riverside

Vang Vieng, a small riverside town in central Laos known for its party scene, has long attracted backpackers travelling across Southeast Asia.

Fancy new hotels are springing up with riverside cocktail bars and infinity pools.

“To combat the river tubing deaths they demolished a bunch of the riverside bars that were selling buckets of vodka to people floating by,” one Western diplomat in the region told the BBC.

“It has brought a lot of consequences… the absence of food on the riverside dwellers’ table.

Accompanied by a troupe of eight dancers carrying pink-feather fans and clad in custom Dior costumes, Gaga sang in French and danced, ascending and descending a riverside flight of stairs during the upbeat, cabaret-inspired performance.