Popular Post crocken Posted January 14, 2012 Popular Post Share Posted January 14, 2012 https://skydrive.liv...ABn32_oAx16QZvQ Got the car passport and headed for the new bridge at Nakhon Phanom.very nice place to cross into Laos,the staff are very friendly and helpful.They filled all the forms in for me and i was thru in 20 minutes.the other bridges (nonh Khai ) i had to do paper work and very confusing .so crossing at NK is easy,$30 for my visa and 60baht for the car and 260 baht for 7 days third party insurance for the car. short drive into Thakhek nice place some old french style buildings,i stayed in the meekong river view hotel 500 baht old but ok.had a few large bottles of beer Lao (40 baht) and dinner in a place by the meekong. next morning headed north along rt 13 to Vieng Khan then turned left onto rt 8 heading east to Khoun Kham then south for 40 klm to a place called Kong lor.....amazing place has a cave 7 klm long runs thru the mountain and you can travel thru it on a long bout for 420 baht and it take up to 4 people for the trip.so 100 baht each if you have 4 people.It was a fun trip 7 klm thru a dark cave and some times we had to get out and the guys pushed it over a few rappids and then back into the boat and at one place they turn on some light and the cave lights up and amazing is all i can say.We stayed in a guest house 230 baht a room very nice and good food. Next morning continued east along rt 8 to the vietnam border got very hilly and very cold when we arrived at the border it was 13 c and light rain (dec 2011).i was not allowed to take my car into vietnam so i headed back to lak Xao and stayed over night there.not much to do or see in Lak Xao. next morning headed south on rt 8s,down to Thapa the headed east along rt 12.that is a fast road to the vietnam border again.then 20 klm before the border i turned right and headed south on a small dirt road that was once the ho chi minh trail and the MAG people are still there locating the many many bombs left from the US bombing from the vietnam war.A few caves to visit and many nice villages.Many poor children.Lucky we had brought some books and pens with us for the kids in the villages we went thru.We headed back to Thakhek and stayed another night in the river side hotel. next morning we off along rt 13 going south to pakxe...a long drive ,wanted to see the waterfalls on the meekong river,Very nice to see them too near Sophamit near the southern border with Cambodia.stayed over night in pakxe,room 400 baht ,next day headed east along rt 16 e and then rt 11 to Sekong,a beautiful drive thru the Laos country side and so many hills and villages to see. We came back into Thailand then drove up to Nong Khai and crossed the friendship bridge into Laos again then headed north up to phonsavan to see the plain of jars,but thats another story. was not able to upload photos....kept getting error message. OK now i try with photos.......via skdrive.link at the top. lovelaos likes this 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomass Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 Great trip, love the photos, will bookmark for future trip with the missus one day. cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunSeek01 Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 Great pictures Crocken! Thanks for putting them out there, easy to DL from SkyDrive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davyboy Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 Yes, great pictures and sounds like a great adventure! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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