This practice is based on being carried away by the force of the current on the inner chamber of a tractor tire along a stretch of 3.5 kilometers of the river as it passes through the town of Vang Vieng in northern region and that it is part of the route taken by tourists visiting the Viet Nam.
A simple look fun if not for many who decide to experience it do so after having consumed alcohol in the bars raised on both sides of the river.
"The problem is this sport risk having consumed alcohol or harder drugs," says Dr. Knott Efe health center of Vang Vieng.
"Every day we look at about ten tourists with different degrees of sprains or bruises," said the doctor.
The companies that organize these declines indicate that it is harmless sport of adventure , but the clinic does not believe as a result of the wounded and caring for trying, unsuccessfully, to save the lives of the odd accident.
Towards noon, young tourists in bathing suit and shirt congregate at the bar output target after crossing a bamboo bridge toll which is required to drink a shot of local firewater.
The output bar is one more of the dozen rooms where participants stand a while to consume alcoholic beverages while continuing the river down.
To have more fun during the breaks along the way, canteens available to participants a mud pools in which they pretend to fight drunk and thrown into the river zip from several meters high.
"It's a unique experience, one goes to his adrenaline with that of jumping into the water from seven meters high," says Bob Brett, a young American visibly affected by alcohol.
Although the river have placed signs indicating the recommended place to take the plunge, there are many who are played by throwing himself from other physical shore sites, some of them doing stunts.
"It reminds me of 'Balconing'" said David Silva , a Spanish tourist who has come to the river attracted by the propaganda about this practice, similar to throwing a pool from a balcony, a trend that has caused several deaths in Spain .
Laos, which during the nineties was a place of stop and bottom of the Western tourism route that ran drug Asia, seeks to promote these alternative risk experience to attract tourism younger.
But even though drug use was forbidden by the bustle of these bars in the route of the "Tubing" is constant and is a major source of income for businesses in the area that is perceived greed for money.
Since the 1990s, Laos began development of the tourism industry to adapt gradually to the mass tourism as a form of income for the rural economy that spans the country and lost their essence minority target.
According to data recorded by the National Tourism Administration of Laos, in 1991 only 5,000 visitors visited the country, while the 2009 figures surpass two million.
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