Express hitchhiking from Vang Vieng (Laos) to Krabi (Thailand)

2 days in Vang Vieng was enough. First day I even had some climbing on Sleeping wall, but it started to rain soon, so it was 2 or 3 routes only..... and yeah, rope rental was too expensive to repeat it next day. At least my climbing partner was cool.... a guy from Israel who was also missing climbing. We met randomly in a bus from Luang Phrabang to Vang Vieng.

2nd day i tried to find another wall, but it was located wrong in 27 crags (a website for climbers). So i ended up in army gordon.... I walked back to town where I met two french hitchhikers who had made all the way through Europe, Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and China by hitching. We went to rice fields to get lost, had a beer an played football on old airport area with a group of local guys.

rice field, Rafael and Clement

At night i met mostly people who had came there only to get drunk of free drinks that are offered during happy hours in bars. Thats what they come to do in Vang Vieng. Its mainly party town..... happy pancakes (they put some mushrooms into pancakes, so if you eat them, you will maybe get high... who knows...). I have different method to get high -  climbing of course 😂.

Next morning i started to hitch towards the capital of Laos - Vientiane.

It was first time when I got a ride easily in Laos. Directly to Vientiane. After some km of ride there was an other hitchhiker and driver picked up also him. A russian guy doing trip around the world by hitching.

Night in Vientiane, some karaoke with locals, a lot of good spicy food and back to road again. Just 20 kms to border of Thailand.

For evening i got to Suburbs of Bangkok, then it got harder. There were only taxis. After 5  kms of walking one motorbike picked me up and took to center of the city. How to get out? Walking, another motorbike, police and bus station. A bus to Pecheburi and hitch the road again. Long day on the road. I was picked up quite fast but people tend to move only 20-30km distances on the rosd to Krabi, so i needed to change cars many times... 10 timews approximately.
I was lucky. just before getting dark i was picked up by Kae who also hosted me in Phangnga, 100 km from my destination Tonsai.... and next morning she took me to the port where there are boats going to Railey beach  which is only 1 km from Tonsai.

monkey

another monkey, called Boris

try to protect your food, or...

So it was 3 days from Vang Vieng to Tonsai. quite good for SE Asia.

actually there were many interesting and weird things that hapened to me on the road, but i am just too lazy to write about it now.  I am in climbing paradise where i will stay next 25 days and deffinitely i am not going to spend itby writing..... but now its raining and storm is coming, so i even dont know if we can go climbing tomorrow...