Pakse

Trip Start Nov 27, 2010

Trip End Dec 12, 2011

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Thalung Hotel

Flag of Lao Peoples Dem Rep Pakse, Champasak, Lao Peoples Dem Rep
Wednesday, March 2, 2011

We knew before we arrived there that we would only be using Pakse as slingshot for two other places in Southern Laos – the Bolaven Plateau and Si Phan Don (Four Thousand islands).

There isn't really that much to do in the city itself in terms of site-seeing (despite it being the old French colonial capital of the South) although we did venture out to see the Champasak Historical Heritage Museum – which documents the history of the province – although it felt like a slightly larger Norris Museum with a few bombs and guns in it.

There were a few nice coffee shops and by all accounts the food was cheap and tasty. We met another English couple at our hotel on one of the nights and decided to go for a curry but that about all we really did in Pakse.

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