The view from our little wooden hut.Don Det is a very small and quiet island on the Mekong river. Its lined with wooden huts and some cute resturants along the river. There are a few backpackers here but there is a very laid back atmosphere (dont think there'll be any vodka buckets here). We managed to find ourselves a wooden shed with a barred window and barely enough room for both Nikki and I to stand in. It also comes with a luxury squat toilet! Nothing but four star for us girls.
This is why the word Ghetto was invented!
Note the lovely bathroom 'door' on the right. I just love the Tom and Jerry pillow! Our room has one pink light bulb in the corner, which is our only source of light ( I had to put my super big flash on to take this photo) and the light switch is on the hut next door!
It does have a little area with lots of hammocks on the river which is pretty.
The island does have electricity between 6pm and 10am, thank goodness, I wont have to listen to Nikki moan about the heat when we're going to sleep! But no electricity during the day means no air con or fans to tackle the 33 degree heat and no swimming pools or beaches for us to cool down in which makes the heat pretty unbearable.
After we arrived and checked in to our fabulous wooden shed, we hired some 1950's bikes (we're very into our cycling now) to explore the island a bit more.
We really enjoyed riding along the river, through the gorgous green feilds and little villages. 
The village school (how cute!)
The local bus station...would you get in one of those 'buses'?
It was very picturesque...until i got a puncture (you can image the scene wasn't too pretty then). It sounded like my bike had actually exploded. So, i had to walk all the way back, and it was a long way back, pushing my broken bike in the hot, humid mid-day sun! When I Finally I got it repaired, we set off again on a different path. we have hired bikes alot recently and learnt how to dodge mopeds, trucks, bikes, food stalls and street kids, but what we hadnt prepared for was bulls. They were everywhere, and quite scary to be honest! We rode all around the island and went accross the bridge to Don Khon island which we are going to explore a bit more tomorrow. On our way back we stopped at the bakery for some yummy homemade cakes.
We're just off to get something to eat and maybe a quiet drink, but i don't think theres much going on here past sunset so we'll probabaly be having a very early night ready to tackle the bikes and bulls tomorrow morning!
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