Laos Adventure (11 Days, 10 Nights) - Laos Tours, Laos Holidays

Laos Adventure (11 days – 10 nights)

Day 1 : Luang Prabang Arrival

Arrival in Luang Prabang. Welcome by your guide and then transfer to your hotel for check in. Rest of the day free time at leisure.

Option: 2 hours traditional Lao massage

Overnight in Luang Prabang

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Laos Adventure (11 days – 10 nights)

Day 2 : Luang Prabang – Shangri Lao

8:00 – 8:30 am: Your guide will pick you up at your hotel in Luang Prabang.

Transfer by VIP minibus to the “Shangri-Lao Explorer Camp” 15 km outside Luang Prabang. After arrival you leave your luggage at the reception and get an introductory tour of the camp. Your guide will teach you about elephants, you can talk with our veterinarian, feed the elephants and relax by the riverside.The expedition begins with a 1.5 hour elephant ride through forests and over hills to a hidden valley.After reaching the protected Huay Sae Valley you leave the elephant and enjoy a luxury lunch with traditional Lao food and wine by a secluded waterfall. Depending on the water level you can swim in the natural pools.

Continue with 1.5 hours trekking on foot. The adventurous trail crosses bamboo bridges and passes waterfalls with blue pools in dense jungle. Where the trail leaves the valley, traditional horses from the hill tribes are waiting for you to carry your bags. They will accompany you for another 30 minutes trekking along fields and forest

Down at the Nam Khan River, a luxury bamboo raft is waiting for you. Slowly floating downstream, a relaxing 1.5 hour journey plus an optional 30 min stop at the Tad Sae Waterfall will bring you back to the camp. Have a coffee break, relax and watch the traditional village life of farmers and fishermen along the river.

In the late afternoon you will arrive at the camp where your room is ready for Check In. Spend the rest of the day at the Jacuzzi swimming pool or go for a walk with your guide to visit the local village nearby.

In the evening a delicious barbeque dinner will be served under the starry sky.

Overnight at Shangri Lao Tents.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Laos Adventure (11 days – 10 nights)

Day 3 : Shangri Lao – Nong Kiau

Get up early with the magical sunrise atmosphere and trek to the jungle to collect the elephants from their forest home. Together with the Mahouts, the traditional elephant drivers, you walk back down to the river for their daily morning bath.

After a short Mahout instruction you ride bareback on the elephant’s neck, wash it, scrub it and guide it through the river to the camp – an unforgettable experience of a lifetime.

Take a rest to refresh and enjoy breakfast at the riverside while the sun is slowly rising over the mountains. The remote villages are stirring into life and you can watch the locals punting small boats to their fields, taking the children to school and washing their clothes in the river.

After breakfast your elephant takes you to the Mahout Camp, where you get a glimpse in their life and learn how to train and guide an elephant. With real hands-on experience you can practice how to take off the Howdah seat, climb on the elephant and control it riding bareback on its neck. Your guide will also teach you more about the relationship between Mahouts and elephants. Feed the elephants to say thank you and good bye and return to the camp.

At 12 noon it is time to check out from your room. Have lunch and relax by the riverside.

In the afternoon, you can stroll through the nearby village and visit the small temple with your guide. Experience the local lifestyle in a remote village and learn about the ethnical groups of Laos.

3:30 – 4:00 pm leave the camp and return by VIP minibus, about 40-50 minutes, to Luang Prabang where your guide will drop you off in town at the meeting point.

When in town, your guide will meet you at the meeting point and lead you to Nong Kiau, it will take about 3 hours from the center of Luang Prabang.

Accommodation in Nong Kiau.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Laos Adventure (11 days – 10 nights)

Day 4 : Nong Kiau – Muang La

After your breakfast at hotel, your guide will meet you at the hotel and lead you to Muang La Resort. It takes approximately 3 ½ hours driving (directly) on the north road. Stop en-route to enjoy scenery and natural view along the road. Lunch in Oudomxay by your own expenses.

On arrival check into the resort and after free time at leisure to enjoy resort facilities. Dinner at the restaurant of the resort (included by the resort).

Accommodation in Muang La .

Meals: Breakfast, Dinner

Laos Adventure (11 days – 10 nights)

Day 5 : Muang La

After your breakfast at hotel, your guide will meet you at the hotel. Free time at leisure to enjoy the facilities of the resort.

Option: trek or biking tour for the full day to meet local ethnic groups such as Khamu, Hmong.

Accommodation in Muang La .

Meals: Breakfast, Dinner

Laos Adventure (11 days – 10 nights)

Day 6 : Muang La – Muang Khua – Cruise to Muang Ngoi

After your breakfast at hotel, your guide will meet you at the hotel and lead you to Muang Khua and have lunch, on your own expenses, before cruise down the Ou River to Muang Ngoi.

On arrival check into the guesthouse available in Muang Ngoi, the rest of day is free at leisure.

Accommodation in Muang Ngoi.

Meals: Breakfast

Laos Adventure (11 days – 10 nights)

Day 7 : Muang Ngoi trekking

After breakfast, start a trekking day. This trekking tour offers all the best of soft trekking to see beautiful mountain vistas and rice field. Mountain trial gives all trekkers very good chance to see the most beautiful unspoiled nature, particularly mountain landscape around Muang Ngoi.

It is easy walking through rain forest and rice field, crossing stream to visit caves, villages. Starting at 9:00 Am and begin trekking 30 minutes to visit Tham Kaang, the former sheltering cave for local villagers during Indochina war (1960-1972). This has never damages with beautiful surrounding. After visiting, we will walk to Ban Houay Boor (a village of Khmu and T’ai Deng village), where we will have lunch at villager’s home.

