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Dondet Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Dondet, Lao Peoples Dem Rep
Been there, Don Det
Tällä kertaa onnistuttiin löytämään jopa perille asti Laosiin. Tultiin Mekong-joen rannalle, josta lähettiin kapealla jokiveneellä kohti Don Detin pikkusaarta. Paikkahan oli Si Phan Don, eli 4000 Islands. Nimensä mukaisesti joella oli paljon ...
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LAOS - 19/01/08 - 15/02/08 [A FAIRE]
Toutes mes excuses, j'ai pris enormement de retard dans l'ecriture du blog. D'une part, le cout de la connexion est plus chere au Laos qu'au Vietnam. Mais surtout, quand on reste 1 mois dans un pays, c'est plutot court (sisisii je vous assure) et on ...
4,000 islands
... are here all year round, Don Det being one of them. Don Det is small island which was once just a traditional Lao island of villages surrounding the outside with farmland in the centre, it started attracting tourists and since then every farmer has built ...
I think I have travelled back in time!
I got a little minivan to the river, which took about 2 and a half hours, it seemed longer because I was sat in the middle in a seat that was obviously made for a primordial dwarf! Arriving at the dock town, if that's what you call it we all showed ...
Different kind of island life!!
After a year spent living on tropical islands in the sea, thought I would try a river island instead. ...
4000 Inseln im Mekong
... viele spannende Dinge erlebt und nette Leute kennengelernt. Leider mussten wir uns auch von unserem treuen Begleiter Richard verabschieden, mit dem wir fast unsere gesamte Zeit in Laos verbracht haben und sehr viel Spaß hatten. Er machte sich auf den ...
Lazy Dayz
Renowned for being even more relaxed than the rest of country (yes, it's possible!), we enjoyed a routine for four days of eat, read, eat, read, eat, drink, sleep - whilst taking in some spectacular sunrises and sunsets and watching other more energetic ...
Seeing dolphins
Getting to the 4000 islands (Si Phan Don in Lao), which are situated in the middle of the Mekong river, was easy peasy: just a matter of taking a couple of boats and a tuk tuk (and getting grossly ripped off by the owner of my guesthouse). The islands ...
Rocket man!
... the riverbank and cost $5 a night, very clean though. We headed across the little dirt path road to the restaurant to get a cold Beer Lao (this is drunk more than water over here - the Laos people are VERY proud of it and it is pretty good). At that ...
Been there, Don Det.
... 's just over 50p each!). After settling in we browsed one of the many "happy" menus the locals had to offer and tasted Lao cuisine at its finest. A coconut and pumpkin curry with sticky rice accompanied by a Beerlao, which just so happens to be the finest ...
Paradise has a name - Don Khon!
... days hanging about in hammocks, riding pedal bicycles and eating great food. Plus Malx managed to partake of a few of the local brew - Beer Lao. Boy, we've got a hard life, don't we?!?! Sadly, I don't think it will stay an idyll for long - already each ...
The Island of Don Det II
... some 50 meters from the action simply because they don't want to mix with the sad spirits that wade there. I don't subscribe to Lao legend and bathed nonchalantly with those wretched souls for about an hour. It was cool, refreshing, and I'd recommend it ...
cycling and relaxing but mainly relaxing
Yvette: got boat to don khon. guesthouse owner quite unhurried as we tried to check out twenty minutes early. we asked three times in the end and had to stand over her as she repeatedly miscalculated it! in the end she forgot breakfast one day ...
4000 Islands - Inselparadies im Mekong
... liegt. Um die Tiere zu sehen haben wir uns mit einem Traveller aus Alaska ein Fischerboot geteilt und wurden von einer netten Lao Frau zu dem 50m tiefen Pool gebracht, in dem sich die Delphine aufhalten. Wir hatten ca. 1h Zeit, die Ruhe und Friedlichkeit ...
Si Phan Don
We made a dy trip to Ban Don Det, one island in the 4000 islands (Si Phan Don).It is right on the border with Cambodia. The Mekong here cand get up to 14 km wide when the water is high, which makes it the widest on its entire lenght. In the dry ...
Laid Back Laos
Step back in time when we crossed the Lao border greeted by the flying hammer and sickle flag! Leaving Cambodia was a smaller bribe than when entering but the laid back Laos have caught onto the meney spinning idea and also charged us "unofficial" ...
Four Thousand Islands, Si Pan Don
I've decided to head home. Sometime in the last few weeks...I think it really crystallized my last day in Myanmar...I realized that I'd lost motivation to continue being a tourist. I need to settle down somewhere for a bit and I want that ...
Been there.... Don Det
... sandbanks but tourism has sprung up on a few of the larger main ones. I am staying on one of the smaller islands called Dondet where there is VERY little going on and it's such a welcome contrast from Vang Vieng The guesthouse is a row of wooden huts ...
Islands and Wats
2/05/09-5/05/09 From Kratie we organised a bus that would take us direct to the boat for Don Det Island in Laos. It ended up being three busses and a boat with a very long wait at a border town where we were convinced to change money for a very ...
4000 Islands
Friday 8th April: We woke up at 5.30am and we were almost there. The journey had gone by pretty quickly and wasn't nearly as bad as we'd thought. Of course its not the best nights sleep we had, but we did manage a few hours. We arrived in Pakse just ...
Down the river
... and of course a lot of eating. The place I stayed at was called "Mama Tan Eom's" - Mama was the matriarch of a little lao clan, and was very bubbly and entertaining. Even more entertaining was a guy (Keith) I ran into there, who I'd met a ...
A week on water
... on our first night who we periodically ran in to and got drunk with (really not that hard when large bottles of the fantastic Beer Lao are only a quid) over the next few days, enjoyed the nightly beach fires at the northern tip of 2 mile long the island, ...
Don Det part 1
I have traveled north to south through Laos and now find myself, again, in the middle of nowhere. At the widest point of the Mekong River, there are hundreds of small islands known as the 4000 islands. I am on Don Det, the only one with around the clock ...
Chilling...
We left Pakse around 8am in what should have been an A/C minibus, of course it was. It was a pleasant journey driving past the rice fields to Nakarsarg where we took the longtail boat to Don Khon via Don Det. It was very pretty, basically different ...
The Claw R.I.P.
The Claw 6th March 2013 - 8th April 2013 We've had some fun times together, you do smell quite a lot ...
Cycling, Kayaking and Lounging in a Hammock
... you also have all the small islands around here. Managed to find the temple this time on my way to the falls which was your typical Lao style buddist temple. On the way to the falls had to jump off the bike and cross a bridge. Along the way to the falls ...
Ok, so we are officially old
To get to southern Laos we travelled by this great bus where you get an actual bed. Could have done without being next to a stinking toilet though! We first visited a place called Champasak, and as usual hired bikes in the midday heat to go and see some ...