Laos - The Place

We found Laos not to be just about the paddling. The weather was hot, really hot, we wore cotton on the river to keep cool but still got worn out quickly. So we found ourselves chilling out more than paddling. Not a problem with freindly locals, more beer than we could drink ... with no hangovers, warm water to swim in and lots of rabies free animals:

Arriving in Vientine, the Capital of Laos

Loading up the boat ready for the relaxing ride to then Cambodian side - home of the big drops

Crusing back to the lodge for beers and food

Freindly locals from our favorite Resturant, Mama Dam the owner is in the middle, Papa Sid her huband in the yellow to the right. This guy is amazing, worth going all that way just to meet him.

Papa Sid callenged Ali to an arm wrestle, Ali won ...

... but Papa Sid easily won the limbo

A local pig who loved belly rubs

Local cats, Mr Clean and the General

Amzing sunsets every evening

Every day we would walk up a different channel and find a new rapid or waterfall, we couldn't belive how good the place was

Laos - The Paddling

So we've just finished a trip to Lao, exploring and paddling the rapids of the Mekong on the Lao-Cambodia border. An abosulutely amazing place, we found new runnable channels each day, from water falls to huge rapids:

Teva Style on one of fun easier rapids

Ali on the Big Slide

Adam coming down the bottom of the Big Slide

Danny on one of the many waterfall channels

Tom running the biggest rapid of the trip, on the last day to show the locals what we were doing

Danny winding through a maze of low volume chutes

Ali on the waterfall Mr Clean, from the top to the bottom in one clean fall

Danny at the top of Mr Clean

Tom on the rapid closest to Cambodia

Danny on the Triple Step, probably the nicest rapid we paddled

The footage will be used for the next film - Revenge of the Fat Cats, out soon!