Mar 1, 2009

Vang Vieng, Laos

So...... this place is wicked and I am staying another day! I bought my bus ticket for tomorrow so I HAVE to leave...but seriously, it would be SO easy to stick around here.


"Tubing" was a trip! To be honest, we didnt even bother renting the tubes....the bars on the river are so close to one another we just swam in between them in the current :) Each bar is pouring free whiskey shots, playing wicked music, everyone is lying around in bikinis and surf shorts on the docks, people are painting you with body paint and markers and there are these 30 foot trapez swings you can swing into the water with...awesome! One bar has a giant mud pit, another has a zipline into the water, another has a giant waterslide....and everyone is partying, wet and totally wasted. its unreal.
Yesterday went rock climbing all day to this amazing spot...no one else was there...was just myself, this guy Chris from germany and our guide, Apple. We climbed until Chris gave up and I couldnt bend my fingers anymore...I could even open my water that night! Im so sore this morning but totally worth it! It was such a beautiful spot...tree roots coming down through the rocks, leaves showering down in the breeze...there were even goats jumping around the rocks!


Went back to bar island and spun fire poi at the Sunset Bar, aka "canadian bar' ...since everyone that works there is canadian LOL (from calgary). Jason, the owner, spins fire too and we were showing each other tricks. He invited me to come with his staff to promote sunset bar on the river today...spinning poi and giving out free whiskey shots! so its another day of Tiger whiskey, trapez, sunning on the docks and dancing! :) Tough life eh? (Oh man, i gotta get outta here...this place is trouble)

Heading to vientienne tomorrow, then overnight to Bangkok and flying to phuket....then taking a bus to khoa lak and hopping on a liveaboard dive boat (the Dolphin Queen) for 4 nights and 4 days to the Similan islands. So excited! Had the best diving of my life last time I was in thailand...swimming with sharks, massive manta rays.... and now 14 dives in prime whale shark season!

xoxo
Anna