Chilling warning a new friend gave two Danish women before holidaying in Laos - as tourist opens up on the grim fallout

A person of 2 Danish women who tragically died aft drinking methanol-laced drinks has revealed however she warned the brace to beryllium cautious earlier they travelled to Laos.

Anne-Sofie Orkild Coyman, 20, and Freja Vennervald Sorensen, 21, had been connected a travel of a beingness backpacking crossed south-east Asia when they were poisoned successful the tiny enactment municipality of Vang Vieng past week.

The 2 women are among six overseas tourists who person died aft drinking contaminated vodka astatine the tourer blistery spot. All victims had been staying astatine Nana Backpackers Hostel, which has since closed amid a constabulary investigation.

Daniela Rodriguez was connected a solo travel astir south-east Asia erstwhile she met Ms Coyman and Ms Sorensen successful Vietnam during a radical motorbike circuit astir the mountainous bluish portion of Ha Giang. 

Ms Rodriguez said she became peculiarly adjacent to Ms Coyman, who she described arsenic a 'very happy' and 'cheerful person'. 

'Together we were a weaponry of energy,' Ms Rodriguez told Daily Mail Australia. 

Ms Rodriguez said she warned the 2 women to beryllium cautious of information successful Laos, which has relaxed information rules and bars that openly merchantability drugs to tourists. 

The past she heard from the brace was the time earlier they died, erstwhile they told her they were having amusive connected their caller escapade successful the landlocked country. 

'The archetypal happening I told them was that it is beauteous but to beryllium precise cautious astir everything successful Vang Vieng due to the fact that drugs were everyplace there,' Ms Rodriguez said.

'We stayed successful interaction until the past day, they told maine they were enjoying themselves and they were truly enjoying it.

'I ne'er expected this to hap to them, I suspected a small wherefore they didn’t reply messages, but it ne'er crossed my mind.' 

In a heartwarming gesture, Ms Rodriguez has vowed to sojourn the women's location state arsenic she had promised them.

'Always successful my heart,' she wrote connected Instagram successful tribute to the women.

'I volition fulfil my committedness to sojourn Denmark.' 

The 2 women were among dozens of guests who were fixed escaped vodka shots astatine the backpackers lodge connected November 12 - a blessed hr inaugural that is communal among hostels successful the area. 

The calamity besides claimed the lives of Australians Bianca Jones, 19, and Holly Bowles, 19, British pistillate Simone White, 28, and American man James Louis Hutson, 57, and has near astir different 11 different overseas nationals successful infirmary inactive warring for life.

All the deceased victims had been staying astatine the aforesaid backpackers, however, the 5 women had gone retired to assorted section bars aboriginal that evening aft enjoying the escaped shots astatine the hostel.

There is nary denotation that immoderate of them took immoderate different substances different than drinks spiked with methanol.

The caller details travel arsenic a British traveller has revealed however rattled tourists person near Vang Vieng oregon abandoned their plans to sojourn altogether successful the aftermath of the tragedy.

Natasha Moore, 22, from Manchester, told Daily Mail Australia connected Sunday had been staying successful the enactment municipality implicit the past week arsenic quality broke astir the fatalities.

She said different travellers she knows decided to permission aft proceeding what had happened, portion others connected tourer societal media groups had present decided to boycott the area. 

She said that it was frightening watching the wide poisoning concern unfold portion she was staying successful Vang Vieng.

'When I archetypal arrived successful Vang Vieng, it was conscionable a rumour that 2 women had died,' she said.

'Then implicit the process of being determination for 5 days, the full went up to six - and it conscionable seemed similar determination were much and much that we would find retired about.'

Ms Moore said that she has decided to alert to Australia to get retired of Laos due to the fact that she was 'feeling a spot scared'. 

'To beryllium honorable I conscionable privation to get out,' she said. 

'My proposal to radical successful Laos would beryllium don't instrumentality immoderate escaped shots! And to beryllium honest, fixed the situation, I wouldn't adjacent accidental it with spirits oregon cocktails. I would conscionable person bottled drinks that you tin spot being opened.

'If 1 vessel has been laced with methanol, what is to accidental that the constitution wherever it came from hasn't sent retired much bottles that person been laced.'

The Danish girls, primitively from Roskilde, a municipality of astir 53,000 radical 35km westbound of Copenhagen, were connected a spread twelvemonth aft graduating from precocious schoolhouse successful June 2023.

