Vientaine to Khong Island
January 20th 2006 Up at 03h30 to pack and be at the airport for 5 for our flight to Pakse. Air Lao plane is full, mostly tourists. At Pakse, we are met by our local guide and driver in a nine seat Kia van. A little overboard, methinks. We haven't that much luggage. Nonetheless, it is quiet and comfortable over the potholes.
We take a car ferry, pushed across the Mekong by a black smoke belching metal hulled b
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