Published: December 28th 2011December 27th 2011
So you left us on the night train to Ubon Ratchathani in North East Thailand. We arrived at around 9.30am but at around 7 we have had made our way to the dining car and had a thai take on an american breakfast.
On arrival in Ubon we made our way to Warin Market to catch the bus to Chong Mek in order to cross into Laos, this wasn't quite that simple as the bus only took us half the way the we had to change into a pickup truck. But, We made it out of Thailand and into Laos and had a steaming bowl of beef (Water Buffalo) Noodle soup then into another pickup to get to Pakse - the driver refused to leave until he had at least 7 passengers for the trip to Pakse, which when it's midday heat, is very annoying.
So by 2pm we'd made it to Pakse central market - an 18 hour trip from Bangkok, just when we thought we were home and dry it appeared that no-one in town had heard of the Imoun Homestay - this was a slight problem as we'd paid to stay there. This tends to be a problem in Laos all the time and isn't helped by the fact that the concept of maps has passed them by. Eventually Lee directed the driver to the road it was on and we got there.
Quick shower and out to see the town and have a quick 'beer Lao' by the Mekong (yes Chris it still taste good)
In truth we were all tired by this stage and we needed to chill, we had a quick snack and went into town for some more noodles, afterwards back and nights sleep on an extremely hard bed. Note - These noodles were very good but Dawn and Rick put a very small amount of dry chilli flakes in it - BIG MISTAKE.
Tomorrow, southern Laos and Kingfisher Ecolodge www.kingfisherecolodge.com
Dawn and Lee Croucher are keen to find a world beyond the shops, reality TV and two weeks in the Sun. Having travelled extensively through India, South East Asia, Morocco and in 2010 got married in a Tree House in the South African bush. We will now start to document our travels, not particularly for the benefit of others, but for if/when we are unable to travel and explore we can at least sit back and look at places that may not longer exist or view pictures of animals that have long since been obliterated by the progress of man. Most of all we want to remember what we did and say ‘What ... full info
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