Vang Vieng Stories


Laos, Chiang Mai, Pai and invasions of Canadians

these past 2 weeks have been some of the best of my life. My week started out taking a 12 hour train ride to Vientiane, Laos. From there it took 1 tuktuk ride, a 4 hour van ride, and then I finally arrived in VENG VIANG!!! Veng viang is a very unique place in a valley in Laos. It has one loooonnnnngggg river running through it, which is where all the ac...


Mens erger je niet!

Good evening you all, You know sometimes conversations can be so spellbinding that you have to hold yourself down as to not to start jumping up and down with your anxious finger in the air. I had a talk like that yesterday with this German guy. We were talking about how traveling alone is such an emotional roller coaster ride. Not an uncommon subject...


In the Tubing, as they say

Vang Vieng isn't the most cultural of places in Laos, there are a few cave temples (bigger than the one we saw in Kanchanaburi but not as exciting) but other than that it's tourists and bars - bars that play Friends, Simpsons and Family Guy all day every day no less! The main draw of Vang Vieng is an activity called tubing and it is excellent fun! Yo...


Vang Vieng

Vang Vieng was cold...... at least it was at night. The days were hot but we had to wear a jumper at night! We haven't had to do that before and were smugly avoiding the winter back home. We were told that we had to go to Vang Vieng to go ride a large inner tube down the river by some other travellers but nothing else. So we went. On the day w...