VANG VIENG: A HEDONISTIC BACKPACKER town REBORN
Updated: 03/17/20 | March 17th, 2020 As I tubed down the slow river back into town, all around me were signs of a previous era: zip lines and rope swings sitting unused, bars long ago boarded up, and fading signs advertising cheap drinks. Vang Vieng’s riverbank was a pointer of the town’s recent past, like…