Filling my pants
March 17th 2007 Si Phan Don is a landlocked archipelago in the Mekong, just above the Laos border with Cambodia. Its name means 4,000 Islands, a notional rather than strictly accurate indication of the profusion of sandbanks, islets, and full-blown islands in the area. Reaching it was a tedious process.
The guesthouse in Pakxe tried to tell us there were no seats available on the minibus, even though we'd book
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