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We took the small hour journey over to the next Island south of Don Khong with Sam and Claire, it's a much smaller island but has a really good waterfall on it, so we decided to stop there for 2 nights before crossing the border. After much traipsing about looking for a hut we found one right on the Mekong (seriously you cant get away from this river) the owner gave us our very own 'vip' section away room the other guests and we had our very own hammocks.We were all a but exhausted from the previous couple of days antics so we made the decision to 'take it easy' !In no time at all Clare pipes up who wants a drink (at this point Sam was lying on the bed with a liter of water 'cos she was dehydrated and feeling quite ill), and so from 3pm we started on the drink again (even Sam- shes a Scottish lass, she could handle it!) , but its ok we had hammocks!We had such a laugh that day, An Aussie guy Nathan joined us at?well I'm not sure what time it was because the electricity we had Aaron broke so we had candle light so it could have been anytime! Yeah a pretty cool day all round in our very own nightclub with me and Sam as DJ's at last i have found someone with the same taste in music as me.Next day we hired bikes yet again and went in search of the waterfall.These roads were untouched so it was about an hour which probably on a normal road would have taken about 20 minutes, Yeah it was pretty easy once we were near as it was the biggest waterfall in south east Asia all we had to do was follow our ears. So many different falls all gushing into one river and the noise from it was so loud!We had heard from others that just past the waterfall there was a beach?well just some sand on the bank of the river and a lagoon type thing so we went off in search of it.When we got to the 'beach' we all stripped off and went for a much needed cool down, it was about 20 foot away from some serious rapids so we didn't venture to far out!After a bit of swimming we all had a bit of a sunbathe, we have typical travelers tans, arms, shoulder, face, legs?and a white middle and bum!So were all lying there and we hear the typical water buffalo sound (the bell around its neck, how annoying would that be!) and watched in horror as they went to the patch we had been swimming in and started to do their business!I felt so dirty, we didn't go back in as you may have guessed.So next a load of Israeli's and Germans and the rest of the united nations come down and do what we did, I made everyone stay there until more water buffalo came down just to see the faces, and it was Priceless! So exhausted we started to make our way back and that thing you call karma came and bit us right on our arses as we went in the wrong direction for about a mile going past a load of backpackers who didn't tell us we were heading for another beach. But we got home at last for a much needed shower after swimming in water buffalo do-do and a whiskey!
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