Vang Vieng

Have heard alot of hype about Vang Vieng, many people going around Asia with 'tubing in the Vang Vieng river' t-shirts. So we thought we'd see what all the fuss is about. We planned to stay 2 nights meaning we'd get to go tubing once. Tubing is basically where you go along the river in a rubber ring and stop at the make shift bars along the way. Which I thought would be fun for a day but surely it couldn't be that amazing ... but I was wrong, we have loved it here and have ended up staying 5 nights + have 1 more to go (woops) so will have a couple less nights in Vietnam.

The Laos people are really nice here, they hassle you far less than people in Thailand and it's just a really relaxed place. The crowd are so fun, everyone here looks so happy all the time and the mountaneous view by the river is great! We've spent the last few days with 3 english guys, who are at Exeter uni and the managed to persuade us to stay a little longer. Our accomodation is lush too! Brand new bungalow by the river, wake up every morning to the view of mountains by a river for the bargain price of 4pound each.

You hear alot of horror stories about tubing and I can understand why, it's wet season now and the river is pretty fast, but aslong as you don't drink too much and stay in a group then everyone looks out for eachother!

Last day of tubing today and then on to Vietnam on a 24 hour sleeper bus from here to Hanoi (eurrrghh). Looking forward to Vietnam now but can't believe we have less than 2 weeks left now! We'll be in Hanoi for 2 nights and then will do a Halong Bay boat trip.

A few pictures from the last five days: