8 Days 7 Nights Best of Laos
Highlights
DRAFT ITINERARY:
Day 01: Vientiane – Arrival
Day 02: Vientiane – Full day City tour
Day 03: Vientiane – Buddaha Park
Day 04: Vientiane Luangprabang
Day 05: Luangprabang – Pak Ou Cave
Day 06: Luangprabang – Kuangsi Fall
Day 07: Luangprabang – Alms giving
Day 08: Luangprabang – Departure
Description
Inclusions
o Accommodation at hotel based on a shared Twin/Double room
o Air-conditioned transportation
o Meal mention (B=Breakfast, L=Lunch, D=Dinner)
o Sight-seeing as the itinerary including admission fee
o Local English speaking guide
o Private Baci Ceremony
Exclusions
o Bottle of drinking water beyond that supplied
o Any other beverages
o Any gratuities
o Personal expenses
o Visa to Laos
o Airfares (international and domestic)
o Meals (other than mentioned in the program)
o Airport taxes
o Early check in or late check out
o Insurances
o Optional excursions and activities
o Additional transfer required due to any emergency situation
o Items of a personal nature (Phone calls, laundry, beverages...)
o Peak season surcharges if any
o All not mentioned above
Remark
❖ All the above points of interest are open for visit based on current updating. In case of closing for
construction or any reason, we will replace with similar point of interest
❖ Above itinerary is based on current checking of flight schedule. In case of flight change, the itinerary
will be changed accordingly.
❖ No early check in or late check out are included except indicated in the program. Generally, the
check in time is 14.00pm/15 :00 and check out time is 12.00pm
❖ Visa into Vietnam is required except for countries where we sign the contract on visa exemption. Pls
contact us for visa information details
Itinerary
DAY 01: VIENTIANE - ARRIVAL (-/-/-)
On arrival at Wattay International Airport, you will be met by our representative and transferred to
your hotel. Free at leisure.
Overnight in Vientiane
DAY 02: VIENTIANE - CITY TOUR (B/-/-)
Full day city tour of Vientiane, after breakfast our guide and driver pick up you at hotel and transfer to visit Wat Prakeo (the original home of the emerald Buddha) , Wat Sisaket (the house of thousand Buddha images).
In the afternoon, visit Anousavari (Vientiane’s own Arc de Triomphe), Pra thatluang stupa (the stupa that kept the relic of Lord Buddha) and followed by shopping at Morning Market. Return back to your hotel.
Overnight in Vientiane
DAY 03: VIENTIANE – BUDDHA PARK (B/-/-)
After breakfast we visit drive out of town along the Mekong River towards the south via the Friendship Bridge to the extraordinary Buddha Park. We suggest an evening stroll along the banks of the Mekong to catch the sunset and dinner in one of the riverside cafes where you can sample weird and wonderful dishes such as deep fried crickets.
Free at leisure in afternoon at hotel.
Overnight Vientiane
DAY 04: VIENTIANE – FLIGHT LUANGPRABANG (B/-/-)
After an early breakfast, free leisure and our guide and driver transfer to airport to north flight to Luangprabang take 30-40minutes. Arrival in Luangprabang, Luang Prabang is perhaps the best-preserved traditional city in Southeast Asia. The tranquility and charm of this town with its splendid natural scenery and cultural sights make it one of the most delightful places to visit in Laos. Our English speaking guide Pick up at airport transfer to hotel. Free at leisure at hotel.
Overnight Luang Prabang
DAY 05: LUANGPRABANG - CITY TOUR – PAK OU CAVE - BACI CERYMONY (B/-/-)
After breakfast, then embark for a slow boat trip to Pak Ou cave 32km up river and along the way make to the cave where a thousand Buddha figures are kept. Along the way we have provide snack and juice on boat you can enjoy and then return back downstream to Luang Prabang.
In the afternoon we visit Traditional art center and then visit Wat Xieng Thong, the Golden City Monastery, which dates back to the 16th century and is considered to be the finest in Laos The many items nicely displayed include rare furniture, traditional costumes and arts, jewelry, ornaments as well as working tools and utensils of the early part of the 20th century.
In later afternoon 5:00PM we transfer to visit local family house for private Baci ceremony. Baci is a ceremony to celebrate a special event, whether a marriage, a homecoming, a welcome, a birth, or one of the annual festivals. A mother is given a baci after she has recovered form a birth, the sick are given bacis to facilitate a cure, officials are honored by bacis, and novice monks are wished luck with a baci before entering the temple. The term more commonly used is su kwan, which means “calling of the soul”.
Return back to hotel free leisure.
Overnight in Luangprabang
DAY 06: LUANGPRABANG- KUANGSI FALL – CITY TOUR (B/-/-)
After breakfast, our guide and driver pick you transfer visit KuangSi Waterfall, and where you will enjoy overlooking the beautiful multi-tiered falls. You also have the opportunity to cool off in the turquoise blue pools.
Afterwards you return to Luang Prabang on the way we stop visit Buffalo Daily farm, kid can pay and enjoy with cuddle up to our beautiful buffalos at 450 kilos or feed Ferdinand, the friendly buffalo at just 750 Kilos! They love to eat, not only grass but bananas as well, after eating, our buffalo’s next favorite activity is having a bath. You’ll get to wash them and give them a scrub. It’s like a “day spa” for buffalo and Hands on milking demonstration! Learn how to milk a buffalo and why buffalo milk is so good for you. The Buffalo may be the stars of the show but our playful pigs, cheeky chickens and rollicking rabbits are also plenty of fun for the young and young at heart! And return to Luangprabang. In late evening, free leisure at hotel.
Overnight in Luangprabang
DAY 07: LUANGPRABANG - ALMS – GIVING - MEDITATIO - CITY TOUR (B/-/-)
Early start! (5:30Am) by car to Ban Vat sean to watch and give food to the monks as a long line of monks collecting alms’s ceremony. Return back to have breakfast at hotel.
After breakfast, we transfer to visit Wat Pa Phai temple, it has nice paintings describing western merchants and long beard man then mover on to visit a sénior monk learn the are of meditation then practice mediating with a zen Buddhist and get an experience cultural enlightenment as you witness the habits of the monhs, you are free to ask the monk any questions about Buddhism and followed by giving offferings to a senior monk.
And then in late afternoon we visit visit Wat Mai temple. Continue our tour by walking down to Royal Palace. In afternoon we are visiting Wat Visoun, then Wat Aham and climb up to visit Phou si mountiane, to see sunset cruise and Night Market on the street which offers a spectacular sunset and a panoramic view over Luang Prabang and the Mekong River.
Overnight in Luangprabang
DAY 08: LUANGPRABANG- DEPARTURE (B/-/-)
After breakfast, we free leisure until time check-out following the schedule of your own flight and then
transfer to airport.
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