Last week school had a break for the boat racing festival. I was able to join Mark and Jo and some of their friends to visit the southern area of Laos.
We hired a rather unreliable Hyundai Van in Pakse and squeezed in to travel to the Bolavan Plateau and then further south along the Mekong River. The Bolavan Plateau is an elevated plateau of coffee plantations, jungle and waterfalls.
Our second night was spent at Etu resort next to Tad E-Tu (Tad is the Laos word for waterfall). The waterfall was powerful and magnificent. It was great to be staying there as I was able to visit at daytime, dusk and early morning (not dawn!)
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Our group of nine; from left Dave and Terry, (Mark's mates from Canberra), Jo and Mark, Matthew (Jo's cousin who is doing teaching rounds at school) and Heidi (Matthew's partner) the back, and Margaret and David, (US and friends of Jo and Mark's from Jakarta who are now teaching at VIS) front right;enjoying a Beer Laos overlooking the lights and hills of Pakse on our first night away.
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