Stepping out of the Groove: Final post from Vang Vieng

We are just leaving Laos. My favorite things were going tubing down the river & kayaking. My dad got a blister from the paddle. When we were tubing, a bunch of Brits were smoking cigarettes. We wanted to splash them, but didn't have a paddle to use. Sometimes while we were tubing, we would get marooned on the shallow rocks. It is the dry season here in Laos.

Rock

As you heard from Rock, we are leaving Laos today :(. I think that it is the best country so far! As if traveling for 30 hours isn't bad enough, I (Mackenzie) have a cold. It's just a bad day(s) for me I guess. Well anyways, I really liked Vang Vieng (even though I liked Luang Prabang much better). We did all the normal stuff that all of the young people do. In fact, you can't walk a meter without seeing someone in their twenties! They are mostly Brits and most of them smoke and drink when they do all of the activities and it definitely gets on my nerves. Our first night, some of them were getting out of the river from tubing and they were completely wasted! What a great warm welcoming, Vang Vieng!

Kenzi

As you heard from Rock and Mackenzie, we are leaving Laos today! I think it is also the best country so far!! Tubing and kayaking was GREAT! You could just relax while the river carried you. In kayaking, well it is kayaking! You paddle for like 2 hrs. For us they did door to door service because we were staying on the river! We went bike riding to Lusi cave and went caving! The cave was like 500 meters in! We could have waded through filthy water to get to a lagoon, but that was not what we wanted to do. When we were riding motor scooters, I learned the hard way there is a wrong way to get off the scooter: exhaust pipe side! Unfortunately, I got a major burn! It was not a pretty sight! Bye Vang Vieng!

Audrey