DAY 2: Visit Irrawaddy Dolphin, the trip looks promising cover about 7.5 km walk, don’t worry! It’s a soft walk without any particular difficulty. The day started early than usual with breakfast at 6.30 am. then follows the same itinerary towards Dune Beach, but turn left 1 km before reaching the beach. Keep going till the connection to the old railway route, you will be among the evergreen trees with so many interesting things, don’t waste your time you can do it on the way back. Continue south direction till the “queue” end of the island at the former French maritime port before 10.00 pm, the best time for lovely Dolphins. Here it is a place where long tail boats waiting to take you to the rare mammal.

This natural house of the Dolphin is on the main arm stream of the Mekong and it is deep enough to make them felt secure to untimely intruder. During the watching, it happens that your boat crossed to the Cambodia water, but Cambodian authorities condone the fact.
On the way back, enjoys relaxing in the particular surroundings where lust evergreen tropical vegetation is prominent, you will arrive back to Sala Done Khone at 17.00 pm. where cool drinks and good dinner are awaiting for you after a long and tiring journey.

DAY 3: Visit the remnants of the French Embankment.

Today, we will guide you to another side of Khone, where you can found The Mekong Embankment remain. This embankment built by French Forestry Company in a Colonial area to collected all teak logs floated on the Mekong river from the north (mainly from Luang Prabang) because all of these logs couldn’t pass Li-Phi falls, and have to be get over by floating through small arms stream of the river till the end of the island in the same basin of the Dolphin house, where they built a port for their vessels trailer to carry its to Cambodia then Vietnam and South China sea. A little further upstream, you can visit our Suspension Bridge over the Mekong Gorge.

This bridge will guide you to KHON PA SOI FALL where you can enjoy swimming beneath a waterfall or kayaking or visit local fishermen has built “Li” to catch fishes during the start of rainy season. It’s a bamboo
construction built across the narrow passage of the river by leaving the stream going through freely between bamboo sticks, fishes arriving at the “Li” were jumped up to the air where fishermen awaiting to catch them. This traditional technique worked so well that the average catching is sometime more than a Ton/season/person. The amazing activities will be started on
June – September every year. You will see how fishermen try to cross a crazy
stream of Mekong river to his “Li” in a middle, and sometime you will see a “Li” break out to small pieces of bamboo without any hope or help. A beautiful life in a small part of the world…

After the visit, the rest of a day is up to you, if you don’t mind, in the afternoon you could walk across the first ever French Bridge spanned over the Mekong river to Done Det villages by following the old railway route to another Old French Port situated in the northern point of the village at the main stream of Mekong. And it used to be an important loading port for goods in destination to the northern part of Laos. Don’t be surprise what you can see at Done Det!! and just immersed yourself in the backpacker life style.