I wake up feeling the night before and the bites from camping are irritating my hands and feet so much that I can't help but scratch them. The bus doesn't leave until 11AM today, meaning we have time to go for a swim. In front of the entrance to Kong Lor cave is a small lagoon that you can swim in. Rachelle, me and two others go to the lagoon. The cooling water refreshes me and helps to make me feel better. All of us spent too long swimming and by the time we'd made our way back and loaded our bags on the bus we had made everyone forty minutes late for setting off. We apologise.
It's a short few hours journey today to get to Thakhek. When we arrive, Rachelle and I decided the hotel accommodation the others are staying at is too expensive, but V-Man tells us about another hotel a short walk away. It's called The Mekong Hotel and is run by Vietnamese people. We check in at the agreed price of 80,000 Kip. When we see the rooms we are thrilled with our decision to come here. The room is clean, big and has a television. The television even has a movie channel showing films in English. After all the very basic rooms we've been staying in, Rachelle and I can't stop smiling. Sure, the bath is a little grimy, but we have a television! We get ourselves washed and get ready to the film 'Julie & Julia'.
The hotel sits right on the Mekong river and on the other side we see Thailand again. We walk down the Mekong and find a place to sit where we order some drinks and watch the sun set into Thailand. After that, we meet the others for food.
It's an early start tomorrow so it makes sense to go to the hotel room fairly early. At night our hotel is called the 'Meko Hotel', because the 'n' and 'g' letters don't light up. My bites from camping are sending me crazy, but Rachelle lost the afterbite so I am forced to suffer. We try to substitute the afterbite with antiseptic cream, but it didn't really do the trick. Zombieland comes on the movie channel so that gets watched and then it's time for sleeping.
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