Sean and I have returned to Pakse with some unfinished business on the Champi river.
On the day Craig and I completed the first descent on the Upper Champi he lost his camera with our only shots of the white water. It was not described in much detailed but this section of river between the abseil [...]

Sean and I have been in Dong Det (an island in the middle of the Mekong) now for a few days. What we have found here is an amazing place with more white water then we could ever achieve in the few days we have here. Big waves, some of the scariest looking grade 6 [...]

We have just arrived back into Pakse to say goodbye to Craig and to head to Dong Kong after arguably the most fruitful trip of the expedition.
We took a four-hour journey from Pakse to a small and remote town of Se Kong, This area was heavily effected by the bombings from the Vietnam war and [...]

A number of events have happened over the last few days after our hike out of upper Champi. The day after our gruelling day Lachie and I decided that it would be appropriate to spend the day nursing our scratches, bruises and very sore bodies.
The next morning Lachie and I went back to Tad Champi, [...]

Yesterdays plan involved running the1st descent of the upper section of the Champi River. The maps we had purchased suggested that the river would be gorged in and not too steep.

As we were driving to the put in at the still un-run Champi Falls Lachie had the bright idea to buy a big knife [...]