100cc of Honda 4 stroke power - No faster than 90km/hr - Averaging 30km/hr… You don’t want to go any faster. Off the main road there are potholes, when there’s good roads there are other hazards… young children running across the road, ducks, chickens, cows, dogs, buffalo, other cars, motorbikes, chickens, roosters, snakes and pigs. The need for concentrating is at a premium. After 3 exhausting days this was the best activity I did in Laos. Pakse in the south of Laos is the last major city before you hit Cambodia. At first glance it is a nothing place. A major transport hub, it is the start and finish point of a brilliant motorbike journey to the Bolaven Plateau. $15 a day to hire, it takes in another part of Laos. This is the less hidden
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