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Had a great couple of days in Vang Vieng. The countryside is beautifully picturesque and the locals very friendly and chilled out. After leaving there i headed straight down to Don Det, one of the four thousand islands in the Mekong at the very bottom of Laos. Life down here has a very chilled out feeling and they have trouble moving at anything more than snails pace!! Indeed we had to wait for an hour and a half in one restaurant for them to bring the meals out that we had ordered. The cook clearly did not want to work up too much of a sweat by attempting to do more than one at atime. Is fine though as there is really not very much to do except sit back and enjoy the scenery. The island only has electricity for 4 hours in the evening so is blissfully tranquil and the bungalows are very cheap. I met a Japanese and an Australian on the bus and we ended up[ sharing a cabin with a huge bed, $1 a night each. I did wake up on the first night though with Che, the aussie, gripping my head with her fingers. Apparently she was having a very vivid dream about coconuts!! She was mortified in the morning but i barely even woke up, such a heavy sleeper that i just half came to and fell straight back to sleep. No vivid dreams the second night.
The sunsets and sunrises (Mami the Japanese girl woke me up in time to see one) were beautiful and was nice to chill in a hammock for a few days. We also went to see the biggest waterfall in South East Asia which was impressive. Met a Belgian woman and we discovered that she had been on an exchange with Prince William School when she was younger and had been to the Ship. Amazing, such a small world'! Was such a relaxing couple of days was hard to drag myself away but got a bus the next mornbing to Kratie, in Cambodia. To get to the border you had to drive miles into the undergrowth down a potholed road. Started to wonder if we would ever get out the other side but eventually made it into Cambodia. So good to see the Cambodian people again. had forgotten how friendly they arte and felt almost like coming home!
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