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Shipment times vary per order, please bear with us. And that brings us to today. Unfortunately, shortly after the FMP, Sawyers started feeling really crummy and ended up staying at a hospital on Koh Phangan.

He should be joining us on Koh Tao in the next couple of days though. But seriously, the last two weeks have been just as eventful as the last month, with some injuries thrown in. Some are funny-gross, and others are serious-gross.

Just a heads up. After leaving the debauchery in Vang Vieng, we took a minivan to Vientiene, which we simply used to fly to Vietnam from. The Old Quarter is the heart of the city, and it is crammed with people. First things first, everybody and their mothers and I mean that phrase literally owns a motorbike. But watching them weave slowly between the hordes of people, coming with in centimeters of clipping people is insane. It makes no sense.

And if somebody did hit you? So enough about the actual city and back to our trip. We spent the first day walking around the city and seeing all of the big stuff like the Ho Chi Minh Monument and Palace.

It was actually hilarious watching as kids would literally come running over and their faces light up, while the other vendors who were also selling balloons just looked on in anger. However, corrupt government officials seems to be a universal trend these days, as the locals are apparently getting extremely pissed about dirty cops and higher up officials. Pretty crazy. Zoom is from Hanoi originally, but actually spent 7 years in Alaska studying, so she was one of the very, very few who spoke English.

The tour was awesome. We rented bikes and took them to just outside the city limits, where we met some local farmers, one man and his son who grew a variety of crops and one family who grew only bananas. Zoom also took us to various local places to eat to sample some Vietnamese dishes, which usually included a bunch of noodles in a broth, cilantro, and then topped with various meats such as beef, chicken, eel, and even snails the eels and snails are actually quite good.

However, by far my favorite part of the tour was getting to meet her parents, particularly her father. Her dad was a photographer on the front lines during the war, and photographed some of the biggest moments in modern history, including the Fall of Saigon and the death of Ho Chi Minh.

He even had the opportunity to meet Ho Chi Minh during the war which I thought was incredible. Zoom acted as our translator, and I just sat there for an hour and a half picking his brain about what it was like growing up in North Vietnam during the communist rise to power, how they view the South since reunification, and everything related to the war. It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to get to talk to somebody on the opposite end of the spectrum, and needlesstosay, I learned a ton.

The Bay is a massive cluster of rock islands that petrude from the bay, so the place is like no other in the world which is why it was named one of the 7 natural wonders of the world. We, being the highly sophisticated travelers that we are, decided to book something a little more substantial and mature we just once again did not plan and they were already sold out of the cheap option.

But it actually ended up working out quite well. We ate like kings for the two days, with the food definitely being the highlite of the cruise aside from the actual Bay obviously. We basically had the polar opposite experience from the booze cruise type tours in that our boat was about as tame as could be. The other people on our boat was a Canadian couple with a 3-year-old daughter, three old Chinese women, two sets of European couples, an older irish man, and two american guys our age.

We did some of the main caves that every one of the boats goes to. The caves are really cool with massive caverns and ceilings, but the massive amount of tourists that roll through them really takes away from the experience. We also got to kayak through one of the lagoons.

Now, four year-old men and year-old Jason should able to behave maturely and responsibly with kayaks and not require supervision. We proved them seriously wrong. We were tipping eachother, throwing eachother into the bay, and just causing all kinds of raucous.

I even had to watch helplessly as my paddle sank to the bottom of the bay. While trying to find the paddle on the seabed, I attempted to throw my shirt onto a kayak, missed the kayak, and proceeded to then watch my shirt sink to the bottom of the bay. We also went squid fishing off the back off our boat.

Nobody else managed to catch anything, so Ben, still not used to consistently coming in 2nd place to me, actually threw Anna back into the sea.

I was even more pissed off because David said we could cook her in the morning for lunch, which I thought would be really cool. I have the pride and claim as the best fisherman of the group.

Think about that, Ben. When we got back from the cruise, we immediately started long-term motorbike trip 2: Hanoi to Hoi An. The route covers all of the northern Vietnam coast, and ends about km south of the DMZ in southern Vietnam. Once again, there are no laws. Traffic lights mean absolutely nothing. Fun stuff, right? It gets way better. People looking to make a left-hand turn i. Or the conservative people just drive into oncoming traffic until they have time to play real-life frogger and dash across to the right side of the road.

Same thing with people making a right into traffic I. I keep making it sound like these roads are like US roads in that there are lanes for traffic going one way and then lanes for traffic going the opposite way.

Not even close. All lanes are fair game for whoever wants them, and buses take full advantage of it. The first day, Ben was going 40 km and trying to pass a bus via a little median that separated the two lanes of traffic. Unfortunately, there was a guy just sitting perpendicular to both lanes of traffic once again, nothing out of the ordinary yet extremely dangerous. Ben tried to slam on the foot break and ended up sliding the bike, sending him skidding across the pavement.

