Vang Vieng

South of Luang Prabang, Vang Vieng is a smaller and even more dilapidated town, built around an abandoned US airstrip. The road between the two towns is apparently plagued by armed highwaymen, but our journey passed without incident. In Vang Vieng, I went tubing on the river, (basically floating down the river in a tractor tyre innertube, drinking beer), and feasted on some of the best fresh baguettes outside France.