LAOS - VANG VIENG

so heres some flicks from my week in laos. s is silent. haha. homie olga hit me up from hong kong like "so uh yeah I'm headed to some town in laos wanna go?" then i see the videos on youtube of where he wants to go and i was like "fuck that shit!" LOOK n HERE. shitshow. actually nate probably would love that. so... chalked it up bought a train ticket then seen videos of the 14 hour train ride on youtube and was like "fuck that shit too" cancelled the train ticket, bought a flight. 8 hours later and the funniest van ride from the capital city to 3-4 hours up into the countryside. now laos doesnt have highways let alone pavement. this van ride was better than most roller coasters. you'd go go, drift around a sketchy corner, go, then "boom" hit your head on the ceiling of the van twice. was fun as hell. hung over or not. i was hurting bad on that van ride and the flight. the flight was at 7am and had to catch a 2 hour taxi to the airport at 5am, so i just stayed out and drank a bottle of shitty thai whiskey til then. so the van... van finally pulls into a quiet river mountain town. I'm like wheres all the frat boys, and shitty euros in their weird racing shoes, the aussies n londoner's with their man u jerseys and their tribal tattoos, and wheres the opium..... DONE. DONE. DONE... the government shut that shit down!  they tore down everything. not a single rope swing on the whole river. only person selling beer on the river was this old lady in the hammock on the last flik. bless that old lady. beerlao is pretty damn good actually. me and ol' olga got busy on some beerlao. rented some motorbikes, hung wit da locals, swam in caves, petted cows, (there was one cow, who wanted our lives). learned that if yu want a cow to go away just chuck a big ass rock at its ass. it'll move. promise.