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Vang Vieng - where to start?! This place is just one street full of madness. along the way there is bars blaring out Friends so we limited our choice to ones that let you choose what to watch. the menus are interesting. You get your run of the mill menu and your "happy menu". This consists of anything you can imagine to put weed, mushrooms or "doctor O", the O being Opium. Shakes (not the ones after a night on the piss), pizzas, you know I can't remember what else!!! We said cheery bye to Sarah, Laura and Susie but I'm sure our paths will cross again someday. Blair went on to Vientianne cos it has the only cash machine in the whole country!

Lockdown in Vang Vieng

Gareth Penpraze
2007-04-20 22:33:26

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Vang Vieng - where to start?! This place is just one street full of madness. along the way there is bars blaring out Friends so we limited our choice to ones that let you choose what to watch. the menus are interesting. You get your run of the mill menu and your "happy menu". This consists of anything you can imagine to put weed, mushrooms or "doctor O", the O being Opium. Shakes (not the ones after a night on the piss), pizzas, you know I can't remember what else!!! We said cheery bye to Sarah, Laura and Susie but I'm sure our paths will cross again someday. Blair went on to Vientianne cos it has the only cash machine in the whole country!

Spent the first day getting wrecked in a small bar on an island connected to the town by a rickety wooden bridge. The bar man was feeding us with Lao Lao whiskey with honey. Very nice but as usual I over did it!! So the next day came to the tubing. Basically you get a big tractor tube and you go a few KM's upstream and float back to town. Sounds tame, but far from it!!

There's a half a dozen bars on route with rope swings so you can stop off for a Beer Lao or two. Some Korean guy died the week before doing it but I think he was concussed and drunk, but don't know the whole truth. We finish off then dander down the "main street" and there's the Blairos 1.5 million kip heavier. We meet a guy who studies in Dundee- hi Andy if your reading - and knows one of Phils mates from home. Typical Dundee eh! He's been "stuck" here for a week now, its that easy to lose time here.

Me and Phil hire some mountain bikes and cycle to some caves bout 6km outta town. We pass over a couple of wooden bridges and a local family have got their tractor and trailor stuck in the mud. Being the good Samaritans that we are, we stop and help. I'm pulling on the back and a plank snaps making me fly backward into the mud, making the whole family piss themselves laughing!! After 20 mins and enlisting the services of an israeli guy we get the bugger out and head on. A really satisfying experience even though
I'm absolutely stinking now!! We head on and the heavens open. We get to the cave and we have to climb about 200m up a mountain while a river of red muddy water makes the whole climb slippy and pretty dangerous. In the cave and we explore for an hour finding a sleeping budda and a wee lake. We sit and eat lunch in the dark then go back down again in torrential rain. There's a lagoon there as well so we have a swim and cycle back to Vang Vieng.

The next couple of days its just lashes down so we find a place and watch a season or two of Family guy. The wandering Paddy has returned from northern Laos so we just spend the time on the lash!! Its a great town to chill so if you ever go always plan a week there!!

Might be some time before this is updated again. Internet is too slow here..
Gareth Penpraze
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