4000 islands - Dhone Khone island

Today we left Vientiane at 4:45AM to get a flight to Pakse. Once we landed in Pakse our guide picked us up to take us to a dock where we boarded our thin boat to the 4000 islands.

The island we're staying on is Don Khone island. We arrived at the reception of our hotel called the Sala Dhone Khone. 

Next to our reception was a cage with a gibbon in it. I felt sorry for it because it was in a cage about 3 metres long and 2 metres high.

Aoife made friends with it and called it  'Bob'. 

We gave Bob some watermelon from breakfast. If the watermelon didn't have
enough flesh on it, he'd throw it back at you! 

Today we rode bikes round the dirt tracks and up to the Errawaddy dolphin viewing point. Errawaddy dolphins are only found in the Mekong river. By the time we got up there we'd missed the dolphins. My bike chain kept on breaking. It was so annoying!

Mum and Riona gave two school girls a lift on the back of their bikes. While they were waiting for Dad to fix my Chain, the girls were picking up frogs and pulling their legs to make them jump! 

Today we got up early to see the Errawaddy dolphins. We cycled to the viewing point and took a boat out to see the dolphins. We were about 50 feet away which was too far away to see them, but when the dolphins came really close, he would either put the engine on or start turning the rudder at the back of the boat.

I don't think that it was worth it to get up early and see the dolphins.

After we left the boat, we cycled back to our hotel and Aoife and Dad went off to find out about a swimming pool. 

Riona, mum and I waited for an hour wondering where they were. They had cycled right past the turning and travelled for ages in the burning heat! 

It's our last day and we found out our hotel had a pool! They hadn't even mentioned it and it wasn't obviously attached to our resort. 

We'd sat sweating the day before doing our work too! So we all went for a well deserved swim.

While we were in the swimming pool, an Aussie couple came and started speaking to Dad.

They were called Jason and Jess. We went to the bar with Jason and Jess and said we'd go to dinner with them. When we went to the restaurant mum went home immediatley because she didn't feel well. Jess and Jason gave us a load of tips to do in Cambodia.

We had a great night, and at the end of the evening we did gangnam style with Jason ( just so you know, he was probably drunk!! ).