The rest of us had slightly minor falls, going usually less than 20 that only resulted in cuts and scrapes. Still sucked, but like I said, it could be a lot worse. And we found out just how bad it could be on our second to last day of riding. We pulled up and blood is just splattered all over the pavement, as one Vietnamese women is laying dead still in a pool of her blood. I leaned over to see if she was still breathing, and could see her neck pulsating ever so slightly, so she was definitely alive.

He seemed conscious in that his eyes were open and would periodically scan back and forth, but he still was in very critical condition from what it looked like. People had obviously called an ambulance, but it seemed to be taking forever. There were about 25 locals huddled around the more severely injured girl with us.

What happened next was appalling. We were pleading and screaming at them, trying to explain not to touch her and that she may have spine or neck damage. None of them spoke English, obviously, and so our efforts were in vain. We had to watch as they picked her up out of her pool of blood and put her in taxi cab, as her friend was hysterically sobbing in the front seat. It was absolutely awful. The worst was then watching the taxi cab pull away, and having the ambulance pull up 2 minutes later and care to the man that was still lying there.

We then left, realizing there was nothing more we could do except pray they both made it. During the ride, though, we got to see some pretty sweet things.

Once outside of Hanoi, we rode through the mountains to stay at a home stay set up for us by Zoom in Mae Chaem. To put it in perspective, we had to go so slow to avoid falling on these roads that we traveled only 35 km 22 miles in 2 hours.

Lastly, we visited the Imperial Citadel at the major city of Hue. The citadel is basically a castle or fortress and housed the Emperors of The Nguyen dynasty until Vietnam became an official state in I always think of modern Vietnam history, so it was cool to learn about what things were like prior to western influence. We visited a town called Vinh Moc, which lies right on the coast and right on the former north Vietmanese DMZ boundary.

The city was so heavily targeted by U. And we got to walk through the same tunnels, as they leave them basically untouched and you can experience them as the villagers did. It was insane. We also visited the Unexploded Ordinances Museum, which is a memorial to the victims of landmines and other explosives that were leftover from the war, but led to future accidents.

You can actually sign your life away and go see them blow up one of the found unexploded ordinances, but we unfortunately did not have the 2-week application time frame in hand. We were riding through the mountains, with the ocean to the left of us, mountains to the right, and so the views were just incredible. After the extremely long and stressful journey, we ended on a much needed high-note. We just booked a flight to Saigon Ho Chi Minh City for all you politically correct people for tomorrow morning which will be our last stop in Vietnam.

They would always run up to us when we were stopped to give us a high five or in one case, let Ben shoot their slingshot. We were just wrapping up the Mae Hong Son loop with our motorbikes. We even got to check out some geysers and hot springs in the final leg of the journey. Before we went back to Chiang Mai, we still wanted to see the caves at Chiang Dao a city about 80 km north of Chiang Mai.

The caves here are really extensive, with supposedly over 12km worth of tunnels, although only 2km-ish is open to the public. Some of these tunnels were lit with lights and lined with walking paths so that the and-older tourists can experience them. The caves were awesome with huge caverns, rock formations, and bats flying out from the pitch-black tunnels ahead of you there were obviously a few shrieks from all of us.

The only thing preventing us from going past a certain point was a stream about knee-deep that none of us felt like hopping into, which was honestly probably for the better considering how deep we had gone up to that point. When we got back to Chiang Mai, we went back and got our 3rd and final fitting for our suits that we had purchased before beginning the loop. However, the owner was just a damn saint, and started throwing freebies at us for being such good customers, so we all ended up getting 2 more fitted shirts, a tie, and shipping back to The States for nothing.

Not a bad deal, right? And while we were waiting for our suits, we got another awesome surprise: food poisoning! Where will the fun end, right?! But seriously, it sucked. I immediately started feeling drowsy and just out of it, so I went to lay down at around after getting back from the suit place and had the rest of the guys go figure out our journey out of Thailand.

I woke up the next morning to find that Chase and Ben had thrown up a couple of times in the middle of the night, in which we realized we all had the same omelette that morning in Chiang Dao. We then began the journey from Chiang Mai to the border town of Chiang Khong. This would be our final stop in Thailand before crossing over to Laos and the city of Huay Xai. Not that I have any sense of budgeting for this trip though. We crossed the border from Chiang Khong to Huay Xai.

That feeling changed really quick when I realized that I lost my departure card that I received upon entering Thailand. After a brief panic and a pretty pissed off customs employee, I just filled out a new one and walked right through. Gotta love the perks of being American. We actually ended up getting good seats for all four of us, and we took off for the 8-hour ride down the Mekong, then layover in Pak Beng for the night, and another hour ride the next day to Luang Prabang.