Then we continue trekking to Ban Na (a village of T’ai Deng ethnic group). After working and living condition, we return to Muang Ngoi.

Accommodation in Muang Ngoi.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Laos Adventure (11 days – 10 nights)

Day 8 : Muang Ngoi – Luang Prabang

Enjoy a morning visit to the beautiful small town by your own, morning our guide will pick you up and cruise down to Luang Prabang. Lunch is served on board.

Visit Pak Ou caves on the way down, thousands of gold lacquered Buddha statues are crowded into the two caves carved out of a towering limestone cliff. They range in size from a few centimeters to the size of a human.

The boat arrives Luang Prabang before sunset. On arrival to Luang Prabang enjoy visit to the beautiful Wat Xieng Thong and then transfer to the mount Phousy to enjoy an amazing panoramic view over the town. Then drive to your hotel in town for check in.

Overnight in Luang Prabang.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Laos Adventure (11 days – 10 nights)

Day 9 : Luang Prabang – Kuang Si

An optional early start gives you the fantastic opportunity to participate in the daily morning rituals of saffron-clad monks collecting offerings of Alms (ubiquitous sticky rice) from the faithful residents. This tradition is very unique in Laos, being the only Buddhist nation still preserving the procession.

AM: After breakfast, we enjoy a short-guided tour seeing the city’s oldest temple of Wat Sene and the magnificent Royal palace now transformed into the National Museum (closed on Tuesday). Our stroll will also lead us at Wat Mai.

PM: We continue our excursion toward Khouangsi Waterfall, en route, we visit local villages of Lao ethnic minority groups at Ban Ouay, Hmong Village, Ban Ou, Laoloum Village and Ban Thapene, Khmu Village, then drive to the beautiful Khouangsi Waterfall where you can splash around in the turquoise pools or walk along the forest trails. The Khouangsi Waterfall setting really illustrates paradise. We return to Luang Prabang by late afternoon and continue to Ban Xangkhong, a village well known for silk handweaving and for traditional Saa Paper making. We return to the city by late evening to observe the sunset at Wat Siphouthabath before heading to the Hive Bar for a drink and to have a look over an ethnic fashion show that displays 95 pieces of traditional clothes from hilltribes of Northern Laos.

Overnight in Luang Prabang.

Meals: Breakfast

Laos Adventure (11 days – 10 nights)

Day 10 : Muang Ngoi – Luang Prabang

Breakfast at the hotel.

Enjoy a cooking class in the morning with the visit of local market and taste your own lunch. This activity will afford you to discover the Lao cuisine and ingredients.

In the afternoon Half-Day Dyeing Class: an introduction to all the dye sources. The student prepares 3 dye sources and dyes silk yarns. Take home the results. Sunset drink and view the sunset from the beautiful Mekong River view at Ock Pop Tok. Then visit TAEC (Traditional Arts and Ethnology Center) where the exhibition will provide you more details on hill tribes in Laos and their customs.

End your day by a stroll through the night market that takes place every day from 1600pm in some streets of the town

Overnight in Luang Prabang.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Laos Adventure (11 days – 10 nights)

Day 11 : Departure Luang Prabang

Free time at leisure till your transfer to the airport for your flight to the next destination.

Meals: Breakfast

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CITY  
HOTEL ROOM TYPE
Luang Prabang Villa Saykham Standard
Luang Prabang Shangri Lao Luxury Tent
Nong Kiau Nong Kiau Riverside Standard
Oudomxay Muang La Resort Superior
Muang Ngoi Lattanavongsa Standard

Note : You have chosen to visit some remote areas of Laos where tourism is still in its infancy. We thank you for your open-mindedness and consideration. We are persuaded you will enjoy your time in these little visited parts of our beautiful country. We take this opportunity to inform you that you might occasionally face some situations when you may not be attended in a very professional manner simply because staffs have not necessarily been properly trained. In developing countries, it is an on-going concern which is being addressed by the relevant local and national authorities but we rest assured that tour guide will do his/her utmost to compensate the eventual weaknesses encountered here and there. We thank you for your understanding and look forward to your feedback.

Tour price includes:
  • • Accommodation at selected hotels, based on twin/ double occupancy with daily breakfast. Single occupancy must add the supplement single
  • • Ground transportation in private A/C vehicle
  • • Boat cruise as per mentioned in the program
  • • Activities as mentioned in the itinerary
  • • Meals as indicated on the itinerary (B = Breakfast, L= Lunch, D= Dinner)
  • • English speaking guide (local guide, one guide one place)
  • • All entrance fees as mentioned in the program
  • • All permissions and local taxes
  • • Refreshing tissue during the transfer
Tour price excludes:
  • • Visas and stamps in Laos: visa available at the border (30 US$ to 45 US$ per person depending on nationality, + one passport sized picture + overtime fees; passport must be valid at least 6 months beyond travelling dates. Subject to change without prior notice from local authorities).
  • • Domestics and International flights and taxes
  • • International flights
  • • Drinks, tips, personal expenses (such as internet, laundry, but not limited to)
  • • Travel insurances
  • • Banking fees
  • • Any other services, meals not mentioned in the proposal
  • • Optional tours in the itinerary are subject to be surcharge
  • • Charges incurred as a result of delays beyond the control of Indochina Voyages
  • • Additional charges from hotel during its peak season
Category Price valid from 1st Jan 2014 until 31 Dec 2014
2 3-4 5-6 7-8 SRS
Standard US$ 2,369 US$ 2,086 US$ 2,033 US$ 1,836 US$ 749

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