Vangviang Organic Farm Vang Vieng

Another early morning start the next day found us on a bus to Vien Viang. This local bus made it up and down the hills without any problem, and boy were there some hills! The scenery was spectacular with the early morning mist on the mountains followed by the most amazing limestone karst shapes. <br><br>The bus took a pit stop on the way to let people stretch out and the engine cool down. The ...

... side that have good music, areas to dance, swings, slides, and mudpits. When you're tired of one bar you hop in your tube and float to the next one and do it all over again! Such great times! Will definately be on the top of my list for Crazy experiences in South East Asia! <br><br>After spending 9 fun filled nights in Vang Vieng we moved on ...

... went tubing, where you basically float down the river on a huge inner tube for several hours enjoying the sunshine and stopping at the many bars along the river that are equipped with zip lines, rope swings and slides! Needless to say the next day we both had big hangovers!

Tubing injuries:<br>- left knee: bruised and swollen, resulting in extreme pain when bending it<br>- left hip: hideously bruised and scratched<br>- left hand: small cut to palm<br>- right leg: large graze below the knee<br>- right foot, sole: deep and painful cut a few inches below the big toe <br>- back: large graze below the right shoulder<br>- various other minor scrapes and bruises<br><br>Rocks are not my friend!<br><br>In the morning Susan left for ...

... will be listed in tomorrow's entry! Once at the next bar, again it was too dark to tube back, and there were also no tubes regardless, so, having rediscovered Ash and Adam we walked about five minutes through forest and over a bridge until we got to a bar called Mr Lao Lao's. More buckets were bought (error) and the bloke running the place was a dude as he let us choose the music from his iPod. There were only abut four or five of us there by then end, which was quite cool, but ...

... on they pulled us in. Avoiding some precariously-placed rocks, no sooner had we hit dry land than we ordered a bucket. We stayed about twenty minutes but the bar wasn't too busy at this point, though we could see that Bar I was massively hotting up. Me and Mark decided to climb a wooden platform by the river and fly down a zip-line into the water. This was great, though I really should have remembered to close my legs as I hit the water, for obvious ...

... girls had beaten me to it.<br>Busily trying each of the best carefully out, one of them decided,<br>'I'll have this one.'<br>Thanks a bunch. I felt I wouldn't get a look it if reliability was what I was relying upon or looking for. Once they'd sped off in smug satisfaction, it was my turn.<br>I tried a few, not very good, so settled for one in which the chain began jumping on the largest chainwheel. I wasn't ...

... river. As well as, there are lots of cool things to waste your days away doing, like tubing down a shallow river which is barely moving while grabbing beer laos from small cabanas perfectly located every few meters, and lots of caving too. But i couldnt accept how amazing this place was because every few meters in town you couldnt help but be appalled by the hoards of stoned (on opium or weed shakes or god knows what) laying around watching endless episodes of friends ...

... 100m along the river that hold out long bamboo poles to pull you in. Once there you can have a beer or three and just sit in the sun or take your turn at one of the tall swings that fling you out into the river. <br><br>Of course, I was a swingin' fool. One of the gang took a video of me swinging out over the river and diving in. If I can get my hands on a copy I'll post it. <br><br>In between tubing days we filled our time laying in ...