Partytown Vang Vieng

A few years back when someone said opium, they would say Laos. Especially vang vieng. Several years back this small one street town was overrun by backpackers our age. What they did here was as followed: get in a tube (the inside of a tractor band) and flow down the river while hopping from bar to bar smoking opium and getting totally wasted. After to many Australians and English died (who else?) the government destroyed the opium bars. But still, this is the party town of Laos.

As we had to wait 4 days for our Visa (for Vietnam) we decided to head to this nearby town and see what all the fuzz was about. So we as well would go tubing and drink a beer or two(ish). Arriving at the first bar was like arriving at the zoo. Everyone was already drunk, playing drinking games or doing other things. Well, we had some time to catch up and started with the first beer. We could only imagine how it has been a couple years ago but today it's still crazy. A guy wearing a my little pony shirt flossing a condom through his nose and mouth. Needless to say, a diffrent crowd from what we experienced in the last few months. Tubing from bar to bar and from beer to beers was actually fun and beautiful. It reminds us of Guilin/yangshuo in China. And well beer Lao is definitely the best beer in Asia! The Party crowd was a bit young though (yes, even here you start to feel old!) Shit we are getting old!!! Nevertheless a blast. 

Furthermore, Laos is so laid back! A perfect holiday destination I'd say. Hammocks next to river and at nearly all the hotels.  A Wide variety of food and cafe's. We did not expect this to be so nice. Once again, not everything on the internet is true, better expierence it yourself!