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Lunch time: pasta with fresh tomato and tuna.
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Towards Savannakhet, where we plan to meet our italian friends travelling by tandem
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Red soil.
Dirt track to reach Bernard and Dala house in a small village near Savannakhet. We met Bernard along the road and he invited us to stay in house for a few days.
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One evening Bernard brought us to see a dance show. Dala and other girls are rehearsing for a show they have to perform on the Republic Day.
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One evening Bernard brought us to see a dance show. Dala and other girls are rehearsing for a show they have to perform on the Republic Day.
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One evening Bernard brought us to see a dance show. Dala and other girls are rehearsing for a show they have to perform on the Republic Day.
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One evening Bernard brought us to see a dance show. Dala and other girls are rehearsing for a show they have to perform on the Republic Day.
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And while some women dance, Dala's sister is sewing with a loom.
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And while some women dance, Dala's sister is sewing with a loom.
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Bernard and Dala founded a private association that collects money to built up schools in small villages. They also give small credit to people, like Dala's sister, that used it to buy this loom. So that she can sew and sell her products to pay back the loan and help the community of the village.
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The whole village gather here every night to assist at the dance rehearsal.
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Bernard
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The whole village gather here every night to assist at the dance rehearsal.
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This is one of the few (the only one we saw) source of water. The taste is very good!
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One day we went to one of the school the association is taking care of.
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Bernard's cat in laotian mood
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Bernard, Dala, Davide, Daniele and the workers from Energy France, a French company, that come here twice a year to help out the association with the school projects.
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Finally we meet Godimundi, Alessandro e Stefania. They left Italy in 2014 and are travelling the world by tandem.
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Godimundi
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In Pakxong we say Davide goodbye, his visa is expiring and he has to reach the border with Cambodia few days before us. We will meet again later on.
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Banghiang River, one of Mekong tributaries
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Simona and Godimundi
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Hobo and sacred tree
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Young monk
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Handmade horn!
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Hawkers are very common in Laos. Whenever you are hungry you just stop at the side of the road, wait a few minutes and for sure someone will show up!
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Flat tyres.
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Stefania
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Looking for the needle that caused the flat tyre.
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A perfect shelter.
The night before we started settling up our camp in a temple. After few minutes a bunch of police officers showed up and forced us to leave the temple, but they found us this nice place to spend the night!
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Skinny cat
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Hobos and the tandem
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Starry night along Road 13 inbetween Lak25 and Lak30
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Godimundi
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Bananas assaulted by chicken!
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Back on the Mekong
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Back on the Mekong
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Back on the Mekong
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Flowers and temple
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Stefania
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Here the Mekong is huge, since the monsoon season is over the water level is very low and thousands of small islands dot the landscape.
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Awaiting the boat to reach Don Det, the most famous island among the 4000 islands of the Mekong. We are now few kilometres away from Cambodia.
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Ready to load the bicycles from a floating pier
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Not an easy task since the boat is very small!
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But we did it and without taking off the panniers!
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Sunset over 4000 islands
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Alessandro is super happy that all the bicycles are safely on board!
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Going back home with some grocery
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Our captain
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Sunset over 4000 islands
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Selfie
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Sunset over 4000 islands
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Fishing
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Traffic on the Mekong
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This is how we take our self-portraits
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Enjoying the laziness of the island
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Mekong and the 4000 islands
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Walking around Don Det.
The island is very quite, guesthouses and private houses go along together well.
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Decoration
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Kids swimming in the Mekong
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Capturing the moment
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This is the bathroom of local people. A guy was waiting for me to go away to have a shower in the river.
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Fishing
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The net is attached to a plastic bottle
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Smile
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Wooden bridge to a small village
