\n Nowhere is the Mekong River<\/strong> as wide as just north of the border with Cambodia.<\/strong> From shore to shore the distance is 14 kilometers, and this vast area is dotted with countless islands. Most are uninhabited, there are hardly any roads. Even electricity is not a matter of course here. The rhythm of life slows down to the speed of a bike, a tuktuk, a boat or a pair of slippers.<\/p>\n \n Actually, you don’t have to do much more here than look around, relax, have a bite to eat, laze in a hammock. The chance encounter with a local resident and the chat with a fisherman brings you close to the people. A beach holiday without the sea, but the Mekong River is everywhere. The beaches and banks sometimes share with water buffaloes, which hang out in the shade for a while.<\/p>\n \n The water landscapes of Si Phan Don<\/strong> are nothing short of picturesque. A boat ride through the labyrinth is a visual feast, your camera is working overtime. Continue to scan the surface of the water, looking for signs that dolphins are swimming. The rare Irrawaddy dolphin<\/strong> is found in this part of the Mekong, and with any luck you’ll see the distinctive stubby nose rise above the water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On the countless islands and islets in the Mekong River, life picks up an extremely soothing rhythm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":22158,"parent":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"country":[244],"highlight_category":[602],"continent_category":[217],"class_list":["post-32810","highlights","type-highlights","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","country-laos","highlight_category-gebied-en","continent_category-asia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlights\/32810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlights"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/highlights"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/303"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlights\/32810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=32810"},{"taxonomy":"highlight_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlight_category?post=32810"},{"taxonomy":"continent_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/continent_category?post=32810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n WATER BUFFALOES ON THE BEACH<\/h4>\n
\n IRRAWADDY DOLPHINS<\/h4>\n