Been Tubing

Hello, sorry for the delay in posting, we have been tubing for a while in Vang Vieng - its a bit addictive.
Tubing is simple. You get a tractor inner tube of a guy in town, squeeze into tuk tuk with 8 other people then drive 3km up stream, where you sit in your tube and float down stream. It can get quite busy as you can see on the photo, but not so bad as the M4 on a Monday morning.
There is more to tubing than you first think, the locals have set up wicked bars along the way, so as you float past they pull you in by bamboo sticks, you get off your tube then sit and drink Beer Lao with loads of other tubers, when you have had too much sun you get on either the flying fox ( death slide, fluffy slide (depends which country you are from)) and slide into the river, or you hang off a tbar handle, stand on a platform about 8 meters high and jump so that you swing until you let go. See the photo below of me doing it below. Sam did it the first day, but those of you who have seen her dive know that she is not that graceful, and she has had whiplash ever since (shes fine now though Gaby!).
Once you have done some floating, sun bathing, drinking and swinging you get back in your tube and float 100 meters to the next bar where you do some sun bathing, drinking and swinging, then you get back on your tube and repeat until the sun sets, when you freeze your ass off running home for a hot shower.
We met loads of cool people Sharon, Scott, Carl, Garlie, Pierre, Chris Hankey lookalike from Scandanavia, and loads of other people. We ended up having to book a bus out of Vang Vieng in advance otherwise we would still be tubing now.
Out
Chris