Adventure Touring in the Vang Vieng Rain

Yesterday it rained all day long in Vang Vieng so we spent the day pretty much going restaurant to restaurant scoping out the best views they had to offer.  Since yesterday was so low-key, we decided to go on an adventure tour today – we took a  large tuktuk loaded with kayaks 15km north of the city centre and kayaked to a village which houses a number of caves.  We trekked to the Elephant Cave, Low Cave, and the High Cave through lots of slippery mud and some serene rice fields.  After slipping and sliding through these 3 caves, we trekked over to the Water Cave which is best seen via innertube.  We had a delicious BBQ lunch at the Water Cave before hopping back in our kayaks and heading down river to the tubing area where we traded in our kayaks for some innertubes and tubed all the way back to Vang Vieng.  A full day of fun and adventure!

Night Out & Rainy Day Restaurant Tour

We earned ourselves some shirts from Fat Monkey – all we had to do was take down some lao-style vodka…. not as easy as it sounds!

Just Amanda and her “Friends”

Trekking & Caving

Kayaking & Tubing

Amanda and the guide

There are a number of riverside restaurant bars for tubers to stop at for refreshments and there is a man standing at the riverbank with a giant fishing pole (made of a long stick, rope, and a water bottle). He tosses the water bottle to tubers to literally fish them out of the river and reel them in to his restaurant!

Amanda & Adam