Slow Boat down the Mekong

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After CM we drove to Chiang Khong in order to cross the border into Laos. CK is a small town with not much there but we found a nice place to eat and a hippie bar. The hotel overlooked the Mekong river and had fab sunrise views at 5.30am. It was soon time to pile into some Tuk Tuks and clear Thai immigration to cross the Mekong to Laos soil and join our boat crew for a 2 day journey down the Mekong. Clearing Laos immigration was pretty quick and then we changed some Thai Bahts into Laos Kip ( 20,000 kip to 1 dollar so you get lots of notes!!). The scenary along the Mekong was superb and we stopped off at Pak Beng for the night which is a nice sleepy town. On the 2nd day we stopped off at a few villages which was a great experience seeing how the locals live. In one village you can buy this whisky with a dead snake or scorpion in so I purchased a bottle for a few dollars ( haven't drunk it yet though!!).

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Photos

Sunrise over the Mekong
Magnificant !!!

Guesthouse
Great views of the Mekong

Tuk Tuk
Bundle !!!

Alfie meets some friends
My travel mascot Alfie Doughty makes some friends on the Mekong and has a Beer Laos

First Beer Laos
The best beer in Indo China and SEA

Comments

[Frog princess]

Alfie Doughty looks like the real thing! Getting down and dirty with a toy