55 kms.
"He is not a happy man", said my next door neighbors, two cute young English girls, of the guest house owner at Don Chai. I think they are right on the money with that analysis. Something is definitely amiss with him. It does not matter what food you order, you will be brought what he/they feels or happens to have around. The simple rooms are 30 000 kip, up by 50% since two years. Everything in his shop is much more expensive than elsewhere in Laos.
It is nice cycling from Viang Poukha. A couple of hills and some roadworks but generally fine and beautiful.
The two girls are going on a 'Gibbon Experience' tomorrow, a three day trekking into the jungle hoping to see some of mainland Asia's only Gibbon monkeys living here. A whole group others are to join on a bus tomorrow morning.
Don Chai is a cute rural Lao village. On advice from the girls I took a quite long walk in the village, along the river. On my previous visit here I had wrongly assumed the few houses by the main road was all there is to Don Chai. But it is actually a sizable village of wooden houses. There are animals everywhere, ducks, chicken, buffalos, cats and dogs.
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