Day 1: Arrive Luang Prabang (-/-/-)/ without guide in Luang Prabang
Arrive in Luang Prabang, you will be warmly welcomed by our driver and then get transferred without guide to hotel for checking in.
Meals on your own. Overnight at hotel in Luang Prabang.
Day 2: Luang Prabang – City tour (B/-/-)
An optional early start gives you the fantastic opportunity to participate in the daily morning alms giving ritual to saffron clad monks. This tradition is unique to Laos, being the only Buddhist nation still preserving this procession. Enjoy your UNESCO morning walk to understand insight of this charming then back to hotel for breakfast.
This morning, visit Wat Visoun, the site of impressive Thad Makmo stupa. The rounded dome is stylistically more Sinhalese than Lao. Continue to visit Wat Aham.
Visit Wat Xieng Thong further emphasizes the uniqueness of Luang Prabang, its several roofs sweeping low to the ground. See also the impressive "tree of life" mosaic here. The gilt panel on the exterior of the chapel depicts semi-erotic episodes from the Ramayana.
Then visit the National Museum, explore the city’s fascinating array of shimmering temples and French colonial buildings. After that, visit Wat May built in 1796, the five-tiered roof of the wooden Sim (chapel) epitomizes the graceful Luang Prabang architectural style.
Meals on your own. Overnight at hotel in Luang Prabang.
Day 3: Luang Prabang – Elephant village – Kuang Si Falls (B/-/-)
After breakfast at the hotel, our guide and driver will meet and escort for a 30min drive south of Luang Prabang to the elephant village. Here, you will visit the elephants and then go for a hike (25 mins, one person per elephant, howdah free)
In the afternoon, travelling outskirt of Luang Prabang, driving through green rice paddies and farms. Stop for visit few villages of H’mong and Lao Loum people, your guide can introduce you to local people and its great opportunity for you to involving with their daily activities such as wooden cotton spinning, weaving, rice harvesting and green vegetable farms. On your arrival at the Kuang Si falls, enjoy main waterfalls with spectacular views and surrounding of orchids inside the park and falls cascade over many calcified tiers and down several hundred feet into a series of cool, turquoise pools where you can cool off with a swim. End of your day, transfer back to Luang Prabang.
Meals on your own. Overnight in hotel.
Day 4: Luang Prabang – Departure (B/-/-)/ without guide
After breakfast at the hotel, enjoy your time until transfer without guide to the airport for the flight to your next destination.
