Mounlapamok District

Mounlapamok district is situated in Champasak province, Laos.

Laos. This is a small town and less visited by local and oversea visitors. In the past this area can be accessed only by boat along the Mekong River and there was no road linking from villages to villages.

Transportation to this part of the country is extremely difficult especially during dry season, big boats can only access during the wet season when the Mekong River is in full capacity. Along the Mekong River, there are navigation's buoy left by French to guide the boat up and down the river.

If you're entering the town from route 13 you have to take a ferry across the Mekong River as picture below.

Alternatively, if you do not want to use the ferry, you can cross the bridge in Pakse over the Mekong River to Phone Thong district, then driving south passing Champasak, Soukouma districts and finally you will get to this town at no time.

Today, this town is changing fast. The roads infrastructure had been built linking major cities like Pakse, Si Phan Don and neighboring countries Thailand and Cambodia. The new markets, shops, houses, council's offices and hospital are being built to cope with a growing number of population.

So, this is a growing town and there are opportunity for local and oversea investors who want to seize on this golden opportunity to invest in their dream business venture. At the time of writing there are a numbers of Chinese, Vietnamese businesses already opened shops in every corners of the town.

Map

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Checkpoint Between Laos And Cambodia

Hang Pasak Checkpoint

Checkpoint's Office

The checking point at the end of Laos border with Cambodia is Hang Pasak. There is a river called Selampao river which act as border's line between the two countries. At the moment the people along the border area can go back and forth and do business with each other without a paper. Commercial goods, machinery, agriculture products, timber, oil and gas need to have a paper before export or import to the country.

What to see

Sathanbuhal Silaluck

Sathanbuhal Silaluck is a historic site believe to be built in many centuries ago and situated about 25 km east of the main town. The site is easy access from the main road and there are two buildings constructed by the local authority for visitors to have a rest and for villagers to celebrate Buddhist festival for this historic site once a year.

The statue in the site is headless and believed it was vandalized by someone in the past. On the wall of the site there are scripts writing similar to bali and sancrist, but according to the historian the true meaning of the writing is till unclear as they can not find someone who can read that script yet.

Dong Katung

Dong Katung is dense forest rich in all kind of wild life animals including elephants. During the Indochina war fighting here were very fierce inside and around this area and as a results many elephants were killed and wounded. Today, no one know how many elephants are left in the forest.

Dong Katung is also rich in timber, many trees are more than 200 years old and some of them are very hard to find not even in Laos but in Southeast Asia as well. In the past two decades heavy commercial logging and cutting the wood had made the valuable timber disappear permanently from this forest. Unless dramatic action has been taken immediately to stop logging, this forest won't be available for our grand-grand children to see and enjoy in the future.

How to get there

Southern Bus Station

Southern bus station in Pakse ( KM 8 )

Situated on route 13 at Km 8 south of town also known in Lao language as Khiu lot lak pet. This bus terminal operates the bus from here to Si Phan Don (Khong Island), Bolaven Plateau (Paksong), Salavan , Attapeu and many others destinations.

Pakse - Mounlapamok (Nadi)

Mini vans and Songtheos leave this bus station to Mounlapamok (Nadi) every day from 10:30am to 1:30pm

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