Tubing in Vang Vieng

16th November

Despite our best efforts to sleep in, we were up at 8am, but at least the view isn't too bad! 

We had a lazy morning and met a couple from the Stray bus for some tubing. We took a tuk tuk up river and were dropped off with our tubes and, surprise surprise, we floated down the river. We didn't do much, or anything really, but it was really nice to just float down the river, looking at the mountains and for the first time in days – not sweating! I left the tube a few times and had a swim while Rory looked after my camera, which I am pleased to report, survived another day in the water! I think some moisture got in the case but everything is working as it should so I'm not too worried!

After a few hours we were nearing the end of our tubing when all of a sudden some kid swam over and attached himself to us. We thought he wanted a lift down the river but he became increasingly pushy and kept telling us to get out of the water. He was really bossy for a little kid so we followed him out and then he started trying to take our tubes and asking for money. Had we given him our tubes we would have missed out on our deposits of 60,000Kip so I'm glad we were brave enough to shake off the ten year old!

We spent the rest of the day relaxing and went out for a fairly average dinner at the Irish bar. There isn't much to do in Vang Vieng, especially at night so once we finished dinner we came back to the hotel and watched Thor! The one downside to this hotel is that we can't get wifi in our room, only in reception but I'll take the view over wifi any day!