We're woken up by music and people talking on loudspeakers. In this area they wake up at six in the morning with energy. But the worst thing is not that it wakes you up but that it lasts an hour!
We have breakfast in a Laotian tent, we ask for bread and butter that turns out to be green, but the lady says that you can eat that, as they are. We tell her not to put us some fried eggs. In Laos it's funny, many times they don't have what they offer you and they go to the next stall to buy it or they take the motorbike and bring it from anywhere. It is typical that at breakfast they go for the bread.
Restaurant
We rented some bikes at the hotel. Today we visited the Wat Phu Champasak, the best preserved Khmer archaeological remains in Laos and the pride of their country.
Buddha
We started pedaling, we have about twelve kilometers of road to reach the archaeological site. It is quite hot. We stop at a huge tree with a huge Buddha and offerings. A little further on we stop for a refreshment. There is practically no traffic and the road is short.
Rice fields
We arrive at the Wat, buy the ticket and leave the bikes outside. It is divided into two parts joined by a stone staircase. The lower part, on the plateau, is two ruined palaces next to a pond and the upper part, located on the mountain, is a temple.
It has many trees, the shadows are welcome. On the last level there are spectacular views. Indispensable.
Vat Phu Champasak
Vat Phu Champasak
Vat Phu Champasak
The area to be visited is surrounded (as in many other areas and in Cambodia) by inaccessible jungle. Due to the war suffered in Indochina during the Vietnam War there is a very high percentage of jungle full of buried mines, it is common to see people without arms or legs, who have suffered accidents when exploiting buried mines while working the land.
Vat Phu Champasak
Vat Phu Champasak
Vat Phu Champasak
Vat Phu Champasak
Vat Phu Champasak
Vat Phu Champasak
Vat Phu Champasak
Near the entrance there are shops and stalls but the prices are excessive and we decided to eat on the way. Finally we arrive at Champasak without eating, we have not found anything that convinces us, we eat in a restaurant overlooking the Mekong.
We go to the cyber to send emails through the internet, then shower and massage.
Bridge
We have a traditional body massage in a massage center, on the way we meet the people from Avila. The great massage, the perfect place, an hour of relaxation. They dress you up in a cotton kimono and move all the muscles in your body by twisting them.
We had dinner at the modern Asian restaurant of yesterday with the people from Ávila. Everything was delicious, the lime juices were great. We say goodbye again.
Bike rental: 10,000 LAK per bike.
Breakfast: 45.000 LAK 2 pax.
Drinks: 20.000 LAK.
Entrance to Wat Phu Champasak: 30.000 LAK per pax.
Lunch: 45.000 LAK 2 pax.
Accommodation: Hotel Si Amphone 100.000 LAK double room with bathroom 2 pax.
Dinner: 44.000 LAK 2 pax.
Massage: 110.000 LAK 2 pax.
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