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Published: February 27th 2006
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Jess on the massive swing
It was fucking huge this thing - quality!!! :o) Yet another shite bus trip later we were dumped at some guesthouse where the driver was clearly on commission and trekking up the road to find a bit of life and a decent place to stay. I ended up going for Malany Guesthouse right in the middle of Khao San Road (that sounds familiar dunnit?! lol), coz it was nice enough and only $5 a night so by 7pm I was all sorted and on my way for scran and a few beers. On my way round I bumped into 3 London lads - Pete, Chris and Jess so went on the piss with them. We met 2 Laos birds and a really camp lad called Nicky around town who took us to a Laos disco but the music was that bad that I had to leave after only one beer. I have officially written off all SE Asian music by now coz it's all pop tunes about a broken heart and it's ALL fucking dirge! I didn't have a clue where to go after we left that place but them three knew a quality bar down on the river called Island Cafe where you could sit on little platforms over
Jess and Pete on our bad-ass peds
They went though to be fair and you can't complain for 4 quid a day eh? the river with your feet in the water smoking spliffs and drinking beer till 5am - definitely my sort of place!
We decided that night to go tubing the next day so 11am we were up and about eating a fry up then heading straight down to the tube rental place to get things on the go. Tubes cst $3.50 for the full day and that includes the tuk tuk ride to the start of the main bit of the river about 2km out of town so can't complain. The river's set up with bars every few hundred yards and if you wanna stop at one you just give the guy a shout and he'll pull you in with a stick, the added bonus is that at each of these bars there's a huge jump, rope swing or zip line so you stop at pretty much all of them to try them out. The best one was a huge rope swing that must've been at least 10 metres high at the bit you jump off, it scares the shit out of you when you're stood on the edge about to jump off but it's fooking mint when you do go!
Me and Som on the buckets
Think this was my last night there actually, didn't get as wasted as usual thankfully otherwise I never woulda made the bus on time! We were well stacked with joints for on the way so by the time we got to the end we were well on our way and thoroughly prunified from spending an entire day in the water! lol. That night when we were eating tea we noticed that the place we were eating at also had a 'special' menu so we decided to sample a few of the local specialities, I don't remember a lot more after that. Ha ha. I was in pretty much the same state when I woke up and all but I could still just about operate so I got by and by the time United and Liverpool came on I was back on the Beer Lao once again, not that it made it any better losing to the bloody scousers - yet another trophy we won't be winning this season! lol.
All the restaurants in Vang Vieng seemed to constantly be playing DVD's of various sit-coms and stuff, the most common one being Friends (fuck that for a game of soldiers!), but thankfully there was a Simpsons one so we got breakfast there next morning and decided to hire some scooters out again. The place we
Sunset on the bus to Vang Vieng
Probably shoulda airbrushed the powerlines out first eh? lol got them from charged us $6 for 24 hours after a bit of haggling so not bad. The speedo actually worked on this one so we went out to see how fast we could go, the answer being 95kmh flat out in shorts and t-shirt with no helmet on - safe as fook! There wasn't really a lot to see out of town so we drove to the bar on the river with the massive swing for a beer then headed back coz it was dark by then. The night time was spent eating mushies but they weren't a patch on the ones on Koh Phangan so wasn't best pleased. We spent the entire day riding round on the peds but still couldn't find many places to see so we handed them back at 4pm and got our passports back. This was the London lads last day so me and Pete went down to Island Cafe to get wasted. I got chatting to Som, the manager there while I was waiting for Pete and he started dishing out buckets of Tiger whiskey and coke for me and him for free - good man! We were drinking everything from flaming Sambuka
The mountains outta town
Just thought this looked nice so added it anyway out of massive metal spoons to some dodgy aniseed based drink called Pastis and it was quality! Met a lad called Sam who used to go to Manchester Uni and he was buzzing off my accent plus I met a London couple called paul and Cat too so even after Pete got off I still had plenty of people to get pissed with so didn't get home till 6am (first time in a long time that it's been going light when I've been getting home, what's going on?!).
I was supposed to be going tubing with them two at 9am but didn't wake up will 1:30pm so not a chance! Got a few CD's copied for Som (he was loving 2 Many DJ's Two the night before), then got back on the pop again to get rid of the nasty hangover. Met a Laos bloke called Jackie down there who seemed nice enough to begin with but somehow we got chatting about Israeli's and how much he hated then - wtf?! Found out off Som after he left that he'd battered 6 of them in just the last few weeks, nice bloke eh? The rest of the day I just
Me and Pete on the last night
Think he was a bit spannered by then, it wasn't long after this pic that he was running round in circles shouting random shit at passers by - kids eh?! lol sat with Som drinking buckets and smoking lots of weed till eventually I had to leave at 11pm coz of the bus to Luang Prabang the next morning so I thanked the lad for sorting us out with so many free drinks and went on my way. Getting up next morning was easy enough then I was on my way to Luang Prabang...
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pete
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good imes in vangvien
wher do i start,that was a quality place,def cracked sum good joke wid u dannyboy.dont remember that last nite at all,did i have the flamin shots and watever else?either way was a wa 2 go ou in syle!hpe u had fun,mayb see u in the thai islands!laters mate.