Who would have thought inner tubes could be so much fun! Take one inflated tube, park your ass in it and float your way down 5km stretch of the Nam Song river in Veng Vien, stopping off at various river side bars along the way, where the music is pumping, beer laos flowing and people are swinging off horendously high ropes and flying foxes into the river. After a few beers my confidence was soaring and decided it was time to attempt the back flip off the rope swing! After a few belly flops and various degrees of success I managed to nail it! After that all my friends followed suit and in no time at all we were challenging each other to other crazy stunts like double backflips, front flips and stylee air! Whenever someone screwed up and slammed hard on their back or front, he/she recieved loud harmonious "ooooowwwwwssss" from the crowd on the shore.
We had only floated less than a km down the river and the sun was going down, we had to cut our journey short with a tuk tuk back to town.
With some new found friends on the river we celebrated the full moon at the local "Smile Bar" untill the 11:30pm curfew. Sleept like a log!
Next day my australian friends Liam and Mark and myself hired scooters for three days and headed off East to the city of Phonsovan to see the mysterious plain of Jars.
More on that next post :)
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