Day 6
Our plans for the trip to the source unfortunately change and we decide to return to Zaduo as none of the local guides are prepared to take the risk that day.
Finally after a drive through the magnificent landscape we arrive at the last peak, where the road zigzags back down into the Mekong valley. As we arrive at the base of the mountains a short-lived squall lifts the dust and then leaves us alone to make our way back to the hotel with a typically horrific toilet.
After dinner, washing clothes in the communal wash room, a well dressed man over hears our conversation about getting to the source of the Mekong. In talking to him we discover that the man is none other than Kitamura Masayuki one of the co-discoverers of the sources of the Mekong river.
We are both deeply amazed at our good fortune and not a little paranoid and suspicious about just bumping into someone claiming to be a discoverer of the Mekong by chance in this lonely town. He agrees to join us for a chat in the morning, and we decide to play dumb about our greater purpose while plumbing him for as much information as possible.
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