Si Phon Don

Sabai Dii

I am in an area called “Si Phon Don”(4,000 Islands) in south laos and finally I feel like I’ve arrived at the right place…

This place looks exactly as you would fantasize a tropical island!
It looks like all of these fantasies you always had about jungles, rivers and super-slow life are actually based on truth!
look:

My Bungalow

This is the widest point of the great Mekong river, it straches to a width of 14km (!!) – and creates a unique system of thousands of river-islands ranging from big and populated to an mere underwater elevation with a few plants on it.

Several times I have heared people comparing this place to Vang Vieng… when in fact it’s nothing like it. There are tourists, but everybody leads a very peaceful way of life here… There are no late night parties and too loud music and the alcohol culture is not the dominant one

It’s wonderful around here… you can see the white people trying to connect back to nature

People fishing all day… day, night, sunset or sunrise… all photos just look great

Of the 4 thousand – 34 islands are inhabited with small river-bank villages, there’s quite a lot of water traffic. There is cars only on one island (The big one “Don Khong”)… and when I say “cars” I mean about 5 of them.

My camera broke down last week… It just stopped responding.
I looked for a place to try and repair it but there’s no place to do that in all of laos… only in Bangkok.
So I ended up buying a new camera (A590IS), it was quite cheap and it works fine… but only I am starting to realize the difference in quality… So, I am sorry if the quality of the photos will go down.

We are coming up to the visual section of this post… Sunset…

The colors of the sunset here are truly amazing… I have never seen colors in nature in such a crazy contrast. As you can imagine, it’s completely impossible to capture it on camera… The most amazing part is the color of the water… it turnes from mud-brown to dark blue and then to golden-green – with slpashes of red reflecting from the clouds… aahhh!!!

This is an attempted night shot:

The highest light (that looks like a bright star) is planet Venus!

… and here is how sunset looks on Venus

And a few more poetic photos…
This is what is called “The Good Life”:

and this is an insight about the shape of the Lao P.D.R:

Wish you all a good day, a good week, a good month
and a happy new year!

Sabai Dii
me.

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