Beautiful little border town. Great for a bit of R & R after a long bus ride. We stayed in a great hostel that had huts and which felt a bit like a resort, a little surreal! Had great apple pie and ice-cream though! The only negative to the beautiful 4-poster bed hut was the bathroom. Although in design it was great, higgledy paved floor with stones for the shower and tiled toilet, the walls were thatched. This means a mossy haven apparently. As soon as you turn the shower on a few hundred mosquitoes fly out of the wall, they especially like to hide on your towel! NOT nice! Even still, we weren't bitten- weird. We hired bikes from the hostel and cycled down the pier as the town is, of course as everywhere is, on the Mekong River. We ended up in the 'Sculpture Park' which is basically a small park filled with sculptures of all the beasts from a merge of Hindi and Buddhist stories. Very bizarre! One is the mouth of a snake that you have to climb through the (we think) were the sinners (or whatever they should be called) skeletons etc. On the way back we were chased by a crazy dog- Shav was pretty scared as she isn't a dog fan, I had to shout the dog away so he left.
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