A failed trip to the lagoon close by, meant one thing. When in Vang Vieng do what the Vang Viengians do....TUBING. We have found this to be our favourite line at the moment - When in Vang Vieng. Instantly the vibe wasn't the same, we had to make new friends and the bars were different as they change every 3 days due to them having a close in 2012. On arrival at bar 4, we were told to just carry on as there was nobody there. So with 4 others we had met we ...

Today we do not love Vang Vieng. M & C xxxx

With a day of tubing planned with everyone last night, we presumed everyone would have a different idea today. But we all pulled together and set off to the tubing station. After we had signed away any right to sue we were boarded onto a tuk tuk and taken to the first bar. You may have heard about tubing in Vang Vieng, it is the main attraction for travelers in Laos.... And how 21 people died in 2012. Since then it is much more regulated and the bars have calmed ...

We finally understand what Laos PDR means. Please Don't Rush. We were sat on the bus to Vang Vieng for an hour and 40 minutes before it even moved. So a 4 hour journey turned into 6. We booked ourselves into Pan's Place and it's always fun trying to figure out where you are when you get dropped off in the town using the tiny map in the Lonely Planet. It's always the first challenge of a new place. The only other challenge Vang Vieng offered was how drunk ...

With one more day in Vientiane, it seemed too much. The only main attraction was to visit the COPE Centre which supports people affected by unexplored bombs left from the Vietnam War. When America left Vietnam, they dumped the left over ammunition on Laos because it was not safe to land with it onboard. This bombing went on constantly for 7 months and more bombs were dropped on Laos in this time than the total amount of bombs used by all sides in WW2. This means ...