November 5, 2005 - Floating Down the River
The Mekong River
What a great day!!
Here in Vang Vieng it is full of backpackers, and there is a lot to do. All of the Cafes play Friends DVDs all day, so the theme song can get pretty annoying, but it is really nice to laze about at breakfast and watch a few episodes of everyones favortie sitcom.
We all got up pretty late and at breakfast around 12, then decided to go tubing down the river, it is a big thing here. So we go rent innter tubes, and the taxi truck thing takes us up to where we set off. The river here is really calm, enough of a current but nothing like at home.
Here in Vang Vieng it is full of backpackers, and there is a lot to do. All of the Cafes play Friends DVDs all day, so the theme song can get pretty annoying, but it is really nice to laze about at breakfast and watch a few episodes of everyones favortie sitcom.
We all got up pretty late and at breakfast around 12, then decided to go tubing down the river, it is a big thing here. So we go rent innter tubes, and the taxi truck thing takes us up to where we set off. The river here is really calm, enough of a current but nothing like at home.
You just chill floating down the river, drinking your beer, and stopping along the way. All of the locals have set up bars and stuff along the way, you buy a beer and you can go on the rope swings and the zip lines, there are loads of people around and everyone has a good laugh. The only thing that sucks is that you can't really bring your camera unless you want it to be ruined by the water. Today was definatly one of the coolest experiences i have had so far. I just wish i could have taken some photos.
We will probably do it again tommorrow.
We will probably do it again tommorrow.