Enjoying Laos cuisine

Trip Start Aug 15, 2006
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Trip End May 27, 2008


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Monday, March 10, 2008

Yesterday I started the day with a run around the island and over onto another called Don Kong to see a nice waterfall - as it was only 8:30 am I was suprised to see busloads of Asian tourists already there before me!  I lwas a hot and sweaty mess and a little disappointed to see a no-entry sign as I would have happily dived in to the cool water!

Later that morning we got the boat back to the mainland and a bus to the big town of Pakse where we found a nice hotel (ThongLung?)and treated ourselves to air-con, an en-suite, a TV and a comfy bed for 60,000kip. 

Today we found a nice Indian restaurant which was the same owners as the place we'd been to on Don Dhet.  We had roti and coffee for breakfats and met an English guy called Alex who'd been hanging around in town a few days as he'd ben really sick.  It turned out that he was staying in the same hotel as us so we chatted over our plans to hire a motorbike and head off to the Bolaven Plateau to see if he wanted to join us. 

We hunted high and low for an ATM that worked and got out a cool 1.4 million kip.  We had lunch at a cheap place then went to check out the Champsak Palace hotel as we'd read it had a jacuzzi and thought we'd splash out for one night but alas it was broken! 

We checked out the big market which was miles from the main part of town only to find it was closing so we'd had a wasted trip.  Went back to the Indian restaurant with Alex and had a great tandori chicken which reminded me of Penang in Malaysia. 

Tomorrow we're thinking of getting a motorbike and making our own trip around the Bolaven plateau so hopefully it will all come together.

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