Up early again to get a bus to Vang Vien which only took 6 hours. I met Holly, Emily and Rex from Devon who i stayed with at Pans guest house. Vang Vien is very different from Luang Prabang its not pretty, its full of backpackers which means there's loads of bars and places showing Friends.

We rented bikes for the day (to burn off some of the cakes) and went around the town and to the local market were i was tempted to buy the cooked rats on sticks for my lunch, NOT.

The next day we kayaked down the river for a few hours which was good but there were lots of rapids. We then went on an elephant trek around a village.

The most popular thing to do in Vang Vien is tubbing, which means you sit in a rubber ring and float down the river. We started at 11am and finished at 6pm, we managed to stop at 11 bars out of the 12 on route. As you can imagine this is rather dangerous alcohol and a river, 2 people died the week before i arrived.