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21/10/10 Luang prabang to Vang Vieng
Not a good start to the day, the people at the guest house still made me pay for the room last night, even though there were cockroaches. Not having a good expereince of Laos people, they are ruse and just seem to want your money.
The bus ride to Vang Vieng was amazing, the scenery was awesome, some of the best I have ever seen, massive mountians and valleys.
Was good to see our friends again in vang Vieng, have become a little bit like our own family now. Basically vang Vieng is a plave in Laos where you can go tubing. So you float down the river in an inner tube to different bars along the way, do rope swings and drink lots of buckets.
All the reunited friends went out for dinner and then to a bar called bucket bar, where the clue is in the name for what we were drinking, buckets of whisky, which worringly is growing on me!! Its an outdoor bar with loads of hammocks and platforms for dancing, everyone seems to know everyone as we all seem to be on the same tourist route, it's almost like going out at home, but so much better.
Our friend kammal turned out to be a dark horse and could swing fire balls like a pro, I had a go at that but was terrible as I'm far to sensible, was also pretty bad at fire limbo!
22/10/10
Vang Vieng - Tubing day 1
So excited about tubing today, pretty much the only reason people come to laos!
was adament I was not gonna get any spray paint on me, drink any buckets or do any rope swings, broke all rules in about 15 minutes.
My friend Ryan sprayed me completely yellow, we all had bandanas on and were swinging into the river and drinking sangsom the local whiskey as well as the fee shots at every bar. The river was pretty warm which was good. floated to the different bars all day, there was a mud volleyball pit which we all ended up in at one point. I have never had so much fun in my whole life, it was insane.
The ride home in the tuk tuk was pretty funnt, we were all singing and the boys were sat on the roof.
After trying and failing to get the spray paint off we all hit bucket bar... again, I love bucket bar!
23/10/10 Vang Vieng
Visited some caves today, and one cave was full of water so you have to get in a tube and pull yourself through it in the dark. Water was freezing, tubing defiantely is not as fun in the the dark, sober with cold water.
Had a pretty early night, Vang Vieng is so exhausting!
24/10/10
Everyones having a chill out day today as we are all partying a bit to hard in laos! Ended up in bar that just plays South park on loop, and we all just sat there for hours. Not seeing much culture here, but sometimes you need to have a chill out or you just make yourself ill, thats what i'm telling myself anyway!
Then because we all go a bit bored we ended up playing drinking games with lots of shot fines, then onto bucket bar.....again! me and another guy raided the DJ booth and we all danced alot and had a great night. My friend Mike knows all the Loas baguette women as he is there best customer so we all got deals on amazing baguettes, they call him Mr Mike, they love him.
25/10/10 Vang Vieng Tubing day 2
All went tubing again as it's so much fun, same as the first day really, awesome.
There was an absolutely amazing thunder storm about 5am. The storm made no noise until it was directly overhead, the loudest thunder clap i have ever had, i thought a bomb had gone off. The fork lightning was blinding, Ami and I hit the floor, just out of reflex it was that bad, the rain was torrential for about 5 hours.
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Aunty Vivvy Hitting the floor seems to be getting a habit!