Drinking From The Ganges

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I took an eight hour bus ride from Vang Vieng to Luang Prabang…..although the people who booked the bus tickets said ‘it only takes six hours,’ don’t believe them!  The roads from Vang Vieng to Luang Prabang are not paved, are rough and curvy…..as a result, many, many people throughout the journey had to run to the toilet on the bus because they were sick from the bus ride!  However, once you reach Luang Prabang you have arrived in a beautiful, beautiful city with mountains in the background and the Mekong river sitting calmly beside the french influenced architecture in the city center. [read on]

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Vang Vieng, Laos is a small, small town of about thirty-thousand.....but has a big, big reputation for the best tubing experience, EVER! Drunken debauchery is a side effect of tubing in Vang Vieng, it cannot be avoided, if you want the 'true' ... [Continue reading this entry]

Imagine a country where all the retirees go to retire in their 'golden years'.  A country who's capital city (Vientiane) only has a population of about two-hundred thousand (the largest populated city in Laos).  A country that is landlocked by Thailand and Vietnam, but ... [Continue reading this entry]