In Pakse we joined a group to go trekking in the jungle with one English speaking Laos and two local village Laos guides. We trekked, we zip lined high high above deep crevasses above huge water falls and the jungle canopy. We ate in true Laos style, with a few banana leaves on a rock as our table. We experienced extreme tropical rain for a few hours and a welcome group fire on arrival to our jungle hut that evening. Next day we awoke in our open air tree-hut way up high with no ladder in our out... Zip lined to breakfast in the coolest location beside 2 waterfalls. Trekked more, cooled down in freezing waterfalls and climbed up some seriously vertical rock faces which were pretty challenging, with the help of u-bolts for footing and safety cables.
Really enjoyed fireside dinner with the group and had some cool conversations with the local guides. Peth, one of our guides told us that "once in a movie, he saw a concrete house with a fire inside and a hole (chimney) to let the smoke out." We told him this is like our houses and he got very excited to hear how it works!
Arrived back to Pakse wrecked and with muscle ache... great to finally be exhausted from exercise, something that's really hard to manage in hot humid countries.
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