That time I got peed on and was woken up by my hostel roomates doin it

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I knew that Laos was a poor country like Cambodia so I was expecting shacks and dirt roads. So I was very surprised when I got out of the airport in Luang Prabang. The streets were paved and clean and the houses were pretty! It did not look like a poor country at all! I was expecting it to look as underdeveloped as Cambodia but it exceeded all my expectations.I also expected it to be flat like Siem Reap because the country is landlocked but they had beautiful mountains!My favorite place here was Kuang Si falls. I just walked down the main road and saw a few tourists talking to a tuk tuk driver and I asked if I could tag along and we can split the cost. The guys I went to the falls with stopped to smoke weed halfway through the hike up to the top of the mountain where the falls started. They offered and I declined 'coz I don't smoke weed or anything really. So I went on my way to explore by myself. The water had such beautiful colors. The biggest falls we're actually several falls clumped together it looked unreal! Definitely the prettiest falls I've seen so far. I met some interesting people in church. There were other tourists in church visiting from the States. The church was a lot harder to find than I expected. None of the tuktuk drivers knew where it was. Luckily I met a Laotian guy in church in the Philippines so I messaged him on Facebook and he had the local pastor meet me near the church. I wouldn't have found it otherwise because Christian churches there are not allowed to advertise. No signs, not even a cross to mark the church. One of the local guys took us visitors to Mt. Phou Si after church. Apparently it's free after sunset. Always good to have a local with you. I planned to stay 4 days but there wasn't much to do that was interesting for me. I didn't want to see the temples because after the Angkor temples all other temples seemed amateurish. So I left on day three which I'd regret later.A friend of mine posted a photo of the mountains of Vang Vieng and I thought it was so beautiful so I had to go there. I didn't do much research for my trip so I had no idea that it was a notorious party town. The mountains sure we're pretty but the town wasn't. I felt uneasy and knew I had to leave earlier than I originally planned. <br style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: 'Roboto Slab', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: none; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #fafafa;" />I woke up early the next morning when I felt warm water pouring on my right foot. So I called out "Yo I think your water spilled on me". It was dark so I couldn't see what was happening. Turns out my Australian roommate was so drunk he doesn't know where he was. He peed on me. He immediately scuttled out of the room when he heard me. It was my other roommates who told me he must have peed on me.I had to get out of that hostel immediately so I transferred to another one. The next hostel had no airconditioning but I had a room to myself with a private bathroom so it was perfect. I made plans the previous night with a Canadian girl I first met in Luang Prabang then saw on the street the day I arrived.<br style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: 'Roboto Slab', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: none; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #fafafa;" />We got on the same tuktuk with four British men and five Swiss. The Swiss so spoke German and kept mostly to themselves so Canada and I hung out with the Brits. It was just the usual scene there. Float and stop at a bar to get drunk. Float to the next bar and so on. I don't really drink so I only had a couple of beers to socialize. They asked me to try the happy balloons which I suspected was a narcotic which I don't do. But at that moment I said yes. I'm usually impenetrable by peer pressure but I wasn't that day. Anyway I did some research after and it turns out it was just laughing gas which gives you a ten second high. I didn't even feel any different so I must have done it wrong. It was a rather sad affair watching people being stupid and me pretending to have fun. But at least I thought it was amusing how stupid people looked trying to live up to the expectations of getting wild in Vang Vieng.After the last bar we floated back to town. We got separated by the river and I ended up with one of the Brits until it was pitch black. We saw a lot of fire flies which Ian has never seen before and I was excited to see again. We had to get back to town before 8pm or we lose our deposit. I thought we wouldn't make it back on time so we had to run to make it back on time to get our deposit which I really didn't want to lose.

I left the next day for Vientiane because I wanted to leave that place as soon as possible. I just wanted to get that tubing thing over with before I left because that was the one thing to do there.

I don't think Vientiane would qualify as a city although it is the capital of Laos. There wasn't a single skyscraper and the airport has three gates. I ended up spending five days there because I left Luang Prabang and Vientiane much sooner than planned. But there wasn't much to do in Vientiane. You can see the entire city in two days. One if you do it the whole day. It was a nice place though. Still much cleaner than what I was expecting.

I woke up one morning at 4am because the bed was shaking and I heard moaning. My roomates were having sex in the top bunk and trying to be quiet to no avail. I still managed to sleep and later that morning one of my other roomates ask top bunk roomate "How was the sex?" then she said "I thought you guys were asleep!" I wanted to say I was asleep I wasn't in a coma.

I saw the controversial begpackers in Vientiane. They were busking and selling photos that they took in their trips. I heard one saying he's trying to raise money to extend his visa. Personally, I don't think that's a responsible think to do here in Southeast Asia where people have way less money than those Europeans who were doing that. Sure it's fine to do that in the States and Europe but please not here.

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Comments

[Ake Och Emma]

Great photo
Good picture you have there. Some day I have to go to Laos too. I have heard many people speak well of that country. /Ake

[Josevich]

Thanks Ake!
Yeah it's a pretty country