We took a bus from Vientiene 50,000 kip that picked us up at 9.30 and got us to Vang Vieng for around 1pm. After everything we'd read and some advice from other travellers we took a tuk tuk out of the main town of Vang Vieng and on to an
Organic Farm at the edge of town. This cost us another 20,000 Kip each.
We were told to go here as it was a lot quieter and away from the main party scene of Vang Vieng, Vang Vieng is set in beautiful surroundings but had a bad reputation previously for drugs and general misbehaviour. It has changed a lot but still has a partying feel for younger backpackers! We skipped this for peaceful bamboo bungalows in an organic farm where the only noisy neighbours waking us up would be the cockerels!
The farm is famous for its home made goats cheese and we were shown how to make it from start (milking the goats) to finish (eating it....YUM) this was quite fun, we were useless at the milking at first but got better!
The farm was the perfect place to stop and relax and read a book, but we found ourselves helping the lady who was very short staffed with jobs that she would struggle with on her own. Each time we lent a hand she gave us some free food or an organic mulberry smoothie, do it was pretty rewarding. We even helped to set up her farmstay on booking.com.
On a day trip in Vang Vieng we tried rock climbing with a very good company
Adams Climbing School. We had a great day, Gary loved the challenge and Abi took on her fear of heights to scale the huge limestone cliffs. We were taught to belay for each other and really enjoyed it. We were even looking up places to start climbing back in the UK.
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