This place is cool. There is no other way to say it. It is mostly tourists, but here is the thing. IT IS ALL BACKPACKERS. There are no vacationers slappong on sunscreen and paying for service. Everywhere is cheap and everyone is freindly and ready to lend a helping hand. The first day we got there, we avoided the bridge toll by hiking across the shallow river with packs and all. We got to our place, went and checked out a cool cave and water hole and alled it a day.
Day 2- We rented 110cc motorbikes. I had not helmet, no insurance, and abolutely no idea what I was doing. That made it all the more fun. We cruised through the mountians at about 70 km/h(about 45 mph). Vang Vieng had these incredible peaks stick stright up out of the ground. They were beautiful
Day 3- This day was just out of contrl from the start. There is a river you can float down. It has a lot of bars, but even better, it has huge rope swings and zip lines the whole way down. Of course I managed to flopp from about 15 feet in the air leaving my whole torso screaming red for about an hour. Make sure to look at the videos from this section.More PicturesVideo 1
Video 2 - This landing hurt!
