - one of 4000 Islands
So, after a 13 our bus ride: sitting in the very back seat (the bumpiest) which didnt recline and leaked water onto us (it was raining that night) and which caught a flat tire that took 1.5 hours to fix, we finally reached Pakse at 7am. Once we ...
Daydreaming in Don Det
Another early start! This time to get a mini bus to take us to Laos from Kratie. The usual over crowding ensued with 17 people packed in a 12 seater bus. With every pick-up stop they made we thought they couldn't‘t possible fit anyone else in, but ...
Four Thousand Islands - Don Det
02/04/2009 Arrived into Pakse at 10.30am, 4 hours late. In the night the bus made a noise, and it seems one of the brake pads broke so after leaving it at the side of the road the driver continued. Once in Pakse we jumped straight on a mini-bus down ...