Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Vang Vieng Tubing



Got up this morning with my right ear blocked up completely....We got some breakfast soakage before we hit the tubing. We arrived at the Nam Song and hit the first bar, free shots and dutch courage there soon I was down the trapeze swing 15 feet in the air, not a great idea when I landed on my chest and it knocked the wind out of me! Well you know me, it wasn't long before I was back up on the horse! After that we headed a bit not before a shamrock was spraypainted on my back and my beard painted green..we arrived at the next place but the music was crap, so headed on until we ound a cool little bamboo shack with barely anyone there...a mojito bucket there and a few runs on the swing here and we decided to move further down. The next bar we hit had the dodgiest slide ever, I did go down it once and that was enough.

As you can imagine, lots of drink and a flowing river are a dangerous mix, thankfully we met with no issue on our adventure, but I can definitely see why somebody dies here every year. Time to return the tube and leave the 2 day tubing excursions to the young ones (Do I sound that old??)...A little worse for wear and a nice gash on my back from the valve of the tube...a successful day tubing

I've no pictures (probably just as well!) as I didn't want to risk losing another camera to the water!

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