Vang vieng is truly a crazy place to be, and home of what is probably the worlds most controversial tourist activity – tubing.

The owner of our guest house invited us to his cousins wedding. They’re quite a lot like English weddings, with loads of food & drinks. We learned the Laos dance (make steps in a square, no movement of hips).

Yesterday was tubing – floating down the river in a giant inner tube, stopping at bars along the way. The weather wasn’t the best & we set off late, so ended up down the river in the dark. Seriously fun though.

Today 6 of us are heading down south to 4,000 Islands in the Mekong river. It’s 20 hours on the bus. First off we go to Vientiane, then a sleeper bus onward. After that Cambodia 🙂

Beautiful bus ride

Arrived in Luang Prabang yesterday afternoon. First impressions are good, but it’s hard to get your head in to the currency. There’s 13,000 to the £ so everything seems expensive at first.

There’s a good night market & some really cool bars. Everything shuts at 11.30 except for an out of town bowling alley, so we ended up there last night.