No rush ... After a lazy start we managed to motivate ourselves to buy our bus tickets for tomorrow to Vientiane. We are being picked up at 9am, so not too early this time.
We said goodbye to a group of American girls we had met a couple of times as they are catching their bus to southern Laos and it is a 20 hour journey! Ours, at 3.5 hours seems like a dream...
We had lunch in a small cafe, whilst watching Friends. Fairly tricky to avoid as it is not just playing downstairs in our guesthouse but in nearly every single bar and restautrant in Vang Vieng, all day and night!
In the afternoon we took a walk along the Mekong River. There was a cool breeze which was certainly welcome. We passed fields of cows, small sun shelters for the local workers and saw some pretty butterflies. We rested under the shade of one of the shelters watching the banana trees grow,before walking back along the river across the bamboo bridge and back into town.
The friendly man was at the market today but wasn't making his little fresh cakes, so we had to settle for the dreaded doughnuts ;-) After demolishing a few and saving some for breakfast, we headed to visit the quieter end of town. There was a nice temple with many vibrant colours and a lady selling more snacks. We tried part of what looked like a giant omlette. It was very salty and hidden discretely inside ... red hot chilli peppers. No, not those superstar pop idols but the little veggies that can burn when you eat them, and they did!
Afterwards, we decided we had not eaten enough today and stopped at a great little cafe for some veggie fair before heading back to Friends episode 126! The rest of the evening we battled with the internet to try and book future travel!
We said goodbye to a group of American girls we had met a couple of times as they are catching their bus to southern Laos and it is a 20 hour journey! Ours, at 3.5 hours seems like a dream...
We had lunch in a small cafe, whilst watching Friends. Fairly tricky to avoid as it is not just playing downstairs in our guesthouse but in nearly every single bar and restautrant in Vang Vieng, all day and night!
In the afternoon we took a walk along the Mekong River. There was a cool breeze which was certainly welcome. We passed fields of cows, small sun shelters for the local workers and saw some pretty butterflies. We rested under the shade of one of the shelters watching the banana trees grow,before walking back along the river across the bamboo bridge and back into town.
The friendly man was at the market today but wasn't making his little fresh cakes, so we had to settle for the dreaded doughnuts ;-) After demolishing a few and saving some for breakfast, we headed to visit the quieter end of town. There was a nice temple with many vibrant colours and a lady selling more snacks. We tried part of what looked like a giant omlette. It was very salty and hidden discretely inside ... red hot chilli peppers. No, not those superstar pop idols but the little veggies that can burn when you eat them, and they did!
Afterwards, we decided we had not eaten enough today and stopped at a great little cafe for some veggie fair before heading back to Friends episode 126! The rest of the evening we battled with the internet to try and book future travel!
