So first of all- Happy Shavout! In a bit of a delay.
Right now we are back in Vien Tian after being in 4,000 Islands.
Vien Tian is the capital of Laos- only it's smaller than Afula and does not resemble a city what so ever. There are many temples and it's right by the Mekong river.
On Tuesday we (Gil, David- a friend of Gil's from Germany and me) arrived here and Gil and I went to the Chinese embassy to deposit our passports and now that we're back our Chinese visas should be ready.
In between we spent a day in a half in 4,000 Island- it's a 50K area by the Mekong river in which there are, sure enough- about 4,000 islands. Most of them are tiny, and in the winter are under water, but a few of them are settled- like the one we went to- Don Det (Don=island in Lao). It was awfully hot and humid, but beautiful- they only have electricity between the hours of 18:00-22:00- and with generators. Oy vay.
On our way back we went to Pakse (a town in the way) and went to visit the waterfalls- they are simply gorgeous.
So now we are back here, we are about to meet Nir (who is arriving from Thailand) and to pick up our visas and then we are moving on to Vang Vieng which is a small town about 3 hours away.
The weather is SO gross... it's kinda funny- out of 5 nights this week we spent 3 nights in a bus! For some reason they insisted on playing Lao Karaoke DVD for like 3 hours on they to the Islands and back. Well, what doesn't kill you make you stronger.
Right now we are back in Vien Tian after being in 4,000 Islands.
Vien Tian is the capital of Laos- only it's smaller than Afula and does not resemble a city what so ever. There are many temples and it's right by the Mekong river.
On Tuesday we (Gil, David- a friend of Gil's from Germany and me) arrived here and Gil and I went to the Chinese embassy to deposit our passports and now that we're back our Chinese visas should be ready.
In between we spent a day in a half in 4,000 Island- it's a 50K area by the Mekong river in which there are, sure enough- about 4,000 islands. Most of them are tiny, and in the winter are under water, but a few of them are settled- like the one we went to- Don Det (Don=island in Lao). It was awfully hot and humid, but beautiful- they only have electricity between the hours of 18:00-22:00- and with generators. Oy vay.
On our way back we went to Pakse (a town in the way) and went to visit the waterfalls- they are simply gorgeous.
So now we are back here, we are about to meet Nir (who is arriving from Thailand) and to pick up our visas and then we are moving on to Vang Vieng which is a small town about 3 hours away.
The weather is SO gross... it's kinda funny- out of 5 nights this week we spent 3 nights in a bus! For some reason they insisted on playing Lao Karaoke DVD for like 3 hours on they to the Islands and back. Well, what doesn't kill you make you stronger.
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