Up early, brekka get tubes and we are heading out for a day of booze and tubing. Its also Australia day so the Aussies are out in force and everyone is made up. I'm sporting my Beer Lao vest and a smart new pair of boardies I picked up in the market.
We get up stream along the road by tuktuk in about 20 mins and are greeted by some people offering Mojitos for charity. Well Diane is straight into that action and i'm hot on her heels. We've now heard all the stories about the 20 m trapeze and zip line into the river and a bit of fire in the belly is needed. We can hear the music banging at the first watering hole and so step gingerly into the cool river to start.
This is a riot, 10meters down stream the bar staff throw a line out with which they haul you into the bar, a bamboo construction on stilts, its hot, crowded, the beer lao is flowing and everyone is just loving it. Me and Di pile on and meet friends and get the beers in. The river channels into a deep stretch and a large tree leads up to the first swing. You grab the swing, take a deep breath, leap into the air and scream, swing out over the river and let go at the top to fall into the drink. Yeee haaa its fantastic, everyone shouting, cheering and dancing around. I crawl back onto the platform stoked and have anothe beer :) Diane is lookin a little edgy by this time, like a rabbit in the head lights. Fair play.... a bit of nerves and she climbs upto the top, grabs the bar and leaps out over the river. So funny.... instead of swinging to the top Di lets go at full bore speed at the bottom of the swing and drills into the water at about 40mph. She comes up smiling though and got a huge cheer from the crowd. Some of the pro's are doing somersaults, real sportsmen ! We head off down the river to the next bar and the zip wire. On this particular jump one or two people grab the handles and slide down the wire, three quarters of the way down, the slide hits a back stop and the happy punters are immediately somersaulted into the water !! I,m like 'Diane theres just no way, no way on earth - its too dangerous' ..................2 beers later we,re climbing the ladder, just relax sweetheart it,ll be fine. We get to the top and grab the handles, i look at Diane and we,re both smiling, off we go, oh my god just relax i shout. Wallop we hit the backstop and somersault into the drink. Laughing and shouting we swim back to the bar. And so it went for the next 3 hours until we emerged drunk and happy. The last couple of KM we just drifted down stream.
We get up stream along the road by tuktuk in about 20 mins and are greeted by some people offering Mojitos for charity. Well Diane is straight into that action and i'm hot on her heels. We've now heard all the stories about the 20 m trapeze and zip line into the river and a bit of fire in the belly is needed. We can hear the music banging at the first watering hole and so step gingerly into the cool river to start.
This is a riot, 10meters down stream the bar staff throw a line out with which they haul you into the bar, a bamboo construction on stilts, its hot, crowded, the beer lao is flowing and everyone is just loving it. Me and Di pile on and meet friends and get the beers in. The river channels into a deep stretch and a large tree leads up to the first swing. You grab the swing, take a deep breath, leap into the air and scream, swing out over the river and let go at the top to fall into the drink. Yeee haaa its fantastic, everyone shouting, cheering and dancing around. I crawl back onto the platform stoked and have anothe beer :) Diane is lookin a little edgy by this time, like a rabbit in the head lights. Fair play.... a bit of nerves and she climbs upto the top, grabs the bar and leaps out over the river. So funny.... instead of swinging to the top Di lets go at full bore speed at the bottom of the swing and drills into the water at about 40mph. She comes up smiling though and got a huge cheer from the crowd. Some of the pro's are doing somersaults, real sportsmen ! We head off down the river to the next bar and the zip wire. On this particular jump one or two people grab the handles and slide down the wire, three quarters of the way down, the slide hits a back stop and the happy punters are immediately somersaulted into the water !! I,m like 'Diane theres just no way, no way on earth - its too dangerous' ..................2 beers later we,re climbing the ladder, just relax sweetheart it,ll be fine. We get to the top and grab the handles, i look at Diane and we,re both smiling, off we go, oh my god just relax i shout. Wallop we hit the backstop and somersault into the drink. Laughing and shouting we swim back to the bar. And so it went for the next 3 hours until we emerged drunk and happy. The last couple of KM we just drifted down stream.
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