vang vieng

The journey from luang prabang wasn't too bad despite having to stop for a blocked road which was cleared surprisingly quickly and arriving 3 hours late. But that's south east asia!
We found a hostel quite quickly and the owner was from liverpool. We went out for food and disappointingly it took two hours to arrive and wasn't even that good. Obviously it is great to go out with a good group of people but sometimes it makes finding somehwere to eat tricky because everyone wants something different or isn't into the cheaper street food. We still had a fun time though!

The next day we all decided to go tubing, which is a big thing in vang vieng. You basically hire a big wheel inner tube for the day and get driven to the river where you start tubing. There are four bars along the river and as you float down Laos guys will throw a rope with a water bottle attached that you hold on to and they pull you in to the river bank. You then climb up to the bar, play volleyball, table tennis or table football and when you have had enough you get back on your tube and float down to the next one.
Once you have reached the last bar you have to start making your way down the rest of the river into the centre of town. It started to get quite cold as we were sat in our tubes so we got a tuk tuk back. We had to be back by 6pm to get the full deposit and it was funny seeing tubers running down the road at 5 to to make sure they got their $6 back.

It was a great fun day and I was annoyed I couldn't take my camera because the scenery was beautiful.

Yesterday we all got in a tuk tuk and went to the blue lagoon. It is a section of the river that has been cornered off for visitors to swim and hang out. There was also a cave which you were allowed to go into. You had to have a torch though so i was lucky I had one in my bag. It was quite spooky exploring a cave that had not been set up with lights. The cave was huge and we spent a good 40 mins walking through it.  
We made it back in time for the sunset which was stunning.

Avocado and banana shake, delicious!

The biggest siper I have ever seen!