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Brief Stop at Van Vieng
The town of Vang Vieng seems to Be most popular due to its fame for tubing down river stopping at bars on the way and smoking wacky baccy. Due to the large number of serious accidents and people losing their lives (one a month!) the government have closed all of the bars along the stretch,…
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19th, 20th Oct – Vientiane
We arrived in the evening and began our search for a guest house, to our horror the prices were pretty much double that of the previous places for much less! We ended up with a prison cell room with shared bathroom, the room just fitted a small double bed and the walls were paper thin.…
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Leafy Luang Prabang
On our first day in Luang Prabang, after breakfast and a walk around, we booked a afternoon trip to visit a local waterfall. It was quite beautiful and we eventually found our way to the main part after stopping to swim in the green blue milky pools beneath the multitude of cascades that presented themselves…
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18th Oct – Vang Vieng
This morning we headed for Vang Vieng by bus, it was a very slow and long journey as the roads in Loas aren’t very good. We kept ourselves busy by eating, reading and sleeping. We started the journey at 9 and got to Vang Vieng by 6ish, we had to take a tuk tuk from…
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15th – 18th Oct – Luang Prabang
It didn’t take long to find a guest house as there are many near where the slow boat docks, we found a reasonable priced one and soon headed out for food. We found the night market and food market and ate a good all you can eat buffet style stall that cost under £1, meat…