10/7/09
Left Luang Prubang on the bus to Vieng Vieng. On the way the scenery was AMAZING, up through the northernish hills, past remote villages with people showering on the roadside etc....Had an amazing & free lunch about 1/2 way & arrived early afternoon.
What a funny, funny place well s**t hole springs to mind really! It is purely set up for backpackers who want to watch 'Friends' on TV all day & go river tubing!
So what did we do, walked around in the heat,J talked to a weird looking slightly ill looking man who mentioned spermicide at one point & who we then avoided like the plague, found a guest house & sat downstairs watching friends! Yes J too & he loved it! Ha wait til we get home!
Bumped into Jasmin, Reenie, Erin & Marcel. Ended up going to a bar with Marcel& Reenie for a few more, well until about 1am & J and Marcel order 'Happy' Garlic bread! Say no more!!!!
11/7/09
J & Marcel feeling a bit rough from the potent 'Happy' garlic bread!
Matching 'Team' t-shirts on the 6 of us, 2 Brits, 2 Aussie's & 2 Austrians headed to the office to get our tuuuubes for river tubing!
Very drunk & very, very funny, you tube down the river & they pull you into bars by throwing you a life line, lots of free Laos Whiskey, mud vollyball, mud bath, mud fights, death slides & zip wire's into the river!!!! Not sure it's the safest thing we've done but was definatly the funniest!! Erin excelled in the zip line acrobatic's competition!!
Lost Erin on the way but she managed to find her way back by walking through paddy fields, loosing her camera & watch, scratching up her legs but at least she got back safe & sound!
However.......On the way back I had a near death experience, we were all holding hands on our rings to stay together & my tube hit a tree stump, I was thrown off & went under water & then was caught by my lifejacket on the stump in the middle of the rushing water!!! Luckily Jay managed to hold onto a stump near me otherwise I'd have been well scared, yes I did cry!!! Managed to free myself eventually & get back on my ring, phew the Bird lives to see another day!!! Had massive bruises the next day on my dinner ladies though!!
Check out the photo's on Facebook!
Got back at 1 minute to 6pm so got our full deposit back yay! Oh & I also got a refund on the loan of the waterproof bag which made the near death experience a bit better!
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