Vang Vieng

We got up at about 830, Bec feeling fairly seedy. Went to get our tubes for our 2nd tube ride down the river, we were number 3&4 for the day! So we were pretty much first ones, the ride down was so calm, there was hardly anyone on the river with only some locals fishing and collecting seaweed along the way, it was beautiful and we were both sad to leave the river at the end. Next we quickly had some breakfast and then headed to our pick up for the bus to Luang Prabang, which ended up being a tuk tuk to the bus station and then our comfy mini bus for the next 6 or so hours. I thought the ride wasn’t too bad, its meant to be hair raising as you are riding on a cliff edge most of the way but I didn’t find it too bad till the very end despite the driver being fairly psycho (really he was) at the start a few people over took him and then about an hour or so in it was almost as if he snapped and after being over taken by another mini van he chased them down and got back in front! He was taking right angle turns driving in the wrong lane! Despite this the scenery was amazing amongst the mountains. We got to Luang Prabang at about 730 after about 30 minutes of small straight bumpy roads at about 90-100k (that’s when I was scared) and we checked into our hotel. We quickly headed out and had some dinner, booked in for a tour tomorrow and then had a wonder around town searching for the night market, we eventually found it and were both surprised to see it was huge and had fairly decent things to buy. After that we headed back home for some sleep, as we have another early start tomorrow.