The rise and fall of Vang Vieng, Laos' notorious party town
Once notorious as a debauched riverside party town, Vang Vieng had cleaned up its act in recent years, but is now in the ...
'I visited Laos methanol poisoning party town and still shudder at the memory'
Vang Vieng in Laos has had a reputation for dangerous partying for over a decade and attempts to reform the town's tourist ...
Alcohol poisoning deaths strikes Laotian backpacker town
Six tourists were killed and scores were injured from mass alcohol poisoning in a little town known as a backpacker paradise ...
Vang Vieng: What to know about the Laos backpacker town at center of suspected methanol poisonings
The deaths of six foreign tourists linked to a suspected mass methanol poisoning has thrown a spotlight on a small town in ...
Sydney Morning Herald6d
In Vang Vieng, tragically, tourist deaths are nothing new
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 ...
Deadly alcohol poisoning casts shadow over the Laotian backpacker town
A little town known as a backpacker paradise in northern Laos has come under spotlight for a mass poisoning case that has ...
BBC4d
The rise and fall of Vang Vieng, Laos' notorious party town
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 ...