Got picked up early from the guesthouse at 8.40am...looked promising, how wrong we were! It sould have taken 5 hours, it took 7! Amazing scenery though so that compensated. Vang Vieng is a really small town and tourists seem to all go there for one thing...tubing! (going tomorrow). Apparently, this is a pub crawl with a twist...each pub is located on the riverside and you get from one pub to the next on an inflated rubber ring...sounds mental, we'll see! We met some people on our bus, Laura and Hannah and Sinead and Malacky, we all stayed at the same guesthouse, cost 50,000 kip per room (4 quid). Same same but different (SE Asia saying) places we've stayed. Bed bug sheet out for this one and sleeping bag liner! Had a wander round, bite to eat,
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