Laos: Vang Vieng (Day 126-127)

Our bungalow alone between 3 ponds
and away from the yunkies...

7 hours bus ride to get to Vang Vieng on one of the most curvy road we have been so far... But again beautiful landscape. I should have talked about transportation in Laos before as it is slightly different than in other countries. You don´t travel at night as the road are quite curvy and dangerous and drivers are commonly  insane! We saw so many accidents on the road and experienced (see next post) the worth bus trip of our life. One good thing about not travelling during the night, is that we could enjoy the scenery which is not to be missed when travelling in North Laos. The only night ride we chose was for the 14h to go down from Ventiane (capital city - see later post) to the Boloven Plateau in a sleeping bus (with double beds!!). Let´s talk briefly about Vang Vieng, famous for its Tubing where young  teenagers from all over the world comes to get drunk in the river and watch friends on TV in one of the numerous bars of the town. I won´t go into details about the touristy side of Vang Vieng as it is chocking (girls in Bikinis... while the Lao culture is quite preservative in that manner) but will talk about what we enjoyed of our day (1 only) on the other side of the river where Laos culture and landscape can be found. We loved our lonely very basic bungalow for the 2 nights and our 14 kms walk to the Blue Lagoon... We nearly got ripped off twice... Ripped off is a strong word as it only involved 10,000 Kip but they still tried to get us in the so-called Blue Lagoon twice along the way which was obviously further from what we read... Cheeky those ones! We finally made it and enjoyed our afternoon in the Pakhoum Cave and swimming in the Lagoon. 

Just beautiful...

The Blue Lagoon at the Pakhoum Cave