Si Phan Don - what I've done and advise you to do

1. Rent a bike

For seeing well the island(s), I guess the best way is riding a bike. As I said, the landscape is breathtaking and going slowly through with your fully open eyes and camera is such an agreeable experience (and cheap !).

2. Search for the rare and endangered Irrawaddy dolphins

Tobias and me hear that you maybe have a chance to see sweet water dolphins in the south of Don Kon. We head there with a tuk tuk.

The way is kind of long and the road really difficult because of plenty of holes and mud.

To get there, we cross fields, bridges, and what we're happy to call a "jungle".

Arrived, we take a boat with a Laotian woman. We are floating among huge dark green mountains.

She stops us far from the pier and we begin to wait for the famous dolphins. Hoping as never before, we're scrutinizing meticulously the water.

Suddenly, the back of one of the Irrawaddy shows up. Then another (or the same), again and again. We spend an hour trying to see them as much as we can, and take at least one good picture, which is a real challenge as they're shortly visible.

We're so amazed and surprised, because we basically thought that it was a tourists trap and we didn't really expect to see even one from far.

Few days later, we find out that we're super lucky cause the dolphins appear mostly two or three times or not at all per tour !

3. Stop at the Somphamit or Li Phi waterfalls

From Don Det, after the French bridge which leads you to Don Kon, you must stop at the Somphamit waterfalls.

It's sometimes called by the locals, the "small waterfalls" because there's bigger ones on another island, Phapheng. But it's hard to reach and kind of far from Don Det.

But if seeing the small ones is enough for you, it is amazingly beautiful and still huge.

Near the waterfalls is a tiny beach surrounded by black rocks when you can have a swim. A cool bar-restaurant is also waiting for you there, right above the sand.