Grand Tour Laos – 7 Days

Arrivo a Huay Xai and boarding at 09:00 o”clock on the river boat for our journey to Pakbeng. Along the route, the banks offer countless opportunities to see the life of the local people. Arrival at Pakbeng at sunset. Lunch buffet on board, Dinner on a terrace along teh shore of the Mekong.

After breakfast it will be possible to visit the market of Pakbeng, where the people of the ethnic minority are coming to sell their product from the mountains. At 08:30 departure of the second part of the cruise, short stop to a Hmong village. Where the river gets narrow, the cliff conceals the famous Pak Ou Cave that during the century the faith of people fills it with sacred image of the Buddha. Before reaching Luang Pra bang we will stop to a village where the traditional distillation of the rice alcohol is still practice. Arrive at Luang Pra Bang during sunset. Lunch on board Dinner in Hotel

Half Day visit of Kuong Si Waterfall – Excursion by the road that take us to the most suggestive place around Luang Prabang . Even if the tourism already arrives, the beauty and the ancestral charm of the life stile of the ethnic minorities of the mountain still offer incredible emotion. The famous Hmong, untiring warrior and poppy cultivator they left their tradition but still keep their fierce behavior. The Natural Park of Kuong Si waterfall it falls on limestone cliff formations and then rest its sudden start in turquoise river basins which give life to one of the fascinating panoramas in Laos. The particularity” of this place is given by the impetuosity of the water fall and by the calm of the nature that surround. Half Day Visit Temple – Still are more than 30 temple from which is possible fir each traveler to feel the mystic- spiritual: within the many there are Vat Visoun, Vat Sené, Vat Xieng Thong. To admire the soft color of the sun set is possible to reach Vat Chom Si on the Phu Si hill, the sacred hill from which is possible to dominate all the view of Luang Pra Bang.Lunch Pic Nic and Dinner in Hotel

Half day visit ‘Alms & National Museum’ For who is interested is possible to weak up before and go to admire the famous monk Alms- every morning ‘since always’ 250 monks together with their chief Khamjan, are walking around the city and receive the alms from the worships – back to hotel for break fast – visit of National Museum built in 1904 to be the Royal Palace, nowadays shows a rich collection of items of all kinds belonging to the Royal Family, especially il Phra Bang, Statue in gold ,tall 83 centimeter that following the tradition is the symbol of Lane Xang reign since XIII century . Transfer by flight to Vientiane. Half day visit temple- Visit of the main temple: Patuxai, “Victory Gate”the gigantic Arch which commemorates the independence, called Anusawaree by the locals. Proceed then with visit of the most sacred place of all Laos, That Luang huge stupa, which is said contain the reliquary of Buddha, the tradition believe that has been taken in Laos during the III century before Christ. In the heart of the city there is the ancient Vat Si Sa Ket which contain more than two thousand images of Buddha, is believed that these images protect the Vat from the terrible destruction made by the Siamese military in 1828. On the other side of the road we find the Ho Pra Kheo, Museum of religious art, characterized by the many bronze Buddha statues. Lunch in Typical restaurant and Dinner in Hotel

Transfer to the airport. Flight to Pakse and transfer to the hotel. Full-day visit of Bolaven plateau., the region of coffee plantation, of the green forest and the amazing waterfall, where many ethnic community of mon-khemr are still leaving. Is possible to visit Alak, Nghe’ and Suei village which have all the same characteristic of building the hut in round and at the center is built a temple of genius with the sacrificial pole of the buffalo. They are still leaving with their ancestral costume, cultivating the land with the same instrument used by their ancestor and the elephant is still their companion of job and hunting. Lunch in typical restaurant and Dinner in Hotel. Overnight in a clean and very simple hotel.

Half day visit of Vat Phu – Transfer to Champasak by the left shore of the Mekong. At 8 km from the city is rising a mountain high 1416 meters and ending with a shape that resemble a sacred linga . It is an ancient place of cult of the mountain genius and of the spirit of the water, it has been choused already in VI century by the Khmer of the Cenla reign to build a temple in honor of Shiva . They call it Vat Phu, the Temple [ Vat] of he mountain [Phu=Phnom]. The emperors of Angkor considered it their “dynastic temple”. Jayavarman IV star the works in the first half of X century and today we still see the vestige of the past , A “ scared road” long 800 meters which goes from the artificial basin of 180 meter per 600 meters passing through two big sanctuary with rectangular base, until the top located at 70 meter high from the plain where is built the temple, where in the past was kept a sacred gold linga. The visit of the site is a discovery of statues or huge bass relieves carved in the rock and surrounded by a wild nature. Half day visit of Mekong – The magic goes until the shores of the river, where the Mekong enlarge to contain the Deng island where the inhabitants survive with fishing and tropical cultivation. Proceed to the South until the Don Khong Island, big island where the time seems to be stopped in the past. Lunch in typical restaurant and Dinner in Hotel. Overnight at clean and very simple hotel.

Pass by the Mekong river in one of the most suggestive and beautiful Indochinese scenario. Here is still possible to feel the “colonial” past, the adventurous exploring travels on the Mekong of the eighteen Century. The nature defend it self from the attack of the modernity and keep its original beauty . The powerful water, not yet polluted, is the perfect environment for the rare sweet water dolphins. The Mekong proceed from Laos to Cambodia with the spectacular Pha Peng waterfall, so huge that many named them the “east Niagara Falls” . Transfer Lao/Cambodia border

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