Nong Khai

Stay here and relax.

Best Guest house is Mut Mee Guest House on the river where they serve great food, have wonderful staff and a Yoga centre next door.

www.mutmee.net
http://www.pantrix.net/yoga.html

We bought some souvenirs at the market there – cheap stuff from Laos and China, as well as local produce and Japanese samurai porcelain (!). Some of the meat is quite good, we didn’t trust the fish as much. The Mekong is quite unexciting at that stretch, just a big brown mass quietly pushing on. The Laos bank looks just the same as the Thailand one, so no interest there, either…