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After our horrific stay in Chiang kong we got a bus to the Laos boarder control and then to the slow boat to begin our journey. After the first day of boring travelling on this weird long boat we arrived in Pakbeng, the strangest little village we have ever seen. Just a few buildings on the bank of the river. When the boat pulled in all the Pakbeng people ran to greet us and offered to help us with our bags. However, we had been warned some may try and run off with your things so we held on to our heavy bags and climbed up the muddy bank where a lorry waited for us and drove us up the hill to our hostel. The hostel owners were really forcing us to buy their food and drinks, looking at us as if we were walking dollar signs. So we ran away to explore the village, which took about 5 minutes to walk through. We found a nice little bar to have dinner and drinks and met a group of boys from our boat. We were given complementary shots of whiskey which blew our heads off! When the bar shut at 11pm we tried to find somewhere where we could carry on the night as every single shop on the street had also closed. We found a sign saying club Eutopia 70m and arrow pointing up a hill. We all decided that it could not mean 70miles and made up the hill in the dark to find this club. We were cornered by wild dogs and gave up our hunt for the club an ran away to bed. We later found out Eutopia was in fact in Laung Prabang our end destination after another long day on the slow boat. Which led to the question... Did the 9 hour slow boat only travel 70 miles?
We spent the second day on the slow boat playing ridiculous amounts of card games, consequences, and 'who am I' with the boys. When we arrived in Laung Prabang we checked in to Spicy Laos backpackers, which is apparently the place to be AKA a dump! We went for food in this proper Laos street market. It was very Asian and cultural and we were sat with people from all over the world and made some Japanese friends. Afterwards we went to get a bottle of vodka for like £2 and headed back to spicy to pre drink with all our slow boat friends. We learn a new game called f*** you which got everyone pretty drunk then a lot of zimmy zimmy was played, but we had to give up as the Australians and this strange English girl were too drunk and so we thought it would be a good time to head out. The plan was obviously to go to Eutopia which was advertised in the village we were in a day ago ha. However, Laung Prabang has a ridiculous 11 pm curfew and the only place open to drink was a bowling alley and so we all got a tuk tuk there. We were one of the first people there and it all seemed a bit strange, later on the place was filled with backpackers. We all drank so much whiskey as it was insanely cheap and bowled against each other in teams, getting more and more hammered. It was a hilarious night. When it shut at 2:30 we all got a tuk tuk back, everyone was para and the boys were trying to get on the roof and feed the diver whiskey. When we arrived back at spicy we all carried on drinking as we had brought back to big bottles of whiskey and carried on playing drinking games. Someone passed Ellie a Bottle of what she thought was normal alcohol and so she eagerly downed it only to find it much to her disgusted surprise it was a bottle of snake juice with an actual dead snake in LOL. It was the worst thing she had tasted in her life. Lisa and Sarah somehow stayed until gone 6am chatting s*** about life such as politics absolutely hammered with some of the guys. After very little sleep we all got up absolutely hanging at 9am and went with Jaz and the ozzy boys to the waterfall. It was incredible... We were just expecting a standard waterfall you could bathe in, like all the other ones we had seen on our travels. However, this one was huge and crazy, you weren't allowed in it you just watched the crazy water, we'd never seen anything like it. We also managed to see some bears there too which was also pretty incredible. Then in the evening Lisa, Ellie, Sarah, Dave, Chris, Kiko and Ash all got our own private minibus to Vang Vieng where the partying would really begin. The views on the journey were amazing as we travelled through mountains and saw across Laos.
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