Tourists prepare to go tubing in Vang Vieng. Photo: Miran Rijavec/FlickR
The lucky escape of a Melbourne woman who could have died tubing in Laos this week has prompted a warning to young travellers to beware the risks of drinking unknown alcohol.
Susie Morris says her daughter, Annika, 19, needed to be pulled to the side of a river in Vang Vieng on Monday after falling desperately unwell. She had preivously taken a shot of locally-made whisky before getting in a tractor tyre tube and riding it down the river.
Dr Morris told Fairfax Media that Annika became so unwell she lost sight and nearly fell unconscious while on the river, and later stopped breathing after her travel companion had taken her to town.
