Tha Khaek to Pakse
Posted by Anita Sun, 05 Aug 2007 05:20:00 GMT
Location: Pakse, Laos
Tha Khaek was quite interesting. The Tha Khaek travel lodge which was the guest house we were staying at seemed to be the only thing around aimed at tourists. It was very nice, with a fire pit outside for sitting around and an ok resturaunt.
In the morning we decided to go down town to get breakfast because we usually find that there are several good places down town with maybe a better menu or outlook or somehing.
However what we hadn’t counted on was the walk to town being about 3km and the day was already sweltering hot. When we finally go there it was like nothing was open. There were a few places around with mystery meat barbequing outside but nothing like what we expected. After wandering around a bit we found a place where wat we ordered was not what we got and the bill was different again.
The buildings in the town were pretty cool though I took a few photos and we took a tuk-tuk back to guesthouse in time to check out at 12.
We had intended to take the overnight bus to Pakse and spend the day (hopefully) relaxing beside a swimming hole or waterfall but enquiries about anything like that in the area revealed that the closest one was 20 odd km out of town and would be too expensive to get to and back so we just went straight to the bus station and caught the next bus to Pakse.
We spent and hour and a half in Savanahket on the way and arrived in Pakse at about 11pm. This was very lucky because the guesthouse we got closed at midnight.
Reto and Sylvia headed off to 4000 islands this morning. So we said our farewells. We plan to spend a day resting and planning some travel around Pakse. At this stage we plan to head bak to Thailand on Wednesday.
