Having received a double Thai visa, we realized that in Vientiane to do nothing special and moved to Vang Vieng. After all, how Laos is said to be famous for its national parks and nature. AND where, if not in the center of the country, they can be seen. No visit yet one town would not have such a complete picture of Laos. Therefore, it is very good that such an idea has come.
Travel information can be found here Vang Vieng – Guesthouses, what to see, how to get, bus schedule, and here is a map of Vang Vieng.
Entering Vang Vieng
Vang Vieng is a small village located on north of the capital, between Vientiane and Luanprobang. Another ten years back, there was one road here, and that one without asphalt, but a tourist the flow was minimal. Now, there is a huge amount of Backpackers, and the attitude of local residents is no longer as a person, but how to wallet.
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Vang vieng
On the streets of Vang Vieng
On the streets of Vang Vieng
On the streets of Vang Vieng
Vang Vieng in the evening
Rare specimens of French architecture
Garbage removal
Drying clothes and bananas
T-shirts with communist symbols
The main trouble is that almost every step is paid: by bridge go – pay, in a cave or a lagoon you want – let’s money. AND I’m not sure that all this is legal – a local resident arrived in the morning cave, stood at the entrance with a sign, and let’s collect a tribute. BUT the cave is the most common, in it neither light nor debris removes. Another thing, of course, is to pay for the sanitized caves. But laotians along the way are very lazy, especially when there are so many tourists and you can especially not to strain.
Tuk-Tukers sleep while working
Life here is slow and relaxed.
Bekpekera come here, it seems to me, not quite right – alcohol flows like water and crowds of drunk and noisy people dump out every evening on the street. Even a special cocktail was invented for farang in a children’s plastic bucket – something very strong + cola + energy + ice. Adult drunk children with buckets.
Many in buckets, but not children
In the evening the whole Vang Vieng drinks
Vang Vieng in the evening
Cafe in Vang Vieng
Cafe in Vang Vieng
Sometimes cafes are like that
For lovers of travels to other worlds, cook extraordinary lightness cocktails. The entrance to the teleportator is marked with a special shield. with painted spaceman mushrooms.
Login to teleportator
With a hangover and in the intervals between trekking and tubing (alloy along the river on car chambers), the whole tourist fraternity sticks in a cafe for watching the TV series Friends, broadcast in non-stop mode or in an internet cafe, with proud youtube inscriptions and facebook. By the way, internet speed is amazing slow.
Standard cafe for watching TV series Friends
Internet cafe in Vang Vieng
In fact, many come here to delight their natural gaze. beauty For this particular, and do not go anywhere. Just go out a little from the city, and you are surrounded by rocks from Avatar and the jungle. Go further and you can get into numerous caves, the main thing flashlight do not forget.
Beautiful views of Vang Vieng
Vang Vieng – between the bungalows
Nam Song River
Pleasure Boats at Nam Song River
Beauty Vang Vieng
School in Vang Vieng
Since we most of the time just walked, and not dragged over the untwisted sights, then accidentally wandered into Lao school. The doors were open, the windows too, and no one was around. And really, what are they afraid of, if they take it away completely? there is nothing.
Burnt forest near the school
School building in Vang Vieng
School building in Vang Vieng
Typical Lao school class
School – boring classes
Someone forgot the notes for the English lesson.
And finally, a photo showing the result of our struggle with rosettes of Laos. True, this is probably only our guesthouse distinguished himself, I have not seen anywhere else outlets, which in its definitions are not designed for forks. Well, there can not be a fork keep, well, no how, whatever she was.
The result of our struggle for electricity with sockets Laos
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