Another lazy day for us on our last day in Laos! We slept late before venturing out for some breakfast/lunch. We spent móst òf the day in 4000 Island Bar where the wifi was reliable, drinking fruit shakes (water melon shake = yum!) and using the internet. Later in the afternoon we went back to the beach for a quick lást swim before getting ready early to catch the sunset again. Unfortunately, the sunset wasn't ás good tonight ás it was quite cloudy - good j...

Day 2 of doing very little in Don Det...the island is tiny, with two paths (not roads) that run down each side of the island, a bridge across to Don Khon island and guesthouses, restaurants and bars scattered along each path...that's about it! It's nice being somewhere so quiet for a few days before we head to Cambodia. The only problem is the usual group of idiot tourists who come and make a mess of the place; the litter problem is quite bad here and will only g...

An early start today to catch our bus to Don Det island. We had to go to the restaurant where we bought our tickets so we went a bit earlier to get some breakfast first. As we were walking in, I managed to trip over somehow, so that's twice I've fallen over while carrying my backpack in the space of a week! The other time was in Kong Lo where they'd just mopped the floor in our hotel and I slipped right over. As we were waiting, we saw a minivan go past crammed...

Nothing to get up early for in Pakse today so we enjoyed a bit of a lie-in and then went for breakfast at Delta Coffee, which we've kind of adopted as our cafe of choice since we've been here! The coffee is really good and before leaving we bought some to take home as presents for a bargain price. Today we were planning on visiting Wat Phu Champasak, one of the largest and most famous temples in Laos, but the heat was so overpowering on our walk to the coffee s...

Our pick-up for our day tour of the Bolaven Plateau was at 8am today, so we got up early and went for breakfast as we knew it was going to be a long day! We were the first to be picked up and were soon joined by a German couple, a French man, a Vietnamese girl and a guy who was born in Laos but was brought up in Germany! As you can tell, we can't remember any of their names now! We also had an English speaking guide who sat in the front of the minibus with the dr...