Our "VIP" bus to VVOn our second day in Lao we took the afternoon “VIP” bus to Vang Vieng. It’s only about 150km but it takes 3 hours, especially when your “VIP” bus looks like it’s about 100 years old and all the baggage is strapped on the roof. We found a hotel and chilled out in preparation of the coming 2 days.... of tubing!
Tubing in Lao is a little bit like the Texas version. Same in that you pay money to rent a tube and get a ride to a point further up river. Different in that you are barely on your tube and can see the end point from the beginning; there are bars all along the river; the bars all have a zipline, rope swing, or slide into the river; and well that’s it really. So we did that 2 days in a row. The weather was unagreeable, it was overcast and since Lao is in the Northern Hemisphere and it’s November no sun = not warm. The second day we all shivered our way down the river but luckily most bars have a big fire warm yourself at. 3 of our group pussed out and didn’t come the second day, but Ben and his g/f showed up and came instead. We spent a lot of that 2nd say at the bar with the monkey. It was a little gray monkey with a long tail and really creepy looking eyes. We ended the last day at the big slide. This was a mistake. I landed funny and knocked the wind out of myself and felt like a walking, talking bruise for the next days… but looking back I still would’ve done it.
View down river from the first bar
First zipline of the day
The first bar later on...
The slide on Day 1- didn't hurt.
Day Two
First Beer Lao of the day... 1pm
Monkey trying to drink free whiskey shots... he succeeded but I wasn't fast enough with the camera
Mud volleyball
In the mud pit... it was almost 7ft deep!
Near the end, about to go on a rope swing
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