Chris arrived in Pakse after 4hrs of the trunk road Route 13 to the Champasak Palace Hotel. A free upgrade and Chris was staying in the Royal Suite on the top floor of the hotel. The room and bathroom were about a third the size of our house back home. Pure bliss!
Meanwhile, David had arrived at the map location for the Tad Lo Lodge on the Boolaven plateau to find.... Nothing. It appears the google map link as well as the agoda map link were completely wrong. Unable to located any guesthouses David attempted to negotiate a Laos Homestay for the night as by this time is was dark. With the help of Vongsamay speaking to the locals in Laos over the phone, they seemed to arrange a stay for the evening. After Vongsamay has ended the call, one of the locals got on the phone to another english speaking Laos person in a nearby town who after asking for 200USD to stay in a Laos person's home for the night, which was obviously refused, threatened to call the police to have David arrested if he did not leave immediately.
On that note, David left the village and began a slow and very rough ride to Pakse to meet up with Chris at the Palace (Literally).
David arrived in Pakse at the hotel at approx 2200, just enough time for Chris to run out and get some takeaway as was very hungry and quite tired after 11 hours of pretty much solid riding. A spa bath and some spaghetti followed by an ice cream sundae and David was out to the world.
Chris stayed awake to edit and post the video of the crash a few days prior which was the first time we had seen the footage from the incident. Very lucky we were all geared up and didn't get injured or hurt the poor bikes too much.
Tomorrow we have a huge 2km ride across town to check into the Champassak Grand Hotel right by the Mekong river, our originally booked stop for 2 nights in Pakse.
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