I spent my second day in Pakse hanging out with the group that I was with in Vientiane. There are two guys from Belgium, one girl from China, one guy from Spain, and another guy from Belgium. The latter being the guy that I had sat next to on the last two bus trips that I’ve been on. I never really planned on traveling with the group but they are very good people and I’m having a great time, so at least for the next few days I’ll be around them. In two days they will be leaving for Cambodia and then going in different directions. I will be going to Cambodia as well, but I don’t think we’re going the same direction so we’ll most likely part then.

We spent the day on a small tour around the city. We left at about 10 and got back around 3. We hired a tuk-tuk to take us to see some waterfalls and a coffee plantation. The waterfalls were pretty impressive, but I don’t think we actually went to the coffee plantation. I’m trying to figure out if the driver thinks he took us there or he just decided that he didn’t want to and he ignored our request to go. :) It seems pretty common for many of the Lao people to answer a question with, “Yes.” The thing is, I don’t think they even know what they are saying yes to. :)

Pakse is a small but very nice town and it felt good to get out of it for the afternoon. I’m not going to do step-by-step of what we did just because I’m not in the mood. Basically we went to two waterfalls.

We leave for 4000 Islands tomorrow morning.