The next day we hired motorbikes and headed out onto the Bolivan Plateau to check out the scenery. Lots of Tea farms about and saw some spectacular waterfalls. the guys had never ridden on the right on motos and had never used one with gears but caught on quick and there was piss all traffic. Got rained on a few times which was a piss off, but other than that and the fact we had craptacular Chinese motos had a blast.
Went out for Indian that night with a group of us and then Chris and I took the bikes for a spin round town, Percy's bike ran out of gas way down by the Mekong and I went for gas but lost were he was, was a laugh, he made it home ok. Dave's bike had already run out but only 2 blocks from home.
The next day we hired better Japanese bikes from a different hotel and went down South to Wat Phu Champasack which is an old Khmer ruin on a smaller scale than the famous ones in Cambodia, was still nice and got to take the bikes across the Mekong on raft like ferry's. Visited the ruins and then had lunch, on the way back noticed Dave had a flat rear tyre so stopped at a roadside mechanic, while waiting Percy and I went for a spin up a dirt road, on the way back, Percy took a spill and suffered some scrapes, going a bit fast through potholes and locked the brakes, not to bad though and his cuts have mostly healed up now. On the way back Dave and I gave a couple of hitchhikers a ride with backpacks and all. Dave got a flat front tyre and then another flat back tyre back in pakse which made 3 flat tyres in a day, bad luck to the Aussies, still had a great day but. Had dinner on a floating Restaurant on the Mekong, had Fish Laap which was excellent.
Managed to get a load of Kip (Lao currency) from the bank during the day so now was a multi millionaire. In two currencies as I still have over a million Dong.
Next day decided to head down to Four Thousand Islands.
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