We were definitely in the latter in that we had a great time. Everybody on our boat the first day was extremely friendly, and so we ended up having beers with a Swedish couple, Aussie couple, and a couple of guys from England. That night was interesting, too.

The minute you step off the slow boat in Pak Beng, you are swarmed with hordes of people trying to sell you their guesthouse or hostel for the night. I had a couple of friendly, decent-sized spiders living in the mosquito net above my bed. They complied and we sprinted out the next morning. The second day was much more of the same.

The scenes seemed to get progressively more beautiful as we got further into Laos, with more of the rolling mountains that we saw during the loop. Ben and I even managed to sneak on the roof of the slow boat, which offered even cooler views. Ben had no problem with it. We were up there for a solid 30 minutes before one of the other boats on our mini-caravan pulled up next to us and signaled to one of the workers on our boat. He pops his head up, just tells us to get down, and all is well.

All the more reason to love this place. The ride flew by and we arrived in Luang Prabang…or so we thought. I knew this and told the guys who then began telling others in an effort to organize a protest until they took us the rest of the way like we paid for. A group of British, Norweigan, and German girls that we had been talking to during the ride held out with us.

A solid minutes passed since the rest of the people had left the boat, and now the workers were starting to get pissed. We knew what was going on. They knew that we knew what was going on. And we knew that they knew that we knew what was going on, since they would just smile every time we told them that we know the boat continues onward.

The only problem was they could sit on the boat the entire day; they literally had absolutely no where they needed to be. Eventually, we started losing protestors until it was just me and two of the Brits.

It was a matter of pride at this point in being the last one off the boat notice Ben and one of the girls caving in first and just standing on the beach waiting for us , and we had placed a wager of last one off is owed a beer so now things were extremely high-stake.

Eventually, we all ended up caving and getting off the boat one of the girls was was the last one off by a cheap technicality. Welcome to Luang Prabang! That night, we went out with the girls we met on the boat. It was interesting because the city has an curfew, meaning all the bars close then. Night over, right?

Once the bars close, everybody goes to the bowling alley apparently and continues the night with drinking and bowling. Who the hell would have thought bowling and Luang Prabang would be a thing? So we started off the night at an extremely popular bar called Utopia situated right on the river before making our way to the bowling alley at All 20 or so lanes were full, people were ripping shots of cheap Lao rice whiskey and vodka, and the Macarena played at least 10 times it was a huge crowd pleaser.

The Norwegian girls we were with had never bowled in their life, so if you saw their faces the first time they knocked down a pin you would have guessed they just won the lotto. It was also funny watching the drunk backpackers trying to communicate with the front desk workers who were serving the drinks and other things.

One of the British girls tried to order a pack of cigarettes and the lady comes back with a bag of freshly popped buttered popcorn from the microwave. I was on the brink of tears. To end the night, we all took a tuk tuk home and we were dropped off 2nd to last, with the Norwegians last.

Two hostels for the same night. The best part was hearing how he got home in the morning by taking a tuk tuk around the block to our hostel. As in a 2-minute walk. Great first night in Laos. The next day we went and visited the famous Kuang Si Falls. This series of waterfalls is about 30km from the city, so we hoped in a minivan yay and got there in an hour.

Towards the top of the falls, there was a larger and deeper portion of the river, which meant somebody had already taken the liberty of making a jumping platform off of the nearby tree branch. It was a great day, and even with all of the cool nature formations we had seen in the previous three weeks, this one took the cake.

We also squeezed in a tour called The Rice Experience at a local farm. The tour was awesome, and we got to plow the fields using water buffalo, plant the rice seedlings, and harvest the individual rice grains using a thrasher think of just smacking stalks of rice against a board so the individual rice grains fall out.

Our guide, Chi Lee sweet name, I know was the man and then had his wife show us how to prepare the different forms of rice sticky vs. I know the descriptions are as poor as can be but I was really focused on just eating at that point. That night we took an overnight bus to Vang Vieng, famous for its party tubing scene.

The bus was just awful. We got a couple hours of sleep and prepared to tube the next day. Bars lined the banks of the river, and backpackers would float down the river, stopping at the bars to take free shots and whatever else the bar was offering. We grabbed our tractor tire inner tubes, took a tuk tuk to the first bar, and we were warmly greeted with free shots of Laos whiskey.

We knew it was going to be a damn good day after that. Nothing screams romance like drinking, dancing, and floating with strangers. Each of the 4 bars had some sort of fun thing going on, like one had plank walking, which is essentially a balance beam over a pool of water. It would have been hard enough to do sober, let alone after they shoved shots down your face. Contact seller. Visit store.

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