Don Khon

Last night, we managed to find the only place on the island with a pool table so we had a long drawn out game of pool and some dinner. It was very quiet in all the resturants so we went back to chill in the hammocks and read. We had a very early night, we were in bed before 10pm. We had just got into bed when all the electricity went off, we assumed it was just a power cut. The electricity didn't come back on and was still off this morning...we then realised that the island only has electricity from 6pm until 10pm! So, if you're not in bed before 10pm when the island turns into complete darkness, then theres no chance of finding your bed (you can imagine how difficult it is trying to use the squat tiolet in the middle of the night!)

We were up and out and on our bikes by 9am this morning ready to explore Don Khon island. We cycled 25 kilometres around Don Det and Don Khon, through all the pretty fields and villages. We cycled down to the largest waterfall in Asia (volume-wise) which was amazing! We were very impressed. I couldn't capture it all in one photo because it was so huge!

We then continued to cycle down to the beach, not exactly the type of beach you would like to sunbathe or swim at. The sand was really sparkly, like it had glitter in it, anybody know why? It looked very pretty anyway.

We stopped off for lunch at a cute resturant along the river then relaxed in the hammocks for a couple of hours, to get out of the sun.

This evening we hired a wooden boat with a man and his young son to take us on a trip around the islands to watch the sun set. The sunset was beautiful and the islands and the river looked very pretty. At one point we were sailing on the Mekong with Cambodia at one side of us and Laos at the other side, which was quite cool.

The little boy drove the boat the whole way around the islands.

Cambodia

We've had a fantastic couple of days on the islands, it's definately worth coming here if you're heading to Laos, its one of our favourite places. We're up early tomorrow to catch a boat and two buses to Savanhket for a couple of days, (hopefully they have electricity there!)

xxx