Vang Vieng

So we make it to the party capital of Laos! Literally all there is in VV is bars/clubs/hangover restaurants and hotels, so quite cool but only for a couple of days! We had a strike of bad luck with the weather in VV, a couple of days all it did was rain so we spent our time watching 24 and in the numerous restaurants that play Friends and Family Guy all day – I was pretty happy to be doing that for a day or so.

 

The main attraction in VV is ‘TUBING’! Basically a pub crawl down the river on inflatable lorry inner-tubes, a crazy stupid idea but that’s just part of the fun. We had a really fun time doing it, loads of free Lao Whiskey shots everywhere and cheap drinks, really didn’t take long to get in to the swing of tubing!

 

At one of the bars down the river there was a mud volleyball pitch, and after a few whiskeys I thought it would be a great idea to play – it was! We all got covered in mud but it was so fun, although my nice bikini has definitely now lived to see better days! We carried on down the river stopping in various bars along the way for a few hours then Ben and I decided to get out and grab a tuktuk back (because if you didn’t have the tube back by 6pm you lost your deposit, and we were cutting it close!) but not before having a nice little dance with the locals at our last bar!

 

We left the day after tubing – can’t party that hard anymore! Really glad we went but will probably not be visiting again. But it is the place to go if you want to meet large groups of 18yr old boys!