Once notorious as a debauched riverside party town, Vang Vieng had cleaned up its act in recent years, but is now in the ...
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The deaths of six foreign tourists linked to a suspected mass methanol poisoning has thrown a spotlight on a small town in ...
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 ...
Laotian authorities have been working to rid the town of its deadly reputation. Clearly, they haven’t worked hard enough.
Out on the river there is little sign that the poisonings are stopping people coming to Vang Vieng. Late November is peak ...
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 ...
Vang Vieng, once famous for its raucous parties, has weathered various scandals over the years. The town was in the past ...
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 ...
The safety measures around the river tubing clearly did not extend more widely. Recent reviews of Vang Vieng suggest that despite this attempt to clean up its image, the reputation as a hard ...
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