Laos
Arrived in Laos after the marathon journey, never been so pleased to see dry land! Luang Prabang was a really nice little town, still has the french influence in the buildings and the food it sells – freshly baked french baguettes and nice cofee, was in heaven! The night market was also very good so we stayed for a few days, hired a bike and went cycling one of the days which was good, got one of the boat men to give us a lift over the river and attached our bikes onto the boat roof!
Next stop after that was Vien Viang. This place was even better!! The bars/restaurants had reclining chairs – think Ikea’s slouching sofas on a wooden raised platform with tables in the middle!! All of them had a ‘special’ page had written at the back of their menu’s, this consisted of food and drink containing magic mushrooms – happy, very happy and ecstatic pizzas, magic milkshakes, and opium tea to name a few! The main event in this place though was the tubing, this involved sitting on an inflatable tube and floating down the river, sounds wierd but was very relaxing. On the way down you float past bars serving the Beer Lao of course – all the way down the river you have people shouting ‘Beer Lao, Beer Lao’ and if you wave to them they will pull you over using a long wooden stick and give you a beer!! We stopped at one of the bars, I managed to get out of my tube and onto the side just in time to see Miller float past, couldn’t believe he missed a Beer Lao stop! Luckily he managed to get over to the bank a bit further down and climb up the bank!! At the end though both of us managed to float past the end stop and had to chuck ourselves into the river and swim over to the bank, amused the people sat on the bank watching us!
The time had come for Miller to remove his stiches, he managed to do it ok after several attempts but had to lie down afterwards!! Luckily there wasn’t much of a mark left, think he may have been a little dissapointed!
Next stop after Vien Viang was Vientiane, the capital of Laos. Not such a great place, one to avoid in the future. We left as soon as we could and got ourselves to the Freindship bridge to cross back over to Thailand. Sadly we have had to cut out Vietnam, not enough time to fit it all in. Will be a future trip back I think. Overall Laos was a nice surprise, would recommend it to anyone thinking of going, the Beer Laos is definately one to try!!
written by Amanda
Amanda on Vien Viang a few months later: ” Loas was beautiful, I just remember staying in a shitty guesthouse with a smelly bathroom, you (Miller) taking out your stiches, tubing being a bit cold, a mini cash crsis, and we crashed the kayak pn the first corner”. Yeah we enjoyed Loas.
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