Today was a travel day, we left La Folie Lodge for a flight to the Northern Laotian town of Luang Prabang. Thus we spent most of the day waiting either in airports or sitting on planes. However the ever unrepressible Nina was up early getting her last walk around the island. The center part of Don Daeng Island is devoted to agriculture and livestock, as can be seen in the first 6 photos below. Photo 2 is rice fields waiting for the wet season to come to life, photo 3 is a water storage pond that is part of the wet season irrigation system. The final Don Daeng photo is a freshly planted tapioca field. If you look very carefully (maybe with imagination) you can just see short sticks poking up out of the ploughed soil; they are tapioca seedlings that have recently been planted.

We arrived in Luang Prabank late in the afternoon, met our "minder team" and were dropped at out hotel in the World Heritage Area of the city. It is situated on a small peninsula between the Mekong River and the Khan River.