laos is a very relaxing country. and beautiful. and believe it or not, one of the activities that helped me to slow down and appreciate that was tubing down the nam song river in vang vieng. it was fun and peaceful at times, and also full of drunken debauchery. the town itself was sort of annoying to me, with restaurants that show the tv show friends on a continuous loop and lots of tourists getting intoxicated. that said, we had a really chill time there. and even better than tubing were the couple of trips that we took to caves. in both cases we could swim inside with the use of headlamps. pretty amazing to find natural spring pools to enjoy. and that was just the beginning of the water. the new year festival involves endless squirt gun fights, hosings, and general water chaos. you learn pretty quickly to bag anything important--cameras, journals, usb drives... we truly couldn't leave our guest house without being drenched. of course, our guest house participated whole-heartedly in the celebration.
then we made our way through vientiane, the capital of laos, pretty quickly. and back on the bus for another overnighter. now we're in pakse, near the bolaven plateau which we'll explore tomorrow. i'm hoping that we'll get to do a two day trek complete with waterfall and coffee plantations and a homestay in the village. that's dependent on the weather.
after that it's off to the 4000 islands, a place that is supposed to be as beautiful as you might think 4000 islands would be. i'll let you know!
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i hope that you participated full heartedly in the water festivals and started to drench each other and some of the locals perhaps too...maybe get morgan in his sleep? tell him it's from me :-) haha. keep the posts coming, i miss you guys and hope i'll be able to join you in south korea. all i can say right now is that i will be in seoul for one month, decemberish to january -- i'll definitely keep you updated. take advantage!
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