What do you do after spending over 24 hours on various busses, get yourself a tractor inner tube and head for the river. It's Vang Vien and it's tubing!

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With all the hype this place had been getting from other party going travellers our expectations were pretty high, so much so that when we got of the night bus at Vientiane we chartered a mini bus straight for the place, which is about 5 hours north down the bumpiest, shockingly maintained roads we have seen. Once there a quick change later, some lunch and we were on a tuk tuk bound for the start of the tubing section of river, tubes stepped precariously to the roof. If you can imagine a strip of bars on a Saturday night combined with a river set in beautiful jungle countryside with a water park attached then your pretty much there. Two days later and two afternoons tubing interspersed with numerous Friends episodes we were ready to take a break. Next stop Luang Prebang

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