Of course i was selecting smallest island that i found on my quidebook to avoid lots groups of tourists who lived on main islands. Of course there was them also and dream about little fishing village wasn't complete but still very nice place: bungalow with hammock just besides Mekong river, so perfect place for chilling :)
Just Reggae music on, to hammock chilling and from there taking pictures sunset and river with fishermen throwing nets on Mekong :)
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| Fishermen on Mekong |
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| From Fishing village |
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| This fellow i found there also :) |
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| Kids with local sledding :) |
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| then they saw me and "HELLOOOOO" <3 |
I was renting bicycle and was exploring island and there was really oriental houses around island when you just went further from tourist area so it was really cool :)
There was also couple nice waterfalls and small fisherman village another side of island that i had to check.
On next day was exploring with bicycle again next island which was little bigger but quite similar than mine island except there wasn't fishing village, just tourist bungalows, beautiful place still.
So next days went with bicycle exploring places an from time to time had to use also hammock of course and one day i was trying tubing, means floating on Mekong river with big tractors inner tube couple kilometres, can there be more relaxing? (Maybe in hammock, yes) water was streaming slowly and beautiful landscape, nice experience :)
When i get to shore back to my place i meet my boat driver who was taking me to start point on upper stream. He stands on shore wearing sunglasses and i also have sunglasses. Similar cheap plastic classes im wear that my driver but some reason he likes mine very much. So suddenly i ask him does he want to change classes? He was totally exiting so we changed classes and to me he was looking James Brown after that so. Say that to him and he laughs. I start to call him James Brown and he keep classes even shadows above house, i ques he really liked them. I got so good mood that you can get someone so happy with cheap sunglasses :)
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| Mr James Brown with my classes :) |
When i had been about week on island i decided to go trying home stay in that fisher village another side of my island because during my bicycles i saw sign for home stay in that village and that was nice experience. I think i was just a few of tourists that spend there more time than just quick visit.
Houses were typical way built over pillars so first thing after leaving my bag on house was going down and putting my hammock on pillars and taking a nap
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| Kids wondering my hammock :) |
First thing i realized after waking was little kids surrounding me and wondering my hammock. So i was taking pictures of them and showing pictures on kids and they were really exiting :)
On evening i was eating dinner with my family there. Food was good but local people doesn't choose parts of chicken like we do here, they just cut chicken to pieces and cook it like that. So that was still new to me that you can have bones and cartilage and stuff like that on food.
Experience having dinner was nice although language barrier was quite bad because basically they didn't speak English at all, i was showing them pictures about my family and that was quite it our conversations, rest of evening they watched tv and i was little bored because couldn't even understand tv.
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| Kids from home stay |
On morning i thought that on prize was including some kind of breakfast also and when i tried to beckon man of the house that he was first confused, then his face brighten, he goes to another room and come back with beard razor :D So i don't have so good skills with speaking hands :D
I could have been longer time there but after week on island i have started thinking of continuing to Cambodia and fate (or more like currency situation) comes back on game again. I noticed that i'm running out my local money and didn't want to change anymore to more Laos money so i decided moving towards to Cambodia next morning. So i tried to thank my family, go back to tourist side and book bus ticket on next morning to Cambodia.
When i go on evening to my bungalow i noticed that next bungalow of me have moved 2 nice guys and was chatting with them long time on evening and suddenly find out that other guy is same aged man from my hometown in Finland. These guys had meet during trip and both were moving on next morning also but different directions. But this Jussi (Finnish guy) was also heading to Cambodia on morning so next day we traveled with same bus.
Jussi was more hurry on travelling so i think he went straight to Phnom Phen but i wasn't so hurry so i stopped straight after border to Stung Treng. There i was couple of days, seeing just couple tourists so hanging with locals which was nice :)
From there to Kampong Cham, couple days there and then Kampong Thom and then towards Siem Reap and temples of Angkor :)
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