Evening bugs
After a stressful wait for the bus to Vang Vieng, we were finally collected from our hostel and boarded another creepy local bus. We both were given odd and probably dangerous fold up seats right next to the driver, who drove like a crazy person and loved to use his horn. There were a few occasions where he almost tipped the bus over!
we stumbled cross a nice hotel where we bartered the price to around £5 a night! we had a big balcony, huge double bed and a single bed.
Vang Vieng is a very relaxed, smallish town in keeping with the lurking culture of laotions. There are some nice bars which we enjoyed on our 1st night. on this night we were persuaded to cycle the 7km to the blue lagoon by someone who claimed it was a "lovely ride". it was in fact a treacherous journey, along very bumpy roads in the searing heat. holly also sustained an injury en route which started out as a small cut but became very infected later on.
The blue lagoon itself was very pretty and we enjoyed swimming and sunbathing here. we did however treat ourselves to a tuk tuk home.
During our time in VV, steph also sustained a nasty injury on a motorbike, resulting in an ugly burn which also got infected.
On our 3rd night we had a brainwave to sublet our single bed to a friend from our first night, thus saving even more money, however he decided to inform the hotel of our scheming nipping that plan in the bud :(
we had another night out at the only club in town and somehow ended up having a gathering in our room (404). All the bars and club shut really early here much to our annoyance. A french lady complained to us about the noise even though it was only 1am and we werent being loud! she then preceded to inform reception there was a pa rty in 404.
We arranged to go tubing the next day with our new friends which was really fun however due to a government crackdown only about 3 bars were still open on the river, thus we bought our own alcohol. A bottle of vodka here cost about £1 which was very beneficial to our money saving.
we both fell out of our tubes at various points, getting more injuries. the river was quite shallow at some points and we had to lift up our bums!
Our next stop is Luang Prabang in north laos which requires an overnight bus.
After a stressful wait for the bus to Vang Vieng, we were finally collected from our hostel and boarded another creepy local bus. We both were given odd and probably dangerous fold up seats right next to the driver, who drove like a crazy person and loved to use his horn. There were a few occasions where he almost tipped the bus over!
we stumbled cross a nice hotel where we bartered the price to around £5 a night! we had a big balcony, huge double bed and a single bed.
Vang Vieng is a very relaxed, smallish town in keeping with the lurking culture of laotions. There are some nice bars which we enjoyed on our 1st night. on this night we were persuaded to cycle the 7km to the blue lagoon by someone who claimed it was a "lovely ride". it was in fact a treacherous journey, along very bumpy roads in the searing heat. holly also sustained an injury en route which started out as a small cut but became very infected later on.
The blue lagoon itself was very pretty and we enjoyed swimming and sunbathing here. we did however treat ourselves to a tuk tuk home.
During our time in VV, steph also sustained a nasty injury on a motorbike, resulting in an ugly burn which also got infected.
On our 3rd night we had a brainwave to sublet our single bed to a friend from our first night, thus saving even more money, however he decided to inform the hotel of our scheming nipping that plan in the bud :(
we had another night out at the only club in town and somehow ended up having a gathering in our room (404). All the bars and club shut really early here much to our annoyance. A french lady complained to us about the noise even though it was only 1am and we werent being loud! she then preceded to inform reception there was a pa rty in 404.
We arranged to go tubing the next day with our new friends which was really fun however due to a government crackdown only about 3 bars were still open on the river, thus we bought our own alcohol. A bottle of vodka here cost about £1 which was very beneficial to our money saving.
we both fell out of our tubes at various points, getting more injuries. the river was quite shallow at some points and we had to lift up our bums!
Our next stop is Luang Prabang in north laos which requires an overnight bus.
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