Vang Vieng

We left Luang phrabang today by van and travelled over the mountain.

On the way to Vang vieng we saw lots of boys and girls playing a game where there would be a line of girls and a line of boys.

The girls would have a ball and they'd throw it to the boy, he'd catch it and so on. This is a way to eventually meet your future partner as the boys and girls get to talk to each other and eventually they'd play it with the partner they want to be with for the rest of their lives.

They play this game in traditional dress. For girls it would be a bright coloured dress with black thick stripes across, with bells on it. 

We went to a café for lunch in the mountains where we had sticky rice with fried morning glory (like spinach). 

Nearly everyone felt sick because of the poor road quality.

At one point we were above the clouds!

Our temporary classroom

We arrived at the Silver Naga hotel in delight to see they had a pool.

After doing homework, we were allowed to go into the swimming pool. It was freezing! 

Today we did homework beside the pool. Well, there's worse places to be doing homework!

While Dad was having his hair cut, he bumped into two Irish men from Donegal.


We decided to go tubing with them.

Tubing is riding down a river in the inner tube of a truck tire. We got a tuk-tuk to the riverside where we got our rubber rings off the roof and went down to the river where one of the men said to mum and dad " do you want a beer?"

First of all I was quite nervous because some of the river was quite fast flowing. We floated down the river for ages and we finally got off and it was nearly dark!

It was great fun and I needn't have been nervous.We walked back to our hotel soaked!

Once we changed we went out to the Irish bar to have dinner and meet the two Irish guys Darren and Martin. We went back to the hotel with Mum because we were tired.

What an amazing experience.