Savanakhet occupied (unfortunately) 3 nights on two transits of our time. If you can avoid it, don't come here. The guest houses are terrible, food worse (can food be 'extra' bland?), and the people unpleasant - it feels like you're a burden when you want to purchase food in their restaurant.
It was interesting, however, to be in a town that appears to be dying. It was formerly a French colonial trading point, and as such contains many French built buildings, and in it seems too many for the population. The Lao population feels lost in the town, unable to afford any upkeep, the same money seems to go around from one shop to another, neither increase nor improving the town. It feels stagnant, barely clinging on.
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