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Thousand Island Resting
(Jul 17 '06)
"Nearly everyone we passed called out "Sabidye" or hello to us"
We set off for Don Khon island which is the southernmost island
of the Si Phan Don (thousand islands) on the Mekong in Laos. From
Stung ...
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Hammock Time
(Dec 15 '06)
Lying in a hammock staring out at the river I don't think the pace of life could go any slower. I've been on the island of Don Det for the past 4 days and it really has been great.
In the very ...
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The 4000 Islands of Southern Laos
(Apr 28 '07)
Si Phan Don (Lao for '4000 Islands') is a beautiful area of southern Laos, just along the Cambodian border. It is where the Mekong River, the lifeblood of Laos, spreads out incredibely wide creating ...
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Si Phon Don
(Jul 24 '05)
For the past 5 days I have been in Laos (pronounced without the s its French spelling.)
I am currently in Pakse (pronounced Pak-say) and it is raining buckets. It is supposed to be the rainy ...
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Don Det
(Apr 25 '07)
We chose the island of Don Det to stay on. It was UNBELIEVABLY hot and by 8pm I was on my fourth litre of water for the day! Even the locals stayed in the shade and complained about the heat… but ...
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February 24, 2006
The night of our arrival in Si Phan Don we stayed on Don Kong, the biggest (15km long) of the 4,000 small islands strewn about this wide section of ...
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4000 ways to chill out.
(Jan 28 '07)
We'd found a rickety hut of the beach variety next to the river for a measly pound twenty five each. Sadly this meant there was no electric between 10am and 6pm but hey..what do you expect for silly ...
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Riding Around the Island
(Nov 26 '07)
Being on the sunrise side of Don Det, despite having all three of my windows shut, it was pretty light in the morning, so there wasn't really the option of sleeping in. I decided to rent a bicycle ...
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The next morning we set off early for the border with Laos. In what has got to be the strangest border crossing either of us has ever experienced we took a ...
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The 4000 islands is where the Mekong enlarges to a 14 km width where a lot of small and not so small islands emerge. Most of them are not reachable unless you ...
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I met two dudes from holland that were heading from pakse to 4000 islands as well. We got to the local bus station ( a dirt field) where we got ...
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Laos - Savannakhet & Don Det
(Mar 04 '08)
(Since the flickr integration for the photos is not working here is a direct link to our photos hosted on flickr: http://www.flickr.com /photos/12111891@N03 )
Heading further south our next stop ...
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Si Phan Don: Four thousand photos
(Jan 27 '08)
Tara, Erica and I left the Bolaven Plateau for Pakse on the 27th Jan. Our intention was to head straight for the bus station and make our way to Si Phan Don, further south near the border with ...
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