Pakse Lodges - Reviews and Rates

Today was another day spent doing what we do best in Laos, Relaxing

Pakse is a pretty sedate little town, but when the sun is upon you it is hot hot hot!

We found our way up to Delta Coffee today, I'd almost class it as some of the best coffee I've ever tried, this cafe has it's own plantation about 50 k's away up on the Plateau, t...

We packed a few things and left our main packs at the guesthouse and set of towards Tad Lo. On the way we stopped of at a waterfall and a local village. It was really nice here but for the life of us we cant remember what the name of the place was called. From here we went straight to Tad Lo. It was a rally quiet little village with a few guesth...

By this point I have decided that a normal bus ride just isn't in the cards for me and meg. We get on our sleeper bus to take us from Vientiane to Pakse on a 10hr trip. There are 2 people to a bunk bed that is so tiny that we have to take turns one of us laying on our side and one flat. We are lucky though because people traveling alone have to ...

Today is March 17,2009 at noon. I am presently in Pakse, Laos. I have been travelling with my sister since December 25, 2008 to February 26, 2009 at which time my sister returned to Canada and I continued on my own. We started out by having a stopover in Beijing, China and spent a few days there to see the amazing wall of China, the Forbidden Ci...

I've found a job in Chiang Mai!
I'll be working at spicy Thai hostel from the end of this month! I'm very happy about it!
Till then I still have a few weeks left, so I thought I'd find my way to Chiang Mai through Laos.


Peter was also traveling in southern Laos, so we arranged to meet up in a hotel in Pakse.
After nearly 24h...

The area surrounding Pakse is known as the Bolaven Plateau, and having a newly found love of moped riding, Tom, Mike and I decided that the best way to see it would be to rent mopeds for a few days and head off into the wilderness... Day 1 We got up early to sort out bus tickets (to get to Vientiane when we get back) and bikes and rode out of th...

Thought I bit off more than I could chew over the past three days. After leaving the capital for Pakse, Christine and I put everything that we would need for 3 days into my pack and rented a motorbike. I'd like to take this time to thank the makers of the Honda "100 wave" b/c we did things I'm sure this bike was not designed to do. It was ridicu...

"Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us lost and confused." Paulo Coehlo from The Zahir Knowing that your relationship is over and it's only a matter of time until you part ways is the hardest part of being in love. My partner and...

My Parents' Visit My parents are world travelers, but during their trip around the world on their honeymoon some 50+ years ago, they didn't have a chance to visit Lao. Now since I am working here, it was time for them to see this beautiful country. So at the end of February until the 3rd week in March, 2008, my parents came to visit me in Luang ...

So back to Pakse, the town that didn't want me the first time(all guesthouses full), i booked a day tour with a travel agency, to see the villages, waterfalls, all in the same day. Fantastic day, just so you know, on my own, it will have taken me 4 days with the local transport to see all i saw in one day. So very good deal! During this tour, I ...