Mekong flows past at Champasak

Mekong flows past at Champasak

Mekong flows past at Champasak

Taken on: 4th December, 2004. Copyright: All Rights Reserved - See travelfishery's page of Flickr

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On the western bank of the slow-flowing Mekong River, some 40km south of Pakse, sits the quaint riverside town of Champasak. A modest place, Champasak is popular with backpackers who are either visiting Wat Phu or who have been attracted by the generally very relaxed pace of life. Without the hustle and bustle of Pakse and certainly without the crowds of Don Dhet and Don Khon, Champasak retains the best of both worlds, all well-wrapped-up in a blanket of traditional Lao hospitality.

The Khmer-period ruins of Wat Phu, some eight kilometres to the southwest of "town", were granted their UNESCO World Heritage status in 2001, but aside from a large carpark, a semi-modern looking administrative centre and a museum, the ruins ... Read our complete Champasak travel guide

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Lonely Wanderer Thick Brew On the other Side Washday Mekong Ferry Pump it up! Across the Mekong Doesn't look as if it could carry Cars and Trucks The ferry Village Worried about Business Enfenced My little green Cactus Unshaved Lychees Riding on three Wheels Exotic Fruits Mekong Fish The 'safe' Part of the Market A Pile of Fish and some weird looking Insect Frogs anyone? Encaged and not yellow yet Finally some packaged Stuff Just yellow Chicken Jona's Whale Very appetizing Some Liver with that, Sir? What a weird Sight in Laos... Waiting at the Vat Stop Sticky Rice Bullets Lettuce Lorry Jailed Lettuce Firestarters Heat Blur Vat Tham Fai Stupas in a Line Hot Air and Stupas Vat Tham Fai Lao Nagesh Ninas and Stupas Smoke dried Robes Losing his Pants Overgrown Who sank my Boat?? The Mouth of the Xe (aka Pakxe) Rooftop Construction Gooooong Golden Viking Temple Schroedinger's Cats