I spent the last nine days thoroughly relaxing in the 4000 Islands, a bit touristy, but still very laidback part of Laos near the Cambodian border where there are as many water buffaloes as people, and the only electricity available is supplied from generators... It was such a beautiful place, I really regret not taking more photographs, but my camera battery ran out, and I had a lot of trouble recharging it! Going for a walk, there were so many palm trees everywhere, which really made you feel like you were at the beach, which was great for relaxing. I did see a couple of sort-of beaches on another island (patches of sand on riverbanks), and I think there would have been more had it not been for rainy season. But because the water level was
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