27112010 : It gets dark at 5pm?!

Chiang Khong is just a stretch of quiet town 4-5km long which sits on the northeast of Thailand. Peppered along the roadside are a few guesthouses, provision shops, hole in a wall eateries and the banks. Across the Mekong lies the Lao border and the town of Huay Xai and boats ferry passengers across for the price of 40Baht.

customs check - arrival on the left, departure on the right

the mekong and opposite is Laos

An! An! An!

People here are really nice and sincere and you have people bugging you for a tuk tuk every 2 seconds. The sun starts to set at around 4pm and by the time it's 8pm, the street is deserted. The Thai spoken here sounds a little different from the ones I hear in Bkk too. Perhaps some local dialect.

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now thats a cool tuk tuk

mekong fish

thai ondeh ondeh