We got up early to head to Pakse. Originally we'd planned to go to Si Phan Don, 4000 islands or Backpacker Islands, but in the end we decided that we'd move the plan forward a couple of days and have a few days at the Coast in Cambodia. We give Bo a nice big tip and he took us (+bags) down the road to wait for the bus. We got there at 09:15 for the 09:30 bus. The bus came at 10:45! (Tom: It came at 11 more like) Ah well these things happen in Lao, I've wait...

The bus broke down 10 mins outside of Pakse, it was so comfortable compared to the other ones we'd been on; even if something did drip on us during the night - i was glad i didn't see the ants crawling around until morning though! Fortunately the replacement bus arrive after about 10 mins and we were in Pakse by 7:30. A quick hop in a tuk tuk shared with the german guy got us across town to the local bus station and we had 10h to wait for the next bus to Tadlo....