Wat Poo! and the end of Loas

We got a hellish bus overnight from the Capital of Laos in the north to the city of Pakse in the south. The company was late picking us up, we were told to come to the hotel at 6:30pm, which we did after having a lovely meat feast sitting by the river, Loas sausage, grilled fish and massive pork chop: Kieran was in massive meaty heaven, and Eleanor enjoyed the veg Laos soup, extra garlic! The people did not pick us up in a tuk tuk until 8pm when we got told that the bus was due to leave, the bus station was so far from town that I began to think that the tuk tuk was going to drive us all the way to the south.

When we arrived at the bus station the Pakse bus was pulling out of the station, we both screamed at it to stop, but were told that there was another one leaving soon, oh shite I thought, I have heard this somewhere before, but no there was a bus, trouble is the only seats were at the back, where the seats do not recline and also one was in the middle with nowhere to put your feet, it was not the best bus ride we have ever had, especially as on every bump I jumped a foot in the air...nice.

Anyway, enough bitching! We got there earlier than expected and managed to get to Champusak which is a cool ride across the river on a ferry (Laos style) which is the town next to Wat Phu, Laos next best thing to Angkor Wat in Cambodia. We got recommended to go and as we are heading to Angkor Wat next we thought it would make a nice intro.



We Booked into to a lovely guesthouse on the river and hired a moto to ride to the Wat. It was lovely, much different than any temple / ruin that I have seen so far, and chilling out in the guest house was almost as good, lovely view, which we saw for about 1/2 an hour as we both passed out....

I got stung above the eye on the way back to the guesthouse. I nearly took us off the bike as I tried to shake the damn stinging (not identified) thing out of my eye. For those of you that don't know I am hyperallergic to wasps so this really ruined (no pun intended) my day.

I swallowed two anti-histamines and rode back to the guesthouse, wondering in the back of my head how I was going to get air lifted to Bangkok from this arse end of nowhere.

Luckily the only thing that happened is my eye swelled up and made me look like I got a knuckle sandwich El thought that I looked tuff!!) and I passed out in the afternoon as the pills make you mega drowsy.



The next day all was well apart from the massive eye and the fact that the pills turn me into a massive moody PMT bitch (Big sorry to Eleanor and thanks for putting up with me), so we treated ourselves to a slow boat back up the river to Paske and booked into the swankiest hostel in Paske,(read: air con and TV and towel and a bell boy!!!), it was heaven.

We have loved Laos: the people, the food and the views are all amazing. I can't wait to cook Laap when we get back.

Next stop we fly to Cambodia into Siem Reap to see the massive Angkor Wat, can't wait.