Irrawaddy dolphins at Kratie

The journey to Kratie wasn't too bad until they crammed 8 people, including us, into a 5 seater car from some town near Kratie, which took around 3 hours. Kratie wasn't much of a tourist destination, with only one main guesthouse that spoke English and served western food. It was only a brief stay at Kratie, as we only wanted to see the Irrawaddy dolphins, the fresh water river dolphins, so we arranged a tuk tuk the following morning to take us to the main area where these dolphins are chilling.

It cost us $7 for a ticket and a 1hr boat trip on the river. At first it was hard to spot the dolphins because they only just came up enough to breathe but once we spotted our first few, we were like pro's finding them. So now, our mission was to get a good pic, which took a bit of a while but we did manage one. These dolphins weren't as fun as the one's you'd see in the sea and these were a lot uglier with a bottle nose so we got pretty bored once we got our pic.

We had to rush back from the dolphins, so we could get our bus to Ban Lung, our next destination. It was Laos new year on the 14th and we weren't so sure about transport on new years day, so we thought it would be best to move today on the 13th.

Kratie photo link:
http://www3.snapfish.com/snapfish/thumbnailshare/AlbumID=4544707011/a=2264773011_2264773011/otsc=SHR/otsi=SALBlink/COBRAND_NAME=snapfish/