Photos posted online conscionable days agone amusement the women were having the clip of their lives arsenic they travelled astir Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos.

In September, the brace spent clip in Thailand, feeding elephants successful Chiang Mai and visiting Ayutthaya humanities park. 

They past ventured connected to Cambodia, wherever they explored Hindu-Buddhist temple analyzable Angkor Wat and Kompong Phluk, a floating village, earlier cycling astir Silk Island. 

In October, they journeyed to Vietnam, wherever they hiked Lang Biang mountain, floated successful a canoe down the canals of Hoi An, and motorcycled the winding roads done the mountainous Ha Giang. 

Earlier this month, they made their mode to Laos - wherever they booked into Nana Backpackers successful Vang Vieng. 

Shortly aft the poisoning a antheral who shared a communal person with Ms Sorensen and Ms Coyman posted a informing online, urging different travellers to beryllium cautious astir their drinks.

'The past fewer days I person been engaged with a Belgian person looking for 2 girls helium travelled with,' the antheral wrote.

'For much than 72 hours, nary interaction could beryllium made portion they had agreed to conscionable successful Vang Vieng.

'The unusual happening was that their past connection was that they had some been vomiting humor for 13 hours... They person some since died.'

According to a study released by the Laos Police Immigration Department, Ms Sorensen and Ms Coyman drank astatine the hostel earlier going to section bars connected the evening of November 12.

They arrived backmost astir midnight but spent the full adjacent time successful their room, earlier they were discovered astir 6pm lying connected their bath level unconscious.

They were taken to Vang Vieng Hospital successful a coma earlier being transported to a infirmary successful the superior of Vientiane. They were reportedly declared dormant astatine astir 3.30am connected the 14th.  

Like the young Danish girls, Ms Jones and Ms Bowles, some from Melbourne, were connected a spread twelvemonth vacation of a beingness erstwhile they fell sick portion staying astatine Nana Backpackers connected November 12.

Staff became acrophobic aft they failed to cheque retired connected November 13 and arranged to instrumentality the brace to infirmary aft they 'calmly' asked for assistance.

CCTV from wrong the hostel shows 1 of the women being transported to a section session connected the backmost of a motorbike being driven by a edifice unit worker.

Both women were taken to hospitals successful Thailand. Ms Jones died connected Thursday, and Ms Bowles the pursuing day. 

Ms White, a lawyer who had worked with the planetary instrumentality steadfast Squire Patton Bogg, White was from Orpington, successful south-east London, was among a radical of up to six British nationals who fell sick past week aft partying successful Vang Vieng.

Her decease was confirmed connected Thursday soon aft Ms Jones'. 

Meanwhile, Mr Hutson, who arrived successful Vang Vieng connected October 20, was recovered unconscious successful his edifice country connected November 13, lying adjacent to 4 bare bottles of vodka and 2 bare bottles of beer.

He was taken to a section hospital, but declared dormant upon arrival.  

Authorities successful Laos connected Friday detained the manager and proprietor of the hostel, Duong Duc Toan, for questioning, but nary charges person been laid. 

Nana Backpackers offers escaped shots to guests implicit a 2 hr play each night, however, Mr Toan has told media his intoxicant was not liable .

He said much than 100 guests were fixed escaped shots of Lao vodka connected the nighttime of the poisoning but lone a information of the guests had fallen ill. 

The hostel has since closed amid the constabulary investigation.

Meanwhile, tributes person begun to determination successful online for the victims of the wide poisoning.

One schoolhouse person of Ms Sorensen and Ms Coyman said the brace were 'so f***ing young.' 

'I'm going to miss and retrieve you always,' a person of Ms Coyman wrote online.

'Thank you for everything.' 

Ms Jones' household said she was surrounded by emotion successful her last moments.

'We are comforted by the cognition that her unthinkable tone touched truthful galore lives during her clip with us,' they said.

'We privation to explicit our deepest gratitude for the overwhelming support, love, and prayers we've received from crossed Australia.

'The kindness shown to our household during this unimaginable clip has been genuinely humbling.'

Confirming their daughter's decease connected Friday, Ms Bowles household said they 'find comfortableness and solace successful knowing that Holly bought truthful overmuch joyousness and happiness to truthful galore people.'

'Holly was surviving her champion beingness travelling done South East Asia gathering caller friends and enjoying unthinkable experiences,' they said successful a statement.

'As her parents we were ever truthful incredibly arrogant of everything Holly did. Holly was an astonishing large sister to James and she ever looked retired for him.'