The "little" break

From Vientiane I took a bus to Thakhek, where starts the Thakhek loop. More or less famous loop for a travelers on the scooter. The first day I got an advice to visit a green climbing camp which is on the way. So I decided rent a motorbike and go there. Really chilled place, which is owned by one young swiss guy name Thomas. There were a lot of climbers and good secure climbing routes. Perfect for climbing, if you are in a condition. Which I wasn't and my body started to protesting agains next climbing :) So after a two days of climbing I decided to carry on in the loop.

There were a lot of caves around, small one and big one. The longest one hat 7.5km and there is a river floating through. Teoretically I read, that you can take the scooter with you on a small wooden boat and take it through the cave to save some time and mainly don't go back through the overcrowded main road but through a nice valley full of small local villages. So I decided to bribe the boat driver, which wasn't so difficult and went through the cave with the scooter. Honestly, I have to confess, that sometimes I was a bit afraid, that the scooter will end up in the river together with me. But it didn't happen. The another side of the cave was really beautiful, exactly as I read and with the shortcut, I manage to get back quicker and luckily took the night sleeping bus to 4000 islands on the south, which will be my last stop in Laos.
Btw the night bus was really perfect. Almost like the rescue bus from Harry Potter!

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