Theme Week Laos – Champasak Town
Wednesday, 23 September 2020 - 12:00 pm (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: Asia / Asien Category/Kategorie: General , UNESCO World Heritage
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River bank of Don Khon with stilt wooden houses at golden hour from Don Det © Basile Morin/cc-by-sa-4.0
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Champasak is a small town in southern
Laos , on the west bank of the
Mekong River about 40 km south of
Pakse , the capital of
Champasak Province . The town was once the seat of the
Kingdom of Champasak , an independent Lao state which was abolished by the
French in 1945 when they created the Kingdom of Laos, but the last King of Champasak had his palace in
Pakse .
Today the town is very small, consisting mostly of guesthouses along the riverbank, catering to tourists visiting the Wat Phu temple ruins, since 2001 a UNESCO World Heritage Site , some 10 km away.
River bank of Don Khon with stilt wooden houses at golden hour from Don Det © Basile Morin/cc-by-sa-4.0
The small town of Champasak is connected by ferries across the Mekong to
national route 13 on the left side of the Mekong and thus to Pakse. The city is also connected to the Lao Nippon Friendship Bridge in Pakse via an asphalt road, which opened in 2013, without using the ferry. Wat Phu can be reached from Champasak via an asphalt road.
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