Quote: (11-11-2012 03:22 PM)Neil Skywalker Wrote:
I can't believe I stayed there for 10 full days. Without getting laid btw. If you are an extremely extrovert yahoo-ing and wooh-ing person then this is the place for you. I'm not that guy.
My experience was very similar to Neil's, I spent about a week in Vang Vieng, although I only did tubing on the river one day. When I was there, there were actually a decent amount of hot chicks, Aussies, Israelis, Swedes, etc. The thing is it's like MTV spring break meets Apoclypse Now on this random river in the middle of Laos.
Overall it was a lot of fun, getting drunk, tubing, going down the makeshift waterslides, etc. But the crowd there is pretty obnoxious, drunk 18-24 year olds, lots' of your typical loud mouth Aussie and Brits. If you're a really wild, extroverted partier you could have success with the women.
I'm more of a mellow low key chiller type, so I wasn't exactly feeling the crowd, and the peer pressure to keep getting drunker, and people trying to write on you with markers is also whack.
I don't know if anyone got a chance to check out the nature around Vang Vieng, but it's world class, amazing scenery, I'd easily go back just got the eco-tourism. I regret not doing more, but was lucky enough to spend a day mountain biking 3-4 miles out of town to the blue lagoon and some of the surrounding caves. The blue lagoon was cool and the cave in the mountains above it was probably one of the sickest I've ever seen.