The story of a travelling watergun: Pakse,Champasak Day 1
Water fight is part of Lao New Year tradition.So when we travelled 11 hours south of Lao for New Year break to Pakse, my watergun came along for my defense.
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| My properties during Pi Mai,tucked inside a yellow Hermès bag + trustee watergun |
On the first day, it first took a 2 hours dusty tuk-tuk ride to Wat Phou, an ancient temple built by the Khmer. Our tuk-tuk was 'gunned down' by a mean army of child soldiers with massive water weapons along the village to Wat Phou. You can hear those children shouting "kyaaaaaaa" before firing our tuk-tuk with water. Mind you, tuk-tuk is Al Fresco - No Window. 20 meters after that, we saw a family of 3 children waiting by the road side.Mama with a bucket of water, papa with garden hose, and kids with water bazooka. None of the 25 tuk-tuk passengers were save from the shower attack. We were caught off guard.None of our guns were loaded. But the wet 2 hours trip worth the view.Wat Phou is gorgeous. And we managed to shoot some Laotians with our guns.Hah!
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| After shooting about 3-4 other tourists |
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| Wat Phou! |
We enjoyed ourselves too much that by the time we finished, there was no more transport to take us back to Pakse.We walked along the villages, try to explain to passing vehicles that we need a ride to Pakse but no one wanted to take us because it was late and it's far.My phone was dead,Sarah has no credit.We didn't have any sharp object to open the sim case and insert my sim card to Sarah's iPhone. My mind kept going back to our nice hotel room in Pakse so at one point as the sky was getting darker, I just ran after a pick-up truck full of a Lao family while screaming STOOOOPP. And it did. The family took us about 3 km out of the village.Our nice hotel room is more than 35km away. We finally get another ride from a kind Samaritan who's going to another town through Pakse. When we arrived, Sarah said she never been that happy to see a city.
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