Souksamlane Hotel Pakse

... bossa nova (Stan Getz). <br><br>Soulideth gave me a ride to the main road where I waited an hour for the bus. The bus was one of those falling-apart types, clattering and moaning on all sides, and quite slow. The driver kept turning the steering wheel a full 360 degrees one way, then back the other way, on a straight road... weird... but I arrived in one piece. From the bus we saw a funeral, which ...

... and I would like to have a boyfriend! You and me are the same! and we talked about this for a while longer. His friends seemed to know as well and were completely cool with it, which I still find quite surprising for a country with so many traditional sides, and for their age as well (17-18). <br><br>Nose-job<br>They also told me they thought my eyes and nose were so beautiful, especially my nose, ha ha. Because it's less flat than theirs. The boy said he ...

... having your normal comforts you cant help but fall in love with the island life. We cycled on the rocky roads to see SE Asias largest waterfall, we went through rice paddies and took a boat to Cambodia to spot fresh water dolphins in the Meakong, it was a great shock to us all when we actually spotted some dolphins, we thought we were being conned! The bikes were terrible and every 5 minutes someones chain would come off or a peddle would fall off! Our wooden bungalow was ...

After our fabulous experience in the North of Laos we headed south to the town of Pakse. Luang Nam Tha to Pakse is over about 600 km and originally we had chosen to fly this leg of the journey. However we found that the airport in Pakse was shut for renovations.<br><br>A five hours mini-bus journey was followed by a 16 hour overnight bus back to Vientiane, roughly the halfway ...

... it hard to think of anything more naturally beautiful that i had seen and came up with nothing (except nat of course). I could have built a little hut there and lived.. seriously.. it was that good.<br><br>After that we carried on up the road, stopping to put tissue around my poor sunburnt hands and stopping of at little village and I some of that famous Lao coffee...and was it good... o yea! not as ...

... each to enter. The sound of the falls was amazing, however a fog seemed to be snaking through the trees towards us. This didn't look good and to our disappointment the falls were completely hidden from view. Our visibility was probably about a foot. All we could do was laugh about it!<br><br>Before we moved on to the next set of falls we decided to have lunch in the restaurant. Cheese and tuna sandwiches with french fries, just what we ...

... morning comes and i have pulled it up during the night and hold it up to my chin. This all makes for some bad itching at 7am. Gross, I know. When we arrive in Pakse it is pooring rain and being nervous about our journey into cambodia taking longer then expected we eat some Pad Thai for breakfast and catch another 7hr bus to the 4000 islands. <br> <br>

... movie with English subtitles and they loved the story I think. Anh invited me to go to dinner with her and Gow, so we went to Gow&#8217;s parent&#8217;s house and we ate there. There was an eight day old baby there and it was so small, I felt like it was not real. They wanted me to try duck blood, I mean I am adventurous with trying food, but that made me want to throw up. All in all, Pakxe countryside is beautiful but spending time with the girls was special.

... dilapidated, obsolete, part of the railway. It wasn't safe for cycles to cycle across, never mind heavier motorbikes. If anything heavier tried to get across, it would end up like the railway bridge which collapsed in the movie, 'Around the World in Eighty days,' but was OK for pedestrians provided you gingerly watched the gaps. All very interesting.<br>We continued on to the end of the line; a small fishing village above and beside the Mekong. Below ...

... the water, we watched fisherman man their long boats, and watched others swim in the cool recesses.<br>Some guys were playing Ker plunk, or pitch n' toss on the sand.<br>Anne-Marie, besides asserting the game being French which is why Laotians have adopted it, couldn't help but enthusiastically lay down the rules to me who'd never played before. However, the guys soon lost their enthusiasm for throwing the led ball once we weren't prepared to ...