vang vieng

I arrived at about 2am in the morning, In laos there seems to be a curfew at midnight for tourists and as a result all the guest houses were closed.This is other than one aussy owned guest house (possibly called pans place) that one of the guys on the bus knew about. I tried my ATM card In an ATM to try and pay the guy back for the bus, but it wouldnt work, I showd them I had travelers cheques and they also payed for my bed for a night.
In the morning i went to the bank and got my TC's sorted, payed the guys back and got breakfast. one of the guys recomended seeing a cave with a lying buddah in itso we all shared another tuk tuk and went to see it. It was huge, and probably the best cave ive been in. You walked in to see the lying buddah, this area was huge and impressive, but this was just the mouth. The cave went much further. The australian guy who told us about it said it was about 4k longbut that he had never been to the end of it. We only walked into it for about 15 minutes untill the light from outside was all gone. we used phones and keyring torches to see. there was a river outside that was also cool with a bunch of ropes swings.
On the way back we the tuktuk got stuck in a mud puddle and wouldnt start, but luckily there were six of us in the back and managed to push start it after a couple of minutes.after getting back we got ready for tubing.