10. January 2018 19:01
by Rene Pallesen
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Vang Vieng - Watersports
10. January 2018 19:01 by Rene Pallesen | 0 Comments
At Vang Vieng we did do some water sports.
Again we were extremely lucky kayaking a section of the river back to Vang Vieng and having the entire river to ourselves.
The three kids were all in a kayak with our guide sitting on top of their life jackets - fortunately they can all swim.
Kim and I was in one Kayak and Sacha and Mavis in another.
Just where we started out there was a rapid with water flowing over a large boulder but with plenty of flat water on the sides. Kim was little impressed when I headed straight into the rapids and with perfect skills paddled us through them...her being soaked and the kayak being full of water may have had something to do with it.
She's later said that the kayaking trip was one of her favourite and most fun activities on the trip, so maybe she was somewhat impressed with my brilliant paddling skills!!
Along the river are still some of the remains of the bars and zip lines - but all very quiet now.
Approaching Vang Vieng we went past some really scenic locations with bungalows etc.
The experience at the end got and all thumbs up!
Another water activity that Mavis and I did was tubing through one of the caves. You essentially sit in an inflated car tyre and then pull yourself along a rope inside a cave. It was fun for the kids, however this place was packed with Koreans trying to do the same thing.
Aiden initially didn't want to go, but I am proud that he eventually managed to get the courage to do so.
We also went to one of the lagoons. There are a number of them and some of them are very popular. We organised with a driver to drive us to one of the less popular ones. It was still scenic and it had platforms of the trees to jump from and you could see why some travelers would have killed themselves jumping off them.
There were also a couple of rafts which reminded me of the first time I went to Laos and paddles across a local river on a raft. It got on one of them in the lagoon and the whole thing literally sunk under me - I only just managed to get off in time before getting soaked.
The second one was able to hold my weight and I took the boys for a little paddle.
Again we were extremely lucky kayaking a section of the river back to Vang Vieng and having the entire river to ourselves.
The three kids were all in a kayak with our guide sitting on top of their life jackets - fortunately they can all swim.
Kim and I was in one Kayak and Sacha and Mavis in another.
Just where we started out there was a rapid with water flowing over a large boulder but with plenty of flat water on the sides. Kim was little impressed when I headed straight into the rapids and with perfect skills paddled us through them...her being soaked and the kayak being full of water may have had something to do with it.
She's later said that the kayaking trip was one of her favourite and most fun activities on the trip, so maybe she was somewhat impressed with my brilliant paddling skills!!
Along the river are still some of the remains of the bars and zip lines - but all very quiet now.
Approaching Vang Vieng we went past some really scenic locations with bungalows etc.
The experience at the end got and all thumbs up!
Another water activity that Mavis and I did was tubing through one of the caves. You essentially sit in an inflated car tyre and then pull yourself along a rope inside a cave. It was fun for the kids, however this place was packed with Koreans trying to do the same thing.
Aiden initially didn't want to go, but I am proud that he eventually managed to get the courage to do so.
We also went to one of the lagoons. There are a number of them and some of them are very popular. We organised with a driver to drive us to one of the less popular ones. It was still scenic and it had platforms of the trees to jump from and you could see why some travelers would have killed themselves jumping off them.
There were also a couple of rafts which reminded me of the first time I went to Laos and paddles across a local river on a raft. It got on one of them in the lagoon and the whole thing literally sunk under me - I only just managed to get off in time before getting soaked.
The second one was able to hold my weight and I took the boys for a little paddle.
