Tuesday 25th March 2008

We've decided that we're going to start heading South now, so that we can move across into Cambodia - but first we want to visit a place we've heard about called Four Thousand Islands. It's right at the bottom of Laos - so we're going to break up our journey and make a stop in a small place called Pakse. We got up and then booked ourselves onto one of the sleeper buses for tonight. Then we spent the rest of the day just wandering around in the sunshine. First of all we went for breakfast in a really posh café, and both had bagels with cream cheese. Next, after wandering around town for a few hours, we stopped in a small café - where we sat for a few hours and wrote our postcards for the people at home.

At about 5.30pm this evening we walked round to the office where we'd bought our bus tickets and they drove us to the bus. We thought we were gonna be on our way straight away, but it turned out we had to wait in the bus station for a few hours. While we were there, we had the most suspect of pork sandwiches - it included about four different 'types' of pork - one of which was covered in fur! Nikki couldn't manage all of her half, but I did...

The bus left the bus station at just after 8pm and me and Nikki were well happy because, not only was the bed pretty comfy - but it was also a double - so we got to sleep together... woohoo!

Yippee! Double sleeper-bus bed... Rock On!