Before heading south we went to the capital of Laos Vientiane. Because of it being so expensive we decided to do the city and its sights in one day on a moped. This was great fun but incredibly tiring. However, five minutes in to the bus journey out of Vientiane I (alex) deleted the photos of the whole day, woops.
From there we went all the way down the Mekong to Pakse, from which we took a bus directly to the small town of tat lo in the coffee growing region of the Bolaven plateau. Tat lo is named after a waterfall in the centre of the village. In the evening we went to watch the villagers washing clothes and children playing in the waterfall. We arranged to do a half days trekking with a local guide. This was really good, walking through tiny villages, waterfalls and crop fields.
Pakse was our next stop, this only merited an over night stop so we headed south to Si Phan Don (4000 islands).
Don Det in the 4000 islands turned out to be a great place to stop off and we ended up lingering longer than expected drinking cheaper than cheap whisky and lying in hammocks reading all day. Cycling on the neighbouring island of Don Khon was great also.
A perfect ending to Laos...
Southern Laos Photos
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