Tough choices
It has just dawned on me that I only have about five weeks left out here and that that means making some tough choices about what to do. I know. I know. I shouldn’t complain and yes, I too can hear a quartet of the world’s smallest violins playing in the background. However I do face a bit of a dilemma.
I’m currently in Pakse, with plans to spend the next few days in Si Phan Done - a group of (supposedly) 4,000 islands in the Mekong by the Cambodian border. After that, I’m heading on into Cambodia. So far, it is all very easy. The issue is that I would love to spend the last couple of weeks of my holiday scuba diving in the Andaman Sea and/or relaxing on a tropical beach somewhere. If I do that, I will have less than three weeks in Cambodia which means making some tough decisions about what to do and, more importantly, what to skip.
On the one hand, I will probably never get another chance to visit the Eastern provinces of Cambodia whereas it wouldn’t be too tough to visit the islands of the Gulf of Thailand for a week or two sometime. On the other, I really do want to spend some time diving, sunbathing and generally chilling out before I head home.
Oh well. Lying in a hammock on Don Khon with a bottle of beer lao seems like a good place to mull it all over.
