Phou Khoun is a small hill station, home to a friendly population of H'Mong who were resettled by the Lao Goverment some years ago. Rather a nice gesture (the H'Mong prefer to live at altitude) considering the beef between H'Mong and the Pathet Lao. There are only two guesthouses in town, and the one I chose was clean with nice views of bamboo forest and villages out back. There is a good downhill section following Phou Khoun, and I passed many cyclists, Dutch, Japanese, more Dutch, and later at the lodgings in Khou Ka Cham there were nine of us bikers crammed in together. Most were first or second timers on tour, but there was a Spainard who had just covered 9,000km through the 'stans and Mongolia, so he entertained us with some outakes from the road. 
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