5.10!

Malin, Krishna and Yushan (two girls we met in Vientiane who we've been hanging out with) and I went climbing yesterday (23-05) with Green Discovery, and it was one of the best days I've had so far on this trip. We were with a group of 9 people in total, plus 3 guides and a dog, and it was really good to be climbing outdoors again. The cliff we were at is right on the other side of the river from Vang Vieng, and it was nice because there was something for everyone there. We all got to try all the climbs we wanted, and I got my first 5.10! :)


Today (24-05) Malin wanted to go tubing, but Krishna, Yushan and I weren't that excited about it so we decided to have a long breakfast instead (not watching Friends), and then rent bikes and go look for the blue lagoon.
We never found the "blue" lagoon, but we did have a very fun day.
Krishna started it off by crashing in to a brand new, red and shiny moped parked by the bridge (turned out the bike she got didn't have any breaks). We got sort of lost on a field, stuck in mud and bitten by cave mosqitoes, but it was all fun so we kept going. We figured that anyhow it would be good fun exercise, and though we didn't find a real lagoon we did find something cool at the end. We'd passed two signs along the way that said "natural swimming and jumping", wich we found under a scetchy, very high hand-made bamboo bridge. We also adventured inside a cave, and at the end of it (not very far in), we found a little transparent lake wich was extremely cool and definitely made up for not finding the blue lagoon we had such high expectations of :)