Nam Song River

The river near Vang Vieng.

Our Vang Vieng Guided Tour

Posted on 2nd April 202510th April 2025 by Bok McDonagh

Sometimes, the best adventures aren’t the ones you plan yourself. Sometimes it’s nice to let someone else do the work for you. In Vang Vieng, we decided to hand the reins to a local tour company for a day.

I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It’s like in the great stories. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were, and sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy. How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad happened. But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back only they didn’t. Because they were holding on to something. That there’s some good in this world. And it’s worth fighting for.