0830 - We had out breakfast in the food center area of the Dao Heaung Market. This market selling anything from daily life used, food and groceries. But we couldn't see any souvenir here.
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| Many kind of Tranditional cake and spring roll, range from 10,000-20,000kip |
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| Coffee and Tauhua, 5,000kip each |
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| Food center area |
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| Noodle and vege same like vietnamese pho 15,000kip |
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| Selling many baguette here |
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| Songthaw like a mini local bus |
0930 - We departed to the Wat Phou which 45km south of the Pakse town. First we ride through the Mekong river with the long bridge. After the first toll (Motorbike is free), we turned left and there is another toll. After the toll, the scenery is paddy fields and mountains.
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| Toll, free for motorbike |
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| Along the journey, mountains are everywhere |
1030 - We reached the Wat Phou entrance. Parking fee is 5,000kip. The entrance fee is 50,000kip/person include the free shuttle tram. The ancient site was built before the Angkor Wat hence it is very ancient. Most of the structure is like almost fall down but there are some renovation work. Climbing 20 staircase to the top is the Wat Phou. The view from the top is very beautiful. We spend an hour at this site to visit the sacred water and elephant rock sculpture. After back near to the entrance, we visited the exhibition hall. This hall has a lot of information about the ancient site which include all the kingdom in the mainland southeast asia like Khmer, Champa and Viet.
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| Free shuttle tram |
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| The beautiful corridor |
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| Normal staircase |
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| Steep staircase |
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| View from the top |
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| Wat Phu |
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| Inside |
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| The carving look very beautiful |
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| Local collecting the sacred water |
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| Buddha foot |
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| Elephant rock carving |
1300 - Rode back to the Pakse. Once we at the bridge across the Mekong River, the rear tyre suddenly blown out and we were lucky that we didn't fall down riding at the speed of 50km/h. We were also lucky that the tyre blown out near the town. We rode till the end of the bridge, check the outer tire was totally worn out! We knew that this is not our problem. Hence, I rode back to the motorbike rental shop, Lao Adventure Travel while leaving her at the nearest supermarket. At the shop, the lady didn't said anything and just call to a man. This man keep saying that flat tire was my fault. This man also don't want to come the shop to see the tire condition as he was saying that he was at far away. The lady in the shop also didn't told anything except saying "I don't speak English". I called the lady to call the man again. This time argue very loudly. The man keep saying "Why no air still keep riding" and "If you don't repair yourself, we don't return you the passport.". At last, I just accept it and asked how much is the repair. They said is 30,000kip. They give two options which is repair myself or they help me to repair. I chose to repair myself as I don't trust them again.
Leaving the shop with throttling the motorbike by the side, I found the nearest motorbike repairment just beside the shop. Actually, it don't have proper shop just few tools only. First the man said that the price is 30,000kip. But after he saw my outer tire is also worn out, the price is 100,000kip include the inner tire. However, I saw the another old outer tire at the side. Hence, I just wanted to change that secondhand tire. At last, he gave me 40,000kip to change all.
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| Tire blown off due to the outer tire worn out! |
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| Lao Adventure Travel! |
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| the inner ring rubber was made with the old tube! |
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| The cylinder pump look very old! |
After repaired the motorbike, we didn't have mood to go anywhere else as we scared the secondhand tire will blown out again. Hence, we just stayed and had our lunch at Dao Lin Restaurant.
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| Rice with yellow curry, 25,000kip |
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| Sticky rice with fried fish and papaya salad, 25,000kip |
1800 - Returned the motorbike. The lady checked the motorbike by riding a circle in front of the shop. After that, she only returned the passport. After that, taking the backpacks from the hostel and waited at the bus station for the VIP sleeping bus.
The bus company that we bought is King of Bus as this company is the most recommended as we saw from the review from tripadvisor. However, once we wanted to board the bus, we had to put our backpacks ourselves underneath the bus. The storage area is full of luggage and other boxes. This bus is like a courier service. Hence, we hardly to put our backpack in. There are several bus departed to Vientiane. This company has 3 of the buses! The bus that we get on don't have the rack in front of us. Hence, we had to put our backpack on the bed which make the space narrower for our feet. By the way, the bed is quite comfortable. Although our bed was near to the toilet, the toilet didn't smelly at all once the people open. But I can see the toilet is very small.
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| VIP sleeping bus |
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| Quite narrow for two person |
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| Include drink and snack |
Our Expenses (000kip)
Breakfast : 37
Motorbike : 50
Fuel : 10
Wat Phu : 100
Tire repair : 40
Lunch : 60
Sleeping Bus : 340
TOTAL : 637
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