Yesterday we took the bus for 3 hours to Vang Vieng. This town is famous as being a backpacker party town and is really quite minging. The center is full of tacky bars selling buckets (yes buckets, the type that are normally sold with spades at the seaside) full of cheap booze and flogging rubbish food. Lots of the people here are 20 something student travellers, they like to drink until they puke and say ‘hurrah’ a lot. We dubbed it Lao-biza.
Aside from drunken puking, Vang Vieng is also famous for its amazing natural setting – a river running alongside a limestone mountain range and beautiful streams and palm trees everywhere. The top activity is ‘tubing’ down the river!
Today I met up with Jo Pratt, she’s a really good friend of mine - we worked together at Rapier 5 years ago. We realized we’d be in Laos at the same time from Facebook so decided to get together.
Matt was feeling a bit 'windy' and retired to the guest house for the afternoon, whilst Jo and I went tubing – it involved hiring huge tracker inner tubes, getting a tuk-tuk 3 km up river and spending 2 ½ hours floating back to town. We really enjoyed it!
After re-joining Matt and having a bottle of wine, admiring the amazing view from our balcony, we headed into town, drank from buckets and said ‘hoorah’ a lot! Bugger.
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