<!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> After sharing the room with a small family of cockroaches last night, again we didn't get much sleep. Up at 6.30 so we could have breakfast before getting the boat across to the mainland at 8.00am. As we wouldn't be returning to Laos we spent our remaining 100,000 Kip on a good breakfast and bought some food and water for the 12 hour journey south. Once on the mainland we would get a minibu...

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<!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --> We were up at 5.30 this morning to get out bus to Don Det, one of the 4000 islands. Using a Tuk-Tuk, we arrived at the bus station 9k out of town and hung around for a while before boarding the truck full of locals, big bags of sugar, roofing tiles and of course a motorbike! The journey took 3 and a half bumpy hours and we arrived at the pier where we needed to get the boat to our island, Do...

The bus gave us a few hours of broken sleep which was good considering the roads, so we arrived in Pakse as promised at 6.30am. Rachael had here first cold from the trip due to three night in AC.......... Attacked by the tuk-tuk drivers again we left the bus terminus by foot with the hassle every couple of minutes. One mistakenly crossed a tired Rachael and got it in the mouth........ Feeling tried we walked through town and stumbled upon Amy and Mel who we...

After being woken by the alarm at 1.45am, Tom then commenced to make sure Rachael was awake also by flicking through all the TV channels for the next fifteen minutes trying to find the football! He eventually found it being broadcast on a Laos channel, unfortunately the picture was in black and white and the quality awful, and of course the commentary was in Laos! After a few tears and realising that it was a lost cause we went back to sleep hoping to see a repea...