Tubing in Laos
Tubing in Laos is the stuff of legends. There is nothing more productive when backpacking in Laos, that spending some proper time drifting between ramshackle bars and ordering huge beer laos.
The bars all come complete with various deadly contraptions, that clearly do not pass international safety standards, but seem like a good idea at the time.
How many bars you will manage to drift into is hard to say, mainly becuase they keep building new ones and that by the time you have spend a day on the river drifting down the river your are so invaiably smashed that you loose count.
One thing is for sure though, by the time you hit all the bars, you will have perfected your rope swing entry.
The location? Vang Vien – an interesting town in the middle of Laos, nestled by a river and some stunning limestone mountains it is a pretty backpacker hang out. The popularity of the place due mainly to a sport/activity called Tubing. This involves floating down the river for 5km sat in an inner tube from a car tyre, stopping off every hundred metres at these ramshackle bars with huge rope swings, loading up on beer Lao or for the really idiotic doing shots of Lao Lao rice wine. This is probably the most fun you can have with your clothes on in Vang Vien (or not, I was proud to expose my butt to a bar full of about 50 people – mid swing – to a huge applause and a rather shocked bar owner.)
You have to hand it to the people of Laos, – Laosasians, Loawegiens, Lotions…whatever they are called, they sure know how to have a good time. I have no idea if it is because the country has only been open to tourism for the last 10 years (1997) so they have not yet become fed up with tourism, but the people are possible the friendliest nation I have ever come across.
You can go tubing in Laos to your hearts content on our backpacking in Laos Trips.
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