Once we’d got there and found accommodation, we realised just how relaxed the islands are - if we’d thought that Laos was laid back in general, the 4000 Islands took chilled out to a whole new level! The Big Lebowski would have approved. Many people we met spent days at a time chilling out chatting in the same restaurant, not really leaving except to sleep at night! We did manage a few activities though. One of these was the kayak trip to the Cambodian border. Although this was billed as white-water rafting, there was no white water to speak of and it was pretty much like kayaking on a lake. We might have considered the trip a little boring if we hadn’t seen the extremely rare Irrawaddy dolphins and also illegally visiting Cambodia for lunch!
