With Joel feeling a bit worse for wear, we headed off to the river at 11am to start our day of tubing. It takes roughly 3 hours to float downstream in your inflatable inner tube, but with all the bars on the way, we managed to make our trip last a good 7 hours. Considering we had been in the water less than 5 minutes before stopping at our first bar (much to Joel's disgust) we knew how this day was heading. My favourite bar was the Slingshot bar, where you had a ...

A 3 hour bus drive took us to Vieng Vang & quite possibly the time of our lives. We arrived a bit too late to do the tubing that day, but promised ourselves that we would definitely do it tomorrow. So instead we hired some bicycles & went on a 14km round trip to Poukham Caves & blue lagoon. One very steep climb up some rocks, with some shoddy makeshift handrails, we made it into the cave system. But even with our best Indiana Jones impressions, the la...