Once notorious as a debauched riverside party town, Vang Vieng had cleaned up its act in recent years, but is now in the ...

Vang Vieng, a town of around 25,000 people on ... themselves off ramshackle rope swings and slides overhanging the river. The tubing practice supposedly originated in 1999 with a local farmer ...

Six tourists were killed and scores were injured from mass alcohol poisoning in a little town known as a backpacker paradise ...

Laotian authorities have been working to rid the town of its deadly reputation. Clearly, they haven’t worked hard enough.

An illegal trade in alcohol and drugs, and lax policing, made last week’s tragic deaths in Vang Vieng inevitable ...

Out on the river there is little sign that the poisonings are stopping people coming to Vang Vieng. Late November is peak ...

The death of six foreigners in Vang Vieng threatens to undermine the government’s desperate attempts to revive its tourism ...

Even tubing was made safer. But Vang Vieng’s reputation as a party town ... Bar staff still fished for tourists coming down the river on tubes, but signs in the town warned visitors about ...

As backpackers started flocking to Vang Vieng in the 1990s, the Nam Song river became a destination for ‘tipsy tubing’ Credit: Getty At the same time, the town has diversified its tourist ...

As backpackers started flocking to Vang Vieng in the 1990s, the Nam Song river became a destination for ‘tipsy tubing’ - Getty Before 2012 there were countless bars along the river all ...