Inside the wild nights at Jaidee Bar VV and Nana Backpackers Hostel Vientiane, where tourists, Australian and British, were 'poisoned'. Simone White, 28, from Orpington in Kent, is the fifth tourist to have passed away after falling dangerously ill.
But Laos has become increasingly popular with tourists, including Western backpackers, and that popularity has come at a price.
It is Vang Vieng's second taste of notoriety. The town previously hit world headlines in 2011 for tourist deaths while 'tubing', riding in an inflated tractor tyre inner tube down the Nam Song river. Methanol poisoning victims, Bianca Jones, who has sadly died, and her friend Holly Bowles , who is fighting for her life in hospital, were seen at Jaidee's Bar in Vang Vieng just hours before being rushed to hospital
Vang Vieng - a four-hour bus journey from Laos' capital Vientiane - became so popular that at one stage backpackers outnumbered locals by around three to one. British tourist Benjamin Light, 23, from Bournemouth, drowned after jumping into the river from a rope swing during a tubing trip. WhatsApp messages have since disclosed the pair then left the hostel and travelled 950m to the beachfront barSimone White, 28, from Orpington in Kent, is the fifth tourist to have died after falling ill last weekHe managed to stand up but then immediately fell backwards and his eyes 'rolled back' and he could not be resuscitated.
'Waiting to embrace them were streets crammed with noisy bars and restaurants offering cheap drinks; 'happy' menus full of marijuana, magic mushrooms, and opium in a variety of forms.' The clampdown was hailed as a success, and record numbers of tourists continued to visit, without the lure of 24-hour partying and tubing.
Overall, crime rates rose by 28 percent in 2022, with drug-related crime accounting for almost two-thirds of all cases.Hostel manager and bartender Duong Duc Toan , has claimed it wasn't his Tiger Vodka that made the girls sick
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