This is the quickest post yet (on some very expensive internet that is run by generators because the islands don't technically have electricity). The 4000 Islands have been great (very hot), but tomorrow we are on our way to Cambodia. We are taking a minivan to the border and then we are heading directly to Siam Riep. Today we saw the biggest waterfalls in South East Asia, which were very impressive (obviously not as big as niagara falls...but none the less, very impressive). More from Cambodia, Lots of love, Nicole/Poke/Coco xoxoxo [View Full Entry]

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Actually we didn't stay in Don Khong, but Don Kon, but its not on this thingy!! So we decided to travel in luxury for a change and treat ourselves to a 7am lay in so we booked a private bus to 4000 islands and then a boat to take us to Don Kon. The minibus overheated and broke down on the motorway and we had to sit there for 2 hours melting, whilst the driver took out the engine and fan belt and all the other usually vital parts for driving and still tried to make it work. I was and [View Full Entry]

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Sunday May 31st 2009 4000 islands Another early morning as we loaded up and headed for our boat to the mainland and left our four thousand islands chapter behind us. A minivan picked us up on the river bank and for once it was just the 2 of us but this was only for the 45 minutes drive to the Cambodian Border. It probably could have been a quicker drive if the drier didn’t stop off so she could pop into mass for a quick pray on the way though. We pulled up at the boarder and got pretty ripped on [View Full Entry]

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Saturday May 30th 2009 4000 islands We had had enough of been stuck on our island and really wanted to see some of the rest of the area so we booked a full day boat trip. Most of the more interesting features are about 15km down river on Don Det so we boarded a boat and sailed slowly down for about an hour. We came ashore on Don Det and it looked like a pretty thrown together shanty town where the locals have lashed up a couple of bungalows here and a tourist restaurant there to serve the back packers, and [View Full Entry]

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Friday May 29th 2009 4000 islands The others that had come to the island with us left Don Khong for Don Det this morning but we decided to hang around. Mary stomach took a bit of a turn so she wasn’t feeling the best so we lied in til about 12. We were going to do a little boat trip out on the river or rent bikes or something for the day but in the end we just decided to go for a walk down the riverbank through the farm lands. I am glad we stayed on Don Khong, its very [View Full Entry]

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Thursday May 28th 2009 4000 islands We arrived in Chumpon at 6am and waited for a bus to take us down to the 4,000 islands. We had originally planned to go to Dong Det which is just before all the waterfalls but upon hearing that electricity runs only there by generator between 6 and 10 pm leaving you without even a fan to sleep with we headed to the more settled local island of Dong Kong where they are hooked to the grid. Met a South African couple and an Israeli guy on the short longtail over the river and we [View Full Entry]

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Hello!! After finally making it to the Laos border, we headed for Khong Island (one of the 4000 islands in the South of Laos) via bus and boat, arriving mid-afternoon to find that there was currently no electricity on the island so our room was almost unbearable in the heat without a fan or air conditioning! Unfortunately, Michi was ill that day/night so we didn't really do much, although the next day we decided we would give riding a moped ourselves a go! We spent most of the morning and afternoon driving around the island, which was really fun, and eventually [View Full Entry]

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23.03.09 - We didn't really do much in the 4000 islands. We had planned to cycle around but seriously, in that heat? So we went for more gentle walks and just enjoyed the beautiful views from the many restaurant spots overlooking the islands. The scenery is really great (and there wasn't any slash and burn induced fog in the south) and again, you get the local flavour as the kids all swim in the river after school (sometimes next to buffalos cooling themselves off) and watching people fish. The pace of life is so incredibly slow again that you almost stop [View Full Entry]

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>>> DON'T MISS THE ENGLISH VERSION! PLEASE SCROLL DOWN IN ALL OF OUR BLOGS. ;-) Tag 138 bis 159 22.600 km gefahren von Galway Wir warteten einige Zeit auf die Faehre um den Mekong kreuzen zu koennen. Letzendlich gut auf laotischer Seite angekommen ging es auch schon gleich zum Zoll. Die Grenzformalitaeten gingen mit unserem Zolldokument (Carnet de Passages) absolut reibungslos ueber die Buehne - prima Sache! Bei der Passkontrolle gab es auch gleich noch das Visum eingestempelt und schon waren wir fertig. So schnell kann’s gehen ... Hier trafen wir auch auf ein Fah [View Full Entry]

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Hi Everyone :-) Hope everything is good back at home? And no more nail bombs in Exeter?? How weird! Sorry we havn't blogged for a while - we are in Cambodia already but will have to backdate due to lack of internet action lately! (Also thats why you havn't had any emails guys, sorry). We will do the Cambodia blog soon as well now we are back in some kind of civilisation. Anyway... from Pakse in Central Laos we headed south to Champasak to get a taster for things to come at Angkor. Our journey there was a real experience - [View Full Entry]

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