Set off quite early – 8:30 to tour four villages. The first one [Khieng Tang Le – see headline photo] was not so interesting, nor as friendly as yesterday’s Nge village.
Second village [Pho Tok] had large spirit house and a shamen who wanted us to cure him! – Daisy gave him some E 45 cream for his affliction.
Third village [Tadsung] was very poor and the only real highlight was the hydroelectric dam at the waterfall.
Fourth village [Na Nong] was a mixture of tribes – interesting to see. We prove most popular in the Buddhist part, while Ged got teased for his pale skin in the Ta Oy part.
Light lunch followed by relaxing pm at our bungalow…
…and early supper in preparation for tomorrow’s daftly early start.
That daft start the next morning led to one of my favourite travel stories – the tale of us jumping the border from Laos into Thailand… we sort of had no choice…
Photos 52 to 75 in the album linked here and below show the events of this day:
