roam Laos

So it's now been 5 days in South East asia and I've been busy with travelling buddies to write on this for a while so here is everything in a oner.
I stayed in Hanoi,. Vietnam for two nights which was a pleasant city not too chaotic and centred around a gorgeous spirtiual lake. I met wityh my new group on the second nuight and was surprised to find Rachel who was in the year below me at school just about to finnish the trip I was continuing. Everyone else on the tour have been travelling together for 20 days already and I am the only newbe whivh was inittially terrifying and means that there is no possibility of a Cambodian travel buddy as they have all already been there. But I was soon part of the group.
For the first three days we did not much else apart from travelling by bus from place to place to try and get to Laos and then spent only a half day in Laos's capital Vientiene, a small capital very clean with a few buddhisst temples. I enjoyed a bonding session with two others from the group whilst in the city enjoying maithai happy hour before leaving the next day with a head-ache to go to Vang Vieng.
I am currently in Vang Vieng, a town made famous for it's tubing experience in which you float down a river on a tube and dot from bar to bar whilst flinging yourself off high platforms a rickety slides. I tried it and survived but when it got dark at 6pm I did scare myself into believing I would never stop floating and end up 4 months later in the gulf of Thailand but that didn't happen. DEfinately a once in lifetime thing and possibly the only plce where it would be allowed by health and safety. After the traumatic event I arrived back at the hotel to change and shower before dinner but then the rain started and the elctricity went out so when we finally walked into town we were refused service so it was bed with an empty stomach and very wet hair.
Today I awoke to glorious sunshine so decided to rent a bicycle by myself and have already cycled in and around the town and river for two hours, enjoyed an authentic Laos massage and currently sitting have lunch in a tourist bar which plays friends on a loop. I think unless other plans are made the rest of the afternoon will also be spent relaxing before another long bus journey tomorrow.