Travellers getting drunk by a river... best idea ever.

So having arrived at Vang Vieng and seeing hoards of backpackers dressed head to toe in illuminous 'Laos' branded clothing, body paint and bandages we decided that it would be a really idea to join the droves of whiskey intoxicated revellers down at the river.

Tubing is a pretty strange concept really. A ridiculously dirty river combined with wasted travellers and zip wires seems like the most stupid idea in the world. Stupid and sooooo much fun.

Hannah and I were originally going to go tubing just for a couple of days as we're now on a race against time through the rest of south east Asia. But 7 days later we have only just arrived in Luang Prabang having destroyed our bodies and our souls.

We thought that Full Moon was pretty messy but its been decided that Tubing reaches new heights. Having literally drunk from 1pm until 5am everyday for the last week we decided that the time had come to leave. The problem is that Vang Vieng is one of those places that you just get stuck in. I want to say in a similar way to what happened in Buenos Aires but this took a whole new extreme. There are only 2 buses each day and the chances of you being up for either of them and not feeling more than a little bit sick is pretty low. We tried to leave three days ago but it just never happened. There are people that have actually been trapped there for 14 months, so our 7 days seems like nothing really.

On the bus on the way down we made friends with a group of about 10 Brits that then took over the hostel that we were staying at. We found that the best way to test whether they should be worthy of our friendship was to

1) Assess their drinking capabilities... they were necking vodka whilst still on the bus. Pass.

2) Request a rapping performance.
Pass. (kind of... Bradley managed to utter the words 55 several times to some weird beat, but its the effort that counts)

3) Perform a handstand
Pass. (kind of... it did end in a fall)

4) Celebrity claims to fame
Pass. (We were with both Daniel Radcliffe, Daniel Radcliffe VI and the sporn child of Leona Lewis and Rio Ferdinand).

Alongside out Stats list we also have a dare list. This has to be regularly updated and the competition has got pretty intense. I am now successfully ahead having held a snake the other day, but where the comp really hotted up was in the Lying Competition.

Originally we were just supposed to attempt to swap names and to lie about our nationalities... anyone that has been travelling before will understand how boring the 'getting to know you' questions are so we thought we would spice it up a bit.

The lies reached whole new heights. We spent our time passing ourselves off as mother and daughter, claiming that I was 14 and Hannah 32. We managed to meet my step father and birth father and introduce them to each other, whilst also maintaining that we were South African. This is only the half of it really... the more red bull that we drank the worse it got until we basically became ridiculously annoying. But the girls managed to roll with it and it made way for A LOT of giggles and very VERY confused boys which obviously we enjoyed.

So now we're basically looking forward to a bit of a detox now. It will be weird to sit eating breakfast looking out on people that don't look in horrendous amounts of pain with crutches and hangover combined.