Mekong Hotel Savannakhet

Tha He Rd., Kanthaburi Dist Savannakhet, Lao Peoples Dem Rep

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Falling Apart

A travel blog entry by mikeandsheila

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... bus swerving as it overtakes on blind corners, mobiles ringing incessantly, throat clearing... But here we are in a sleeper bus in Laos. It's a big coach with a narrow aisle between two tiers of nicely finished wooden bunks - each sleeps two people. It's a tight squeeze just getting down the aisle for us big westerners, and even with our backpacks stowed in the hold, we still have our day packs, laptop bag and guitar to manhandle and find a place for in our ...

Who let the dogs out

A travel blog entry by jlaire

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... Tuk Tuk from the bus station to our chosen guesthouse (the guide book said it had a TV) and when we arrive the driver has to wake up the guy who is asleep in front of the tv, so we can get into a room. Once we are settled we go back out and he asks for our help. In front of him he has an English grammar book and he wants us to explain the difference between 'did not' and 'didn't'. (Claire leaves this to Jo.) We tell him that we are on the way to the eco-treck office and he insists ...

A week of visas and karaoke

A travel blog entry by tatandandy

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... pick up the next day. The guesthouse we stayed at was lovely, Leena Guesthouse. Our room was under the stairs and only came with freezing cold water, but the bed was hard enough to fix our backs after our cloud of a bed in Pakse, and the people who stayed there with us were just a little bit epic. It didn't take long before we were drinking copious amounts of beer at the local Karaoke venue - somebodies basement with a bar, some cockroaches and a few english ...

Savannakhet

A travel blog entry by dzasta

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... places on the planet during the Vietnam war. We also went through Khe Sanh. Khe Sanh was the site of a huge battle in the war. The americans wanted it cos it was on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, a huge supply route for the NVA. When the americans worked out that the battle was a dirversion for the Tet Offencive they left. Anything they did not take they buryied or blew up. There is nothing there today except a small museum. During the war Laos became the most bonbed ...

Kleine Doerfer & die Kong Lo Hoehle (27.3-29.3)

A travel blog entry by knotch

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... Gehirnwaesche bei der langsam aber stetig die Birne weichgeklopft wird :). Jedenfalls war Lukas Idee ein bisschen Sightseeing in Savannakhet doch so keine gute , weils es auch hier nichts zu sehen gab. Hinzu kam , dass Robin noch seine Kamera auf dem Weg von der Busstation in Savannakhet zum Hostel verloren hat. Morgens gings dann weiter dann Tha Khet wo wir naechtigen wollten um den Tag drauf zu einer Tropfsteinhoehle mit Rollern ...