Laos has tried to rebrand Vang Vieng as less of a party destination. In 2012, the government closed down many of the cheap bars that catered to the backpacker crowd and pivoted toward becoming ...

Getting Around Vang Vieng. The compact size of Vang Vieng makes it easy to navigate on foot, especially if you're staying in town and planning to explore the local bars, restaurants, and shops.

Laos has tried to rebrand Vang Vieng as less of a party destination. In 2012, the government closed down many of the cheap bars that catered to the backpacker crowd and pivoted toward becoming ...

But Vang Vieng has seen a tumultuous 15 years, evolving from an agricultural community to a hedonistic party capital when it was “discovered” by Western shoestring travelers in the late 1990s.

In 2011, Vang Vieng’s hospital recorded 27 tourist deaths. In 2012, Melbourne teen Daniel Eimutis died while zip-lining along the river. He went underwater and never resurfaced.

Once notorious as a debauched riverside party town, Vang Vieng had cleaned up its act in recent years, but is now in the headlines for all the wrong reasons once again.

In the scruffy Laotian town of Vang Vieng, there's only one statistic that matters. It has been more than three years since the last death on the river. From the waitress in the riverside bar, to ...

In Vang Vieng, tragically, tourist deaths are nothing new. Jimmy Thomson Columnist. November 24, 2024 — 1.30pm. November 24, 2024 — 1.30pm. Save. Log in, register or subscribe to save articles ...

Australia said "several foreign nationals" had also been victims of methanol poisoning. The U.S. State Department confirmed that an American had also died in Vang Vieng.