Don Det

By the time we made it to our first stop in Laos we were really, really tired. We were badly in need of some rest and relaxation. Lucky for us Don Det is the perfect place for that sort of thing, in fact, you'll have a hard time doing anything else there. It is one of the 4,000 islands in the Mekong river near Cambodia. We walked around the island, spent some time swimming in the river, and relaxed in our hammocks and read books. We must have spent almost a week on the island.

Other than that the only notable thing we did was to take a day trip to neighboring island Don Khon to try to catch a glimpse of the river dolphin. We didn't see any dolphins from the beach or the hammocks where we spent the afternoon, but neither did the people that spent the cash to hire boats to take them where the dolphins can sometimes be found. We were happy enough that we got to spend the day on our own private beach and lounging in hammocks by the beauty of the river that it didn't matter whether there were dolphins or not. This was definitely one of the most relaxing stops on the trip so far.