Vang Vieng, tubing and alcohol

Soooo..my temporary travel companion Liv and I were rather skeptical about Vang Vieng as it basically sounded like spring break. We had to pass Vang Vieng on out way south and booked 2 nights at Pans house for 25000kip in one of their bamboo bungalows.


The 4hr drive from Luang Prabang is a very fast, bumpy, scary but beautiful drive. I recommend it!


First evening - tired and sober we disliked the drunk teens and bars. Was too overwhelming.


Day 1 - Tubing
Was SO much fun. Apart from the landscape I fell in love with, tubing was a lot more chill.
If you didn't like the bar/music or people, you just floated to the next.
People were more chill during the day and we welcomed all the free shots, beer ping pong etc.


Day 2 - The blue lagoon
I'd take a scooter or walk next time. The roads in Laos aren't dirt roads but more like stone roads.. ;)
Took around 30min but we unfortunately fell for one scam. A big yellow sign claiming to be the blue lagoon distracted us from tfe actual correct sign and we ended up coming to a murky lagoon that underwhelmed us. Fortunately we were only half scammed as we paid 5000kip instead of 10000kip each ;)
Once we got there - sweating from our bumpy bike ride, we jumped right in and chilled there.


Day 3 - Tubing again


We had to attempt to tube down the entire river. As you lose your deposit if the tube isn't returned by 18:00 we started off earlier and with some friends who joined us in VV.


Unfortunately like the second night, we didn't want to go out to party/drinking again so there was little to do as all restaurants close 23:30-00:00 and our guest house had no wifi.
Only draw back in VV!


Here a sum up in video!


Anyway, going to have a second shower in my TILED bathroom, meet up some folks here in Ventiane and check out the night life before heading to Bangkok tomorrow in yet another sleeping bus ;)

PS:
Price for tubing 55000kip + 60000kip deposit.
Bus Vang Vieng-Ventiane departing at 9:00/13:30 50000kip

Biggest chocolate cake slice ever :)

First bar at tubing central

And another bar...

Biking to the lagoon

As warned - it took us a while to find, but the one and only Blue Lagoon everyone talks about. Ice cold water, Koi fish and caves if you wish to venture...

The drive to and from Vang Vieng was breathtaking...