Our arrival into Laos was an easy border crossing, after paying the mandatory $2 bribe to the officials we were in a minibus shuttling us quickly to a pier to head to the 4000 Islands. Due to it being the wet season and the Mekong at full flow it was probably less than 2000 Islands at that time.
We took a rickety little boat across the vast, fast flowing Mekong to a little island called Don Det, it was amazing we even made it through the current as I'm pretty sure it was just a whipper snipper on the back with a prop on the end.
We stayed in some riverside shacks with Julia and Stefan some Germans we'd made friends with on the trip. It was most relaxing, plenty of time spent in hammocks overlooking the river just reading or napping.
We spent a lot of time riding around the island an it's neighbour, riding through beautiful landscapes of rice paddies, massive waterfalls and jungle. Truly spectacular.
We then headed up to check out the Kong Lor Cave. A 7km cave made by a river flowing through a mountain. Kate, Julia, Stefan and I decided to be adventurous and hire postie bikes for the 400km round trip.
The scenery along the way was simply amazing. Massive mountains that have been carved by millions of years of wind and water erosion were truly breathtaking, close to the most beautiful landscapes I've ever seen.
The cave itself was phenomenal, it truly was a big arsed river flowing right through a mountain. It was very spooky with huge stalegmites and tites in every direction. Truly a wonder to behold. (3 truly's in 4 paragraphs, I must've like the joint)
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