Khong Chiam, Ubon

A friend kindly took me around Ubon province around Khong Chiam district specifically.

Places like Pa Taem, where there's this cliff with spectacular views overlooking the Mekong river across to Laos. At the bottom of the cliff there is a walk where you can see pre-historic ochre rock rock paintings, similar to ones in parts of Australia, etc.

Then there are waterfalls. Mostly by reputation as most of them are rather dry, no thanks to the drought in these parts. Water trickling over nice rocks rather than falling.

Also crossed over briefly into Laos at Chong Mek. Just saw a few shops selling T-shirts and trinkets and there is the usual trade of smuggled and imitation goods from China. Also well known is the supposedly legal cpies of CDs, DVDs from China available for a third of their price in the rest of Thailand. Only got a T-shirt .