The tubing costs about 5 € for a stay of up to 18h. If one gives the Tube after 18h, so you have to pay another 2 € extra. The price is the tuk tuk (small Motorradbus-taxi) ride to the starting point. Without a stop it takes about 3h to get back to the tube for to make lending station drive. The route is about 4km long and most of the bars are located on the first two kilometers. This means that if you have scoured all the bars, it was still 2-3km road ahead of it and you should plan for this route at least 2h time. In general, the time does not create, even if you just like we agreed already at 11 and starts. Most of the people is only between 13-14am at the first bar (Bar Smile) and making itself ever warm. The Smile Bar painted each of the diligent will to a Edding colorful flowers and slogans on the body, so that each has its own special look. I have to do without it, because that's still all that at the swimming trunks and a T-Shirt abschmiert.
The tuk tuk ride, we have not seen four other German. Christian, John, his brother Joachim and his girlfriend Hannah. Such was our extended group ever and we could wait together the first two hours in the Smile Bar, the bar filled up slowly. All the bars play loud music and always have some games ready. Then it started for us. Tube fooled into the water, and go with the 100m, because there was already waiting for the second station, the investors in the Bucket bar here and in all other bars, it goes further as well. People wait as long to fill up the bars, many people there, the mood is good and then slowly with the first commuters to continue again with the water tube to go. Almost everywhere you get free whiskey shots, so the atmosphere becomes weak and can stimulate the consumption of other beverages. Since I hate whiskey as good as I did without it and thankfully am either stuck with a cool Laobeer or water since the times for me were just too early to drink more. At one of the stations I then get the right feel like to swing on the cable car, where you can drop of 3-5 meters in the flow. Quite as dangerous the thing that is not, because in many places stones in the water and if you are too early or too late can fall, can have serious consequences. Apart from a mini Cut because of the sometimes sharp stones, with us everything went well. For this one could get at a bar but a healthy Schlambad. Sorry, but that day was four years old but my camera gave up the ghost. For the protection of water you can buy so-called Drybags that are water resistant to 99%. Such a bag I had already bought in Thailand, I knew that I wanted to tube-in Laos. My camera is also not become wet, but in the bag, the lens must be well opened by itself and have been pushed through a corner, so they will not close properly and not properly absorbed. Now I have a very blurred image, and dispose of it may well. Fortunately I had all but Tubing photos already shot, so it was no great loss and I in Bangkok then it must get a new camera. Against 16h we then made their way back and enjoyed themselves to achieve by the end of 18h and pay no penalty. Since the water is so low in part, however, no one gets out fast speeds and bobs slowly to himself. It was already 17.45Uhr and we had determined a further 1.5 km before us. The only way out: take tuk tuk to pay 10 000 Kip per person and thus do not pay the 20,000 Kip punishment. In the end, we have saved 10 000 Kip.
with our German troops we were at dinner or something and then again in the night bars but long we could not stand, because we all pretty much done on the efforts of the day were and have made before midnight on the way home. The next day Tobias
is moved to the east by Laos and its travel partner, Natalie had booked a trekking tour. So had the rest, including me, once again agreed to tubing. This time we wanted to do but without the whole tube and float easily between the bars. By the way, do it probably 60-70% of those present, knowing full well that they can not get the Tube back to 18h and then also save the rental fee of 5 €. So you take the tuk tuk to where it starts and otherwise enjoying the Day without a tube. Just before we were going to swim at the second bar, Hannah asked me again if I go with him to jump. Why not clear. This time it's a cable car, where you should let go myself from the end, since otherwise by the impact on the end piece makes an involuntary somersault and usually with abdominal or back Bludger in the water ends up. No sooner said than done when there would not swim suddenly this little Laotian boy just on my car. If I had been released before the stopper, then the risk would be too large to land fully on the boys and it quite possible to hurt seriously, so I tried to wait as long as possible to let go of the rope behind him. Since one slides but with an enormous speed, can be estimated very bad as many seconds you have added. And so it happened that I've released too late and done with full force by the impact on the stopper a somersault and I've come up with your back on the water. Boys do not hit, stepped out well, but somehow I've gotten a blow in the face. No idea how, but I felt a slight pain. appeared on the water surface again I have noticed that something is wrong and have also seen the other three. You could already see from afar, namely, that blood was running from my nose, so they gave me a sign that something is wrong with my nose. Oh ha .... So, now I have also seen and felt. From both nostrils ran down the blood and I had already adjusted to a pretty bad break. Arriving at the shore again, I have tried with handkerchiefs, the bleeding to stop. Strangely, from the outside was nothing visible and the pain was not too doll. She could not be broken, otherwise I would have had quite dolle pain. But But where was the blood? My guess is that I've met at the Falls with his left knee and my nose and my mouth has gotten it from the bottom once. My knee has namely a small cut, which can only be from the tooth. Now I sit only once since, quite in shock and do not even know what I have now should do. Fortunately, everything at the moment so bad and with a little handkerchief, the bleeding is to get well under control. The following day, but I will certainly be with the internal wounds and may have to fight the resulting impaired ventilation.
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