Vang Vieng Travel Blogs

I am suffering right now from what I call 'Morning Starvation From No, Nothing, Breakfast.. erm, Syndrome'. I was also dizzy earlier because I also had 'You Can Not Drinking Water, Makes You Dizzy, After Waking Up Weirdo.. Syndrome'. So this is how I blabber this early in the morning. What can I sa…

After our mighty Gibbon adventure it's time for me to catch up with my LaoCrew. The two Israeli, Germans and Poms went on the two day slowboat to Luang Prabang, so if I get there in one day I'm effectively only one day behind. Getting to Luang Prabang in one day from Houay Xai means either cat…

DAY 16 hours blabbing on over beers and 7 hours of a goodnight's sleep on a train. 1 hour powering through hassles. 5 hours incessantly starving on the dusty road. A total of 19 hours exhaustion melted away as soon as I set foot in Vang Vieng. Oh, I was in love again... :) So according to my travel…

First my memory card seemed to be okay, so I took it to the local photo shop to burn a DVD to have the photos.. while walking back I feel light headed and a bit sick, I get to bed and start feeling a whole lot worse quickly... The 2 straight days of drinking in the heat, with very little water is c…

My alarm did a really good job to wake me up at 5 AM. We got our butts in gear and headed to the nearest Wat to witness the giving alms to the monks’ ceremony. We bought the alms from the local lady that cost us 20,000 per basket. Baskets normally consist of a big bowl of sticky rice and bananas …

I didn’t really feel up to top form when I woke, nor did Lori, not surprisingly, but we all turned up at the restaurant; all except Wayne that is, who chose to lie in and catch up with sleep.  We sat watching repeats of Friends and snacking on sandwiches, before myself and Lori decided we…

Yesterday evening I enthusiastically agreed to join Ian, Baskets, Mark and Nicole for a Tubing session today.  Buuuut on quieter reflection after we parted I know that undoubtedly fun (for a while) though it would be it is not the experience I want to take away from my very limited time in Van…

" Take it easy, take it easy, Don't let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy." Take it Easy - The Eagles We had agreed to sleep late this morning, but for some reason I was awake at 7 and couldn't get anymore sleep. I decided to sit in the garden near the Nam Song river and catch up on s…

     Nope, Never!!! Well at 8am this morning I was up and packing my bags ready to go kayaking. Trying to decide what I should pack in my daypack. Should I take a first aid kit, is it dangerous, how many changes of clothes, camera, phone, valuab…

Along the drive from Vientiane to Vang Vieng, I replaced my camera batteries but it still wouldn't work. The screen was prompting me to format my memory card and I didn't want to do that and delete the hundreds of pictures I had taken. But without doing it, I couldn't use the card. I put it asi…

Rock Climbing was on the top of my list for things to do in South East Asia.  I new there were really good places around but the only one I new by name before getting over here was the Thai mecca, Krabi.  It just so happens that the three people I was traveling with when going through…

DAY 1 Nursing a slight hangover again which was becoming more and more common I got up at 9am. We all booked on a minivan to Vang Vieng. We couldn’t go at 11.30 so we went at 1.30 so we wasted a few hours with a game of monopoly where I got back to winning ways. At 1.30pm we got to the bus sta…

Had a great time today.  I met a couple of guys from Singapore, Peter and Ben.  They are definately, uhh... city boys, not so used to the fun outdoors.  They were great fun.  We took a 6 km bike ride out of town to a beautiful lagoon.  I did a lot of swimming, but more jump…

Christ what a whirlwind! My four days in Vang Vieng were the epitome of rock 'n' roll travel. I partied like it was 2099 - snorting narcotics from the heaving busoms of horny teen travel vixens, drank JD like it was water and beer like it was the elixir of youth. I mushroom-shaked my happy self dow…

I got out to get breakfast at the Luang Prabang bakery again and then booked a VIP bus to Vientiane for tomorrow. I figured that after the tubing I wouldn't wasnt to pack my bag so, since I still had some time, did that before I met up with Matt and Susie at the tube rental place. I got a tube and …