Si Phan Don is a group of islands in the Mekong River in Southern Laos. It took us almost a day and a half of travel by bus and ferry to reach there from Southern Thailand. There are three main islands visited by travellers – Don (island) Khong, Don Det and Don Khon. Don Khong is targeted towards the older, more sedate traveller whilst the other two islands Don Det and Don Khon are cheaper and targeted towards the younger party loving crowd. Needless to say we stayed at Don Khong!
On our first full day we cycled across the island. It was a long, hot and dusty 8 km ride to the other side of the island. We rode past lots of rice paddies, cows, buffalo, and little houses on stilts.
The next day we went on a longtail boat which took us past some of the some of the islands dropping us off at Don Khon where we walked to see the Somphamit waterfall.
Somphamit Waterfall
Old French Primary School on Don Khon
On the river we motored past friendly kids playing in the water along the riverbank, little islets, fish traps, fisherman and little settlements all along the banks of the river.
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