Day 29 afternoon - me and Ben hired 2 bicycles (no motor bikes for tourist is allowed in Si Pha Don) planning to cycle to Don Khon, the island where we weren't allowed to enter without paying yesterday. The rocky road was very bumpy all the though. We drove passed the bridge, through more rice fields, some ponds with several buffalos, ladies selling grilled bananas on the way, we saw the Mekong waterfall. It wasn't as big as the Khon Phapheng in Don Khong, but it was good enough to brighten my day. The sky was bright blue without a single cloud. I could feel how powerful the river was. It passes through the whole Lao and now reached Si Pha Don, almost the end of Lao n enters Cambodia.
We bumped into few friends we met last nite, Tim and Richard and some of their new met friends. We had an extremely long lunch as preparing meals is always slow and easy in Lao. By the time we finished lunch it was almost 4pm. We went to a "beach" or a "bay" of the Mekong for a swim. The beach size is like a bedroom size.
The most amazing thing about this "beach" is it has quick sand in the river bottom. If you stand still in the river, you would get slowly sucked into the riverbank. We were jumping on it like walking on a floating bed. I never experienced quick sand before, I felt like Indiana Jones... We didn't stay there for too long as there were buffalos trying to have a dip too. They were too anxious to see so many humans in the river, they backed off, but left some left overs in the river. It was time for us to leave.
Cycling back to our island was sunset time. Couldn't resist to slow down to take last few more pictures of this amazing purplish orange sunset.
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