The packet is located at the fusion site of two rivers: Mekong and Ce Don . The overwhelming majority of accommodation options, offices of various services and restaurants are located on or near the eastern shore of Ce Don. Almost all hotels in there are easy to get on foot, although there are a couple of rather popular hotels of high range that are on the east, on Road 13, where to walk to many are too lazy. By the way, the scattering of small inexpensive hotels is even further east, but they are all in scary uncomfortable places - almost isolated from the rest of the city: such options are more choosing only Asian tourist groups.
Road Pakse more often indicated by numbers, not names, and the rooms are given roads without a special order, as it fell. Road signs and pointer the phenomenon is practically non-existent, so if you are going to this city, I would like navigator or map well. Clearly, in the phone the map is all. Some cards that are issued in hotels can even be caught (for example, place some kind of hotel on the wrong side of the river).
Concerning Internet , It is available in many guest houses, hotels and cafes scattered around the city. Almost everywhere WiFi is free, with rare exceptions. If you need to remove money from the card, then Bcel. There are ATMs. Currency exchange can be made in offices along Route 13 in guest houses and restaurants, as well as on Route 11 in the BCEL office, but the course is worse there, and this office works only on weekdays. Postal office The city is located on Road 8, not far from Road 11, south of the city center. Mail works from 08:00 to 12:00 and from 13:00 to 17:00, every day. Services Western Union Available in post only on weekdays.
There is in the city and information center - next to the Lao Airlines office (called Provincial Tourism Office. ). The information presented here is really necessary and accurate: listed hotels, information on the schedule of buses, tour operators and all that should be expected from the provincial tourist center. IN Office Lao Airlines. Next door can help book the flight inside Laos and to other countries. Office phone: (031) 212 252
Concerning Police , since corruption is a phenomenon that exists and thriving in Laos, police sometimes have so-so helpers, until they offer them money. But on the other hand, the bribes do not extort here, as in Cambodia. And yes, most of the police do not speak English.
Most of the tourists complain that there is no good medical care in the pacas. Velcom that Laos, as they say. Well, these poor crushed tourists are departed, as a rule, to the State Hospital, where the level of medical assistance is lower than the world standards. However,
For medical help in the pacas you can go, for example, in International Hitech Poly Clinic which is more focused on providing medical care to foreigners and more wealthy lazzains.
And here there are VIP chambers on the second floor (it is possible not to VIP - the other numbers are also good). The staff in the clinic is talking in English, there is a X-ray department and a laboratory. This clinic is not far from the shopping center: if you stand face to the State Hospital of the city, then to the left of you, at the end of the road there is a large white building with a medical cross on the right above. If you want to go to the building from the street, you need to go away, until the next corner (where the Catholic church is there) and turn right there. However, if something serious happened, it is better to go to Thailand - there is a lot better health system.