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Took the bus to Vang Vieng this morning. You can just take the bus in center of town apparently, you don't have to go all the way to the northern busstation. We were, together with one other guy, the only falang on the bus. We expected that there would be more. Maybe because we took a local bus and not a VIP touring bus. It was quite and experience :) The ride itself was okay. No brakedown like in Vietnam. But the bus was loaded! When all the seats were taken, they just put some plastic chairs in the aile where more people can sit. Then they also put a scooter on the bus, also in the aile. No problem! That only created more seats since they ran out of plastic chairs :)
Arriving in Vang Vieng, we knew we had to go to the bridge since we didn't want to stay at the backpackers area. 80.000KIP for a room (10$), which is probably not the cheapest in town. But we get (hopefully) silent nights, a fantastic view on the mountains, free wifi (which doesn't always work ;) ) and the river 20 meters from the guesthouse.
Once we took a shower, we walked a bit around, bought ourselves two new 'old' books, something to drink and headed back to our guesthouse where we read our books on our terras until the sun went down (beautiful sunset over mountain view!). For dinner we headed back to the backpackers area and realised once again that we're sooo not cool ;) All this drunk people, walking in their bikini's and bear chests on the streets (not showing any respect for the locals), hmmm, not our thing :)
If, and we say if, we go tubing, then we'll probably do this in the morning when we hope the 'cool' drunks are still in their beds with a hangover. But still, Vang Vieng looks very nice out of the backpackers area! Very, very nice mountains, quiet, sun, water... We think we will be able to relax here for three days. Maybe rent a motobike to visit the caves, read, watch the sunsets, swim, read some more... Sounds good.
Oh and once again, we locked the door with our key still inside :) It has never been a problem since they always have a second key. Well, this time they couldn't find it. So the girls from the guesthouse started banging on the door and windows, of coarse without any effect. Then they went and got a knife to try and pick the lock. Didn't work either. They went back to the balconydoor to bang on the door again. So Ardan took the knife and picked the lock like a professional, so we got in :) Note to ourselves: make this the last time that you've locked yourself out!! :)
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Took the bus to Vang Vieng this morning. You can just take the bus in center of town apparently, you don't have to go all the way to the northern busstation. We were, together with one other guy, the only falang on the bus. We expected that there would be more. Maybe because we took a local bus and not a VIP touring bus. It was quite and experience :) The ride itself was okay. No brakedown like in Vietnam. But the bus was loaded! When all the seats were taken, they just put some plastic chairs in the aile where more people can sit. Then they also put a scooter on the bus, also in the aile. No problem! That only created more seats since they ran out of plastic chairs :) Arriving in Vang Vieng, we knew we had to go to the bridge since we didn't want to stay at the backpackers area. 80.000KIP for a room (10$), which is probably not the cheapest in town. But we get (hopefully) silent nights, a fantastic view on the mountains, free wifi (which doesn't always work ;) ) and the river 20 meters from the guesthouse.
Once we took a shower, we walked a bit around, bought ourselves two new 'old' books, something to drink and headed back to our guesthouse where we read our books on our terras until the sun went down (beautiful sunset over mountain view!). For dinner we headed back to the backpackers area and realised once again that we're sooo not cool ;) All this drunk people, walking in their bikini's and bear chests on the streets (not showing any respect for the locals), hmmm, not our thing :)
If, and we say if, we go tubing, then we'll probably do this in the morning when we hope the 'cool' drunks are still in their beds with a hangover. But still, Vang Vieng looks very nice out of the backpackers area! Very, very nice mountains, quiet, sun, water... We think we will be able to relax here for three days. Maybe rent a motobike to visit the caves, read, watch the sunsets, swim, read some more... Sounds good.
Oh and once again, we locked the door with our key still inside :) It has never been a problem since they always have a second key. Well, this time they couldn't find it. So the girls from the guesthouse started banging on the door and windows, of coarse without any effect. Then they went and got a knife to try and pick the lock. Didn't work either. They went back to the balconydoor to bang on the door again. So Ardan took the knife and picked the lock like a professional, so we got in :) Note to ourselves: make this the last time that you've locked yourself out!! :)
ik vind wel cool dat jullie niet zo cool zijn.
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Wij vinden het ook wel cool dat we niet zo cool zijn ;)
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