From Cambodia, Dan and I took a speed boat to Laos which sounds exciting but, after sitting next to a noisy engine for an hour in a rather uncomfortable position, I was glad it was all over reasonably quickly. The rest of the speedboat crew contained two Danish guys, an English couple plus the token Aussie. For a short while we were stuck in international no-mans land as after the Cambodian border no-one who sold us the travel ticket had told us where we should head next. Eventually we worked out that we should walk 500 metres up the road to Laos where we had to bribe, sorry, pay various “official” charges, to get into the country. Once there we headed to Don Det, part of the 4000 Islands region on the mighty Mekong River. Don
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