Our last morning in Champasak, we lazed around by the river, and managed to research our upcoming travels, before our boat came. Surprisingly, it was only the tow of us, but they neither tried to charge us extra or persuade us that it was not going. We simply sat there, on a large, lovely boat (with actual wicker chairs!) and watched the scenery. The trip was just over two hours, and we were in Pakse before dark. Now that is a day's travelling we could get used to... We were originaly going to be in Pakse between Xmas and New Year's, so we had booked a place to stay when everything was full, and ended up with the scraps. We had, however, changed our dates since, so we ended up with the scraps when everything else
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