Today we was another change of location as we took a short flight from Siem Reap in Cambodia to Pakse, near Champasak, Laos. The day was quite routine until we realized that our accommodation for the next few days was on an island called Don Deng in the middle of the Mekong River at a hotel called La Folie Lodge. To add to the novelty we crossed to the island on a boat made from two large canoes connected by a seating platform, and we were driven from the shore to the hotel in a trailer attached to a "chinese tractor". The hotel turned out to have a very "colonial" feel, but also was quite a magic and relaxing place. Boating on the Mekong was a wonderful feeling.

The first 4 photos are from Nina's early morning walk in Siem Reap, she was determined to get some "shots" of a large Budhist Temple in the middle of town.