We met everyone outside our guesthouse and went for breakfast. Lee had said he was going to get up with max, Julian and gareth at 5am to watch the monks walk through the street (loads of monks walk through the town with a bucket like object and people in the street give them food) Lee and max didnt get up but Julian and Gareth did. The pictures looked cool!
We managed to get a group discount with the tuk tuk driver to take us to the waterfall. You've got to negotiate everything in advance! Price, pick up & drop off. We arrived so me and Lee paid and went straight in. We got no ticket so two of the girls thought they'd try their luck and just walk in... Yep they got in for free! The rest arranged a group discount it just hoes to show even fixed official ticket prices aren't fixed! We saw the bears first. They're bears that have been rescued and they now spend their days playing in their swing and climbing in their enclosure. We carried on walking and came to the last natural pool left by the waterfall. As we climbed up the way the water fell and formed around the rocks changed and looked amazing, a truly natural splendor. In one of the pools someone had attached a rope swing. It was scary climbing the tree never mind swinging but I did it, with Penny counting 1,2,3! The water was freezing.
Me and lee decided to climb to the top of the waterfall... We climbed and climbed, the path sort of vanished so we were actually climbing, then we made it. We'd gone even higher than we thought. We went down to the bottom (more ran down it was that steep) at one point Lee nearly ran off the end but he caught a tree in time... We decided to go for a dip in a mini waterfall pool then met back up with the bus gang and did more swinging into the water. We made our way back to the tuk tuk. We arranged for a last supper (we were all parting the following day) for 8pm then went off to shower.
We all met up and decided we were going to try the 10,000 kip all you can eat street buffet then Tracy came with the lonely planet guide and suggested a restaurant that was highly recommended so we all set off to find it. We found a big Buddha whilst walking the streets but nobody was interested (we were starving) and as Max pointed out 'you can't eat it' so we kept walking. We found it and to cut a long story short it was way too expensive, food places were stopping to serve so lee ran the streets ahead of us and managed to find somewhere who would serve us.
Turns out this one place had very little food left and didn't tell us until we got our plates 1 hour - 2 hours later (depending on which end of the table you were sitting). We found out the vegetable noodles had no noodles left so it was a small plate of veg/plants. Lee was ok. Others didn't have rice in their rice dishes etc...
We made do with what we had then went for a drink in the street on the guesthouse step. We said our goodbyes then retired for the night.