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Islands in the Mekong - Four thousand islands LaosWhen travelling south from Southern Laos along the mighty Mekong River to Cambodia, you'll pass an area filled with islands called Sipandone. During the dry season, when water-levels have slowly dropped, many of the islands emerge from the river and approximately 4000 islands are created. You'll stay at several of the larger islands where life goes by at a slow pace. While in the area of the four thousand islands in Laos, you can bicycle ride past paddy-fields or try to spot fresh water dolphins during a boat trip. |
Duration | 3 days/ 2 nights | Accommodation | Two nights in a comfortable hotel with private facilities. |
Price | £126 per person - based on 2 people | Included | Transportation, accommodation with breakfast |
Bus and ferry | Excluded | All other meals and excursions |
Day 1: Boloven/Pakse - Khong Island (Siphandon)If you're beginning this four thousand islands Laos module directly after our Waterfalls and rainforests of the Boloven plateau trip, you will be be collected from your hotel near the roaring waterfalls in Tad Fane a transfered to Pakse, where this module will start.Alternatively, if you're staying in Pakse the night before the module begins, will be collected directly from your hotel. Or, if you're arriving in Pakse by flight on the morning of the module, you'll be picked up at the airport. We'll arrange your tickets for you to travel south by comfortable minibus towards Khong Island, along with other travellers heading in the same direction. Just short of the Cambodian border you'll board a ferry and cross this mighty river to reach the island of Khong. This area of islands is also known as Sipandone (4000 islands). During the dry season a large number of small islands and sandbanks. You'll spend the night in one of the more luxurious hotels on Khong Island, a colourful and cosy guest house. During your first evening in the four thousand islands area of Laos, try a typical Laotian dish in the hotel's restaurant or one of the many other local ones. |
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Day 2: Khong IslandToday is a free day for you to explore the island independently. Khong Island is mostly made up of paddy-fields, hills, vegetable gardens and small villages. Bicycles are an excellent means of transportation on the island. The staff at your hotel's reception area can arrange a boat trip for you to the various surrounding islands such as Don Det and Don Khon.The Siphandone area, with its waterfalls and rapids, is the largest fluid roadblock for cargo transportation on the Mekong from Laos to Cambodia. In the previous century, French colonists built a railway on Don Khone in an attempt to solve this problem. The railway hasn't been used in quite some time; however an old French locomotive and railway-bridge still remain as memories of days gone by. |
Day 3: Khong Island - Pakse (end of four thousand islands Laos module)After you've checked out this morning, the guest house staff on Khong Island will take you to the local bus station, where you'll arrange your own bus tickets back to Pakse, where the four thousand islands module ends. You could also continue your travels south and cross the Cambodia border. We can arrange a transfer to take you from Khong Island to this border where you can then choose from one of the Cambodia travel modules. |
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