Khao San road thru the ages

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Big Daikon wrote: Sun Jan 29, 2023 7:18 pm
John Bingham wrote: Wed Jan 25, 2023 5:57 pm I never got why anyone on holiday would want to watch videos of old episodes of Friends.
Obviously, Laos is a better spot to watch Friends.
Vang Vieng had a least 50 restaurants doing Friends all day in those times.
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Big Daikon wrote: Sun Jan 29, 2023 7:18 pm
John Bingham wrote: Wed Jan 25, 2023 5:57 pm I never got why anyone on holiday would want to watch videos of old episodes of Friends.
Obviously, Laos is a better spot to watch Friends.
was in Vang Vieng in 2011 when it was a full ln party town full of young kids getting shitfaced on the river (with 27 dying that year alone) and in the bars, Plus open all night

Back in 2012 and by 10 pm most everything was closed and most places along the river were shut down ( and the backpackers had moved on) when the government got tired of the way things were going
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phuketrichard wrote: Mon Jan 30, 2023 7:38 am
Big Daikon wrote: Sun Jan 29, 2023 7:18 pm
John Bingham wrote: Wed Jan 25, 2023 5:57 pm I never got why anyone on holiday would want to watch videos of old episodes of Friends.
Obviously, Laos is a better spot to watch Friends.
was in Vang Vieng in 2011 when it was a full ln party town full of young kids getting shitfaced on the river (with 27 dying that year alone) and in the bars, Plus open all night

Back in 2012 and by 10 pm most everything was closed and most places along the river were shut down ( and the backpackers had moved on) when the government got tired of the way things were going
I was in VV in 2013 or 14. The vibe seemed less crazy than the stories I've heard. Still had fun tubing down the river and stomping around the jungle.
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Vang Vieng was a brilliant madness while it was a thing.

Knew a local woman who had three houses next to each other along the river, each one them representing a western boyfriend or husband she'd once had.

Met an Irishman who was always drunk by 12pm and would get his money stolen by the same massage girls each week because he'd pass out on their table. I ask him why he kept going back to be told the massages were really that good.

Met an Australian journalist who was drinking early afternoon and was obviously pissed. Within a minute he straightened himself up, did a live cross for Australian radio, then recommenced drinking and continued our conversation without skipping a beat.

The murky late night bar at the old airstrip got raided early one morning by ten army dudes with Aks. I asked Bear (the bar organizer/owner) why they were there to be told he hadn't paid "tea money" for a while.

A local monk used to go out regularly at night get drunk, fight, then you'd see him raking leaves in his robes at 7am.

A Swedish guy tried to take on the pancake cart mafia with his burger cart and promptly got driven off rather unceremoniously....
...many more memories.

Vang Vieng could never last, but for a while it was a hilarious place to spend time with some brilliant company to be had.
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