I am in Laos, and because of the distinct and unsurprising lack of any Wifi I have not been posting here, but I have been taking notes in a sort of impromptu diary so fear not, I will update properly probably when I get back to Thailand, which will not be for a few weeks yet as I will be in Cambodia within the week. But in my present painfully picturesque locale, lack of internet is not a worry that keeps me up at night.
I am in Si Pan Don, literally 4000 islands about 30km north of the border to Cambodia, a backpackers mecca full of very relaxed locals and the more adventurous of the soft-core backpacking crowd.
It is amazingly quiet here, there is no power beyond generators and they go off at 10, no street lights and no cars. My first day was a sleep in, breakfast of banana pancakes followed by a walk where the highlight was a pig that rolled over once sufficiently petted, (a theory thoroughly tried and tested) and a game of asshole (a card game for the, sadly, uninitiated) with some random swiss at a little cafe/guesthouse a few km south of our residence.
I will remain in this sleepy burg for a few days invesigating the surrounding waterfalls, dolphins (apparently) and pigs until jumping south to see what beaches cambodia has to offer. But until I find better internet, expect nothing more than ramblings such as this from this sketchy "blog".
