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just arrived in vang vieng now. so what have we been doing...
well our last night in luang phabang we ended up going bowling again but got kinda bored and stepped it up to improv-bowling but it got bit outa hand when Arj did a shot-put and chris just walked down the alley and threw the ball at the pins. then the face sang "wild rover" at the top of his lungs on the way home (4 hours after curfew). next day we went swimming and trekin at a waterfall where irish face jumped in from a height to 1 foot deep water and damaged his foot, ha! also got to dive off trees and the higher level.
next day was another bus over to phonsavanh which is a kinda remote place with some weirdos in it but we got to see the plain of jars which is loads of burial urns but noone really knows where they came from. its also littered with unexploded cluster bombs which cause hundreds ofinjuries and deaths each year. Lao is the most bombed country in the world and all the guesthouses are decorated with huge shells and there are craters everywhere. there was a small monsoon during "lunch" (noodle water) and the "restaurant" (shack) flooded, leaving me to carry irish face and his broken foot through the flood to the bus. that night some crazy drunk local tried to tell us about his problems in drunken lao french but, we ran off when he looked away.
this morning we got a bus here to vang vieng. it went along "highway 13" the country's main road which is a narrow road, paved in parts, along the tops of the mountains. the guy beside me had a machine gun with him and the bus driver decided to stop for 2 hours and pick up a towns entire harvest of leeks (or something similar), he put the whole lot in the bus around us but then decided to take it all back out and put it on the roof, some laugh. twas a nice journey nonetheless, from the road you can see hundreds of miles of untouched green covered mountains. the country is lovely, even if everything does close at 10 oclock.
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