"Vang Vieng, Laos" Paulandnic's photos about Vang Vieng, Lao Peoples Dem Rep

A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Vang Vieng, Lao Peoples Dem Rep by TravelPod blogger Paulandnic titled "Vang Vieng, Laos" Paulandnic's travel blog entry: "We left early doors to get to the southern bus staion to catch the early morning public bus (was full of backpackers) to Van Vieng. On the way we met a nice local lad who gave us loads of boiled sweetcorn for our journey! We wound around the mountains with once again gorgeous views as far as we could see. 6 hours later we landed in Vang Vieng, a strange little town, with nothing of real significance and loads of restaurnats, travel agencies and bars showing Friends on repeat...brilliant! That night met up with Michael, Rachel, Dan & Hayley that night for a meal and some beers. Most people stop in Vang Vieng to go tubing (floating down the river in a tube stopping at lots of bars and rope-swinging into the water), but we decided against it and went for a walk instead. In the mid-day heat we set off in search of Tham Phu Kham cave with a Buddha statue inside it. After an hour and a half we found it and we were knackered and really hot. Nic fell over (again) on her way into the cave following our young tour guide who was jumping bare foot everywhere while we tenatively followed him with the torches he lent us. Inside was a huge gold buddha statue with tunnels going off everywhere, but we couldn't go down them. Once we got back we showered and decided to go drinking before meeting up with Michael ...



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