This morning was another 7 am start. All of us boarded a bus to which we get to sit on it for 4 hours before lunch at the Spectacular Views Rest Stop. Legitimately it's a truckers stop with the stunning views. After lunch, we had another 3 hours on the bus. The drive is 70* angles up and down on a windy one lane road for two way traffic. The seat creak and are leather so you stick to them easily. It's mildly comfortable but is no where near North American standards for buses. The roads are smooth and awesome for about 10 km then it would turn bumpy and shitty for 10 km and rotate the entire ride to Vang Vieng.
I got a Laos massage which was amazing. It's like a deep sports tissue massage. Thai massages is actually a relaxant massage which I had four times in Thailand. Laos massage are way better in my opinion. Dinner was at a vegetation organic farm restaurant. I had tofu stir fry which was delicious. I've eaten a lot of tofu on this trip due to lack of chicken or apparent weird meats.
Vang Vieng is the drug capital and backpacking haven of Laos. You literally can get happy or special food and shakes that have magic mushrooms on or in it. It meant that I had to be double as careful as normal. Night time was a whole lot of partying and drug abuse. You could literally do all drugs and drink in public. I really didn't like going out at night. Not my scene, not fun for me to be around drunk and high strangers. Opium is grown locally here as are the rest of the drugs which makes ease of use.
Tubing is the thing to do in Vang Vieng. There are a dozen odd bars on the Nam Song river. You tube down the river and hop into and out of bars. 31 kids have died in the two years of availability. What do you expect when you add booze, three to fifteen feet of water, flying foxes, and rope swings?
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