Heduš between elephants

Well, here we are again! Finally, the weather is a little more bearable and not so stuffy. In Thailand it is cooler at night (around 20-25 degrees) and can sleep without air conditioning. We plan to be in Thailand Isolate power and go into Laos, where
we are looking forward. Until you look at Thailand
way back.
Upalujeme highway north to the River Kwai, where we visit the famous bridge built by POWs during the Second World War. These things interest us enough so we will now visit places linked with 2 World War II or the Vietnam War. We know that many travelers go to various religious monuments, but we just do not take too, admit it. In India we have the
seen enough! Similarly, in the familiar, and therefore there is much mention of the visit of Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim modlitebnách. We can see through the beautiful old mosque in Iran, but just one of us, it just nevyhledáváme.Zajímá our nature and life of local people. I Husak child and is not related to religion ).

In three days we get to the town of Kanchana Buri, where the above mentioned bridge. Searching museum and hire a boat that sails with us on the River. River Kwai is beautiful. There is a floating village on the banks of the small straw huts of fishermen. Doplouváme to the bridge, where large numbers of tourists from all over the world. We will do some photos and walk around you. It’s getting dark and we have to find a place to sleep. Thus we return to the car and go from town towards Ayutthaya.

Spend nights in open forest in the city. In the morning shower, and we have to frčíme Ayutthay, which is one of many Buddhist monuments. As we assume there is nothing interesting, just a pile of stones, which is really quite old, and all scattered throughout the city. In the terrible heat we have viewed everything, looking at the big golden Buddha and put ice cream on a stick. After the tour we sat in the car and he galloped direction of Laos.

From the highway we turned off after a few kilometers to the National Park Si Bun Ruang, where we wanted to spend a few days. We accidentally drove into the reservation camp guards who were so kind and let us camp there. They were very courteous and friendly. They have a sample with different aquarium freshwater fish that are found in a local lake. We washed, picked some stocks in a couple of coconuts (coconut milk is too good to drink), toured the neighborhood in search of snakes, which grow there.

In two days we go on and we get to Laos in the evening. We did not on the highway, but after okreskách and wander a bit. We find it a few times that we have a map, which is a lot of mistakes. Finally we get to the Mekong, is powerful and has a wide sandy shores. The monsoon is definitely doubled. Cross the Friendship Bridge and we are in Laos. The boundaries are once again without any major problems. Customs officers are so surprised that we go by car from the Czech Republic that we are a desert with no luggage inspection.

We hope that it will go on, because it is offloading all the crazy stuff. It’s quite dark and we we set the direction of the borders of Vientiane (the capital of Laos), it is about 25km from the border. Spend nights in open at the gas station under construction. In the morning we find that the already constructed toilets, running water. Just use it and supplement the water into the tank too soon to take shower. Begins to play sunshine and we’re going after known in Laos as no.13 road (the main artery that connects the northern and southern Laos, and is notorious for attacking and postřílením bus passengers, including two Swiss cyclists who rode around in a accident 2003).

Slowly declining villages, and we climb the mountains, where all around us is beautiful jungle. We meet just a few cars and sometimes a local truck or minibus. Today, we can write that Laos is a beautiful country with amazing people and unspoiled nature. All day we took before we arrived at the place known among backpackers Vang Vieng, which is full of caves, which you can visit and see. There is an old military airport and a long main street, along which is pretty guesthausů and restaurants. Unfortunately, more and more tourists are coming here, the more they jump local darts wallet. This means that there are television bars where you can lie on the pillows and čučet the telly, which is very loud or go to a restaurant where there is too much TV and go out and swim to the river, where there are bars with disco music, which is again really loud. Bar or restaurant, imagine a straw hut or wooden house (sometimes occurs even brick house), so no sound insulation. Just local people have been trained by Western tourists, they like loud music. But when the restaurant next to each other, so it’s really rumble. Local Westerners know what they like and so they try to comply in all. So maybe they rent the soul of the tractor and heading off on them a piece of local rivers. Very cool idea. Oh and also there can be happy in a restaurant to order pizza or drinking a happy (in the food and drink with this name is incorporated marijuana). So if you do not know, you’re really in a big cool long enough. Well, it’s full of surprises!

We spend the night goes on. Our desire to search for remnants of war has led us to previously closed areas around the city of Long Cheng. The old town is a great airport from which American planes started bombing of Ho Chi Minh Trail. So we have to see. This area has been closed since the war and confidentiality, and in 2005 opened to the public. But we did not know that the local Hmong tribe, despite the ceasefire sometimes angry (hmongové fought alongside America in the war with Vietnam and then with the Lao Communist government, a truce was concluded in r.2004). Long Cheng, their headquarters. It is deep in the jungle about 100km from civilization. But it does not deter us, but we have problems again with the map. This area is not there and we ride the small map of a printed guide. After about 30 km we turn off the gravel path to an even worse way to the jungle where we convince the local people, no matter where you do not drive, it is very dangerous. After talking with a local truck driver, who tells us that the way to Long Cheng is dangerous and still work there Hmong armed troops, who would have us be able to roll the stick up and kodrcáme back to the village of Vang Vieng. They sleep in the morning we set out north towards Luang Phrabang. The road is amazing, all around us again, just jungle and mountains. On the road we are almost alone. At lunch represents a larger village, where we have the perfect soup. It’s a big bowl full of vegetables and meat (hopefully chicken). We go on in the evening and arrive in Luang Phrabangu. So next time, and others.

All greetings.

Milan and Eve.