Here was the party scene in Vang Vieng - debauched, drunken, and pasty-white.
The most common way to experience Vang Vieng is to rent a tube, get driven up river, and float down through a veritable Scylla and Charybdis of bars blasting Akon and Lady GaGa.
The bars reel you in by tossing you a rope, and ply you with free shots of Lao rice whisky in hopes that you will purchase a bucket of vodka/redbull. After you're lubricated, you can jump off insanely tall platforms or ziplines operated by 9-year-old local boys while sober onlookers like me pray that the river is deep enough where you land.
We stayed in the party area for 30 min, enough to take an obligatory free shot, and escaped via bicycle for calmer waters.
6km of riding brought us to Blue Lagoon, straight out of Avatar.
And we made friends on the way.
MN
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