I did a three day trek around Dong Phu Vieng NP. I had a fantastic time. There were ten of us on the trip plus our two guides. There were two french couples, two Australian girls, an Israeli couple, an American girl and myself. DAY ONE We travelled in a sawngthaew for two hours, picking up locals and dropping them off in different places. Savannakhet is well known for dinosaur footprints so we saw a few near a small river. They were quite small, with three claws. I was expecting bigger and more impressive prints. Then we travelled two more hours in the sawngthaew. It was a really pretty road, passing rice fields and there were plenty of mountain ranges in the distance. Once we got off the main road, it was 21km of dirt road.
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