Laos

Laos

Scenery from a fairy-tale with the beautiful mountains that darted up in to the sky. The most picture perfect place we had been to yet, so rural and peaceful and un disturbed in some parts with next to no people speaking English but in other parts it is over run with teenage tourists and is full of western people because of the party scene.

Arrival

leaving at 6am when you had 20 minutes sleep I would say was a mission especially when you are on a small bus with no space, no air-conditioning, at 40 degrees, for 6 hours. We approached the Laos boarder and I got stopped because the guy didn't believe it was me in my passport picture (i was actually very flattered because I look rough in that picture) The first night we stayed in a quaint little village that looked like an old western movie.


Buda Park


We visited a Buda park with many Buda statues.

Vien Tieme

We had a Laos style massage which felt like I paid for a small woman to beat me in pajamas





Vang Vieng




Vang Vieng is a the party capital of Viet Nam. It is very westernized town full of tubing memorabilia and hang over restaurants (restaurants with lie down chairs selling burgers and playing friends or family guy in the background) I bought a Gangster hat and everyone started calling me Brittany.




Black Out

Our tour group went to a restaurant we ate, we laughed and we played games while a thunderstorm was brewing we watched tables fly over and watched as the rain drowned the pavements. Then suddenly the lights went out and the whole street was black. We played Chinese whispers and chatted by candle light then me, Ellie and Bean decided to dance in the rain, getting soaked before heading to Q bar for free buckets and our first night out.

Q bar was still pitch black for while but as soon as the music started I was first up there with my rude boy had and my gangster moves. we pretty much danced until closing. Afterward we headed to bucket bar, which was an outside club with stages, hammocks and strobe lights pattering the crowd. I kept dancing even though I was shattered from previously dancing for four hours but I did not stop.


Kayaking

It was breath taking the mountains piercing the sky with green reflections shadowing the water, everywhere looked so lush and natural. Me and Ellie rode together and sped ahead of everyone else only having a couple of mishaps riding in to the river side. It was a 10km ride when we got to 6km we stopped off to look at the zip wires and rope swings, they looked so dangerous seeing as we had just kayaked past where you would land it felt pretty shallow to be taking that big of a drop. We headed off again and after a couple of Km we fell off our boats and bobbed in our life jackets over to the water buffaloes.

Tubing

We took a tuk tuk to the river where there were wooden bars on stilts. It was the river we had previously been Kayaking down but there was about 20 bars on either side for about 2 miles all blaring out different music. We all fell into the water and as soon as a bar lassoed you in you had to buy a bucket from their bar. So it was basically a bar crawl but you swam to each bar or floated in your tube.

We got lassoed into Q bar and got spray painted, then played flip cup, danced while seeing people flying off the rope swings (the rope swings were as tall as a house and so not safe, you had ten year olds setting up them, so I just couldn't trust them) We headed down the river again. In some parts the current was really strong and the water shallow so you got dragged across the stones also when you are tipsy you don't realise how much it hurts. In the morning I was covered in bruises.

The tubing experience took us until 7:00pm where we ended up at the end of the river where we danced a lot more, also sat and chatted to people there and watched drunks attempt the death slide. A 50 ft slide that people had died on the previous year before they even hit the water.

The night out

everyone headed out from tubing straight to the clubs/ bars you had to cross a rope bridge to get to this one outside club where we spent most of the night. We chatted, we Danced until our feet where soar, then hung out in the hammocks. We where out till the early hours I wasn't as intoxicated as Ellie and Bean so I didn't head to the pub instead headed back with a few of the girls.The Scenery

We had an 8-hour bus ride where the scenery was breath taking. Mountainous and magical. We stopped off at a few places to admire the incredible views.


My Favourite day

A day of elephants, bears and waterfalls! We stared the day going to an elephant sanctuary. There was about 10 elephants standing in a row, we got to stroke them (they felt like a hairy stone) and took pictures. The place was beautiful with a missive river and mountains against a bright blue sky.

The ride was awesome and all the elephants looked so happy. We sat on what looked like a part bench attached to the elephants back with a stick to stop us from sliding off. Every step felt like we were going to fall. We rode through the river I felt to Surreal . When we got off them we got to feed them bananas and read their stories about how they were rescued.




Water falls

Incredible! I've never seen such baby blue water in such a natural setting. I was surrounded by waterfalls and dark grey rocks. We swam in the freezing pools of fresh water and flung ourselves from the rope swing.

We headed to the other smaller pools equally as beautiful and to the big waterfall. It was easily one of my favourite places in the world.

























The Monks

We woke at 5:30 am to watch the monks get their food for the day. their were so many rude tourists shoving their cameras in their faces being so disrespectful. We watched as the local people filled their bowls with rice. the headed off on our journey.The slow boat

A boat that got us back to Thailand beautiful scenery with long deep sleeps and a lot of time to think.