Vang Vieng, Laos

Took the bus this morning to Vang Viang, about 3 hours north of Vientiane. This place exists solely because of backpackers. On the menu for dinner, it listed a bunch of western food, and then under ethnic foods it listed LAO FOOD! Can you believe it?

Anyways only stopped here because I couldn't get a direct bus to Luang Prabang. Touristed around, saw the caves in the karst (the geographical name of the rock formations). The walk to the caves was pretty cool -- first it was about a 1km walk through rice paddies, then over a dried-up river bed, then through a forest, finally to the caves. The path's well-trodden (or is that well-trod?) so it's easy to follow.

Here's some pics:

That Luang, a temple in Vientiane (taken at sunset)



Karst surrounding Vang Vieng