River Boat
Slicing the territory of
my trip in half was the Nam Kham River. According to the map, to
Google Earth and all the information I was able to gather, there was
no road on the other side of the river.
My plan was, therefore, to
take a boat downstream to Donkham and cut inland, up and westward
toward Luang Prabang.
There was, of course, a
road on the other side of the river and I hesitated before deciding
not to take it, and take the boat instead. It was expensive, but
worth it.
I felt that I needed some
river time, some long moments of sitting and watching life go by, of
watching villages and garden plots and people bathing. It didn't last
long enough.
The village port of
Donkham was a largish kind of place compared to the rest of the dots
on the map. Pleasant, but I didn't want to stay there.
And so on I pushed into
Khmu country.
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