Tha Khaek

A sleepy town - typical for Southern Lao - is in a coma since a long time. Situated on the Mekong with a view Thailand. The concrete roads are in a bad state, buildings which probably weren't nice when they built them are decaying and melting into the general feeling of this place. Young people are not very visible. At the riverfront some people drink beer and sipping the afternoon away - all of them locals. I made a visa run over the Mekong and tried to get some Thai baht, since the Lao ATM suck. On the boat were some Thai tourists whom were coming back from a one day visit to Khaek. Alcohol is cheap in Laos, that's why they were vomiting over the railing already in the afternoon. The Thai ATM didn't work either. Probably because I tipped in the wrong pin number, which I found out 2 weeks later because my debit card was refused all the time. Mendel my brother and me drank some beers, ate cheap and waited for the time to pass.