It was so cold in the early morning. The weather reported that the lowest temperature for a day is 9C around 7am. We wake up late as we feel like don't want to wake up. After had simple included breakfast at the hostel, we rent the motorbike.
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| Included Breakfast from the hostel |
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| Scooter Rental, 50,000kip/day. This scooter look futuristic |
1000 - First station is to go to Tham Chang Cave which is near to our hostel. This cave is operated by Vang Vieng Resurt. Before getting to this cave entrance, we need to passed through this resort and pay for 2,000kip/person and 3,000kip/motorbike. After walking through the suspension bridge, we only paid for the cave entrance fee which is 15,000kip/adult. This cave is quite a tourist place as there are a lot of tourists when we went there. This cave have well pathed route and good facilities too. However, it is a amazing cave as the cave is quite huge.
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| Bridge to Tham Chang |
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| Entrance fee |
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| View after climb the staircase to the cave entrance |
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| This cave is huge |
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| Another viewpoint from the cave |
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| Look like hands |
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| The end of the cave |
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| Looks like knife |
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| Big centipede found |
1200 - After leaving the cave, we had the lunch at a restaurant where we found the fruit shake only cost 5,000kip!
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| Fruit shake, 5,000kip each |
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| Rice noodle soup with pork, 15,000kip |
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| Pineapple fried rice, 20,000kip |
1300 - Crossing the river, we took the smaller bridge near the north side which is free to cross. The next location is Pha Ngeun Peak. This peak has a nice panoramic view of Vang Vieng Town. The entrance fee is 10,000kip. We took 45 minutes to climb to the top from the counter ticket. The climbing difficulty is moderate but it will be slippery when raining. Once we get to the top, there is a small hut selling some snack and food! The view at the top is really amazing too!
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| To the Pha Ngeun peak |
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| Half way.. |
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| The rest station for the last 150m |
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| The view when almost reach the top |
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| The food and snack stall at the peak |
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| Amazing view at the peak! |
1530 - Left the Pha Ngeun and departed to our last location which is Blue Lagoon 3. We didn't go to Blue Lagoon 1 because it is too many people and tourists. Hence we chose to go to the further lagoon. After few km of pathed road, the last 10km road is unpaved rocky and sandy rock. Once the truck or buggy travelled from opposite direction, it is nearly cannot see the road in front as the sand is in the air! It was a tired ride too as need to go through an half hour bumpy ride. The entrance fee of this lagoon is 10,000kip/person. There is free tubing to use here. The temperature at that time was only 21C. I just did the swing for 5 times and left the lagoon as it was really cool! Lucky that there was fire setting to warm the body!
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| Free tubing in the lagoon |
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| Swing to the lagoon |
1700 - Left the lagoon. The temperature is getting cooler. My hand was like almost freeze when riding on the road. Once get back to the hostel, we bath and change some thick clothes. Then had our dinner.
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| Chicken sandwish, 10,000kip |
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| Rice noodle soup with chicken 15,000kip. Soup again because it was too cold at night |
Our Expenses (000kip)
Motorbike : 50
Fuel : 10
Tham Chang : 37
Lunch : 45
Pha Ngeun : 20
Blue Lagoon 3 : 20
Dinner : 25
Internet data : 10
Laundry : 24
Accommodation : 80
TOTAL : 301
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