The Hidden World of Laos
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Overview
Highlights
- Explore Luang Prabang
- Visit Kouang Si Falls
- Enjoy Boat ride to Don Det and Don Khone
- Visit Pratuxai Park and enjoy sunset
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- Accommodations as listed, including all service charges and taxes
- Transfers and sightseeing in air conditioned coaches
- National guide for groups of 410. Local guides for groups of 13
- Entrance fees to museums, temples, etc.
- All meals as indicated with Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
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Accommodation: Kidara or Mekong Riverview
Fly Luang Prabang from Bangkok on PG 941 (0940/1140). On arrival in Luang Prabang, you will clear immigration and customs. Leaving the airport, you will see your guide holding a sign with your name on it. He will take y...
Meals: Breakfast and Lunch
Accommodation: Kidara or Mekong Riverview
After breakfast, you head down to the river to take a boat ride to the famous Pak Ou Caves. Said to have been discovered by King Setthathirat in the 16th century, the upper and lower ca...
Meals: Breakfast and Lunch
Accommodation: Kidara or Mekong Riverview
This morning, you might want to rise early to see the monks as they ask for their daily alms.
After breakfast, you take another trip into the countryside today to see the scenery...
Meals: Breakfast and Lunch
Accommodation: Kidara or Mekong Riverview
The day begins with some more exploration of Luang Prabang. The first stop is the talat or market. Then, when you are ready, you can follow the river to Wat Xieng Thong – one of Luang P...
Meals: Breakfast and Lunch
Accommodation: Vansana Plain of Jars Hotel
After an early breakfast, you head out along mountain roads with stunning forest views, lush valleys and interesting limestone karst formations. You start early this morning, around 8a...
Meals: Breakfast and Lunch
Accommodation: Vansana Plain of Jars Hotel
In the morning, you can explore the Plain of Jars. One of archeology’s unsolved mysteries, 300 or so carved stone jars are scattered over a 625 square mile undulating plateau. The ston...
Meals: Breakfast and Lunch
Accommodation: Vansana Plain of Jars Hotel
Today is Sunday, the day of the large Talat Hmong Market. You can visit this and some of the local markets in and around Phonesavan.
You can also head out towards Tam Piu Cave, ...
Meals: Breakfast and Dinner
Accommodation: Settha Palace Hotel
This morning, you head to the airport to catch QV 402 (1030/1100) to Vientiane. The name, Vientiane actually means either “Sandalwood City” or “Moon City.” A quiet town of less than half a mi...
Meals: Breakfast and Dinner
Accommodation: Settha Palace Hotel
You begin your day by visiting the That Luang Stupa, built in 1566 and the heart of Vientiane. Near by is Pratuxai Park, where you were yesterday.
Then you can see Wat Sisaket, built i...
Meals: Breakfast and Lunch
Accommodation: Champasak Palace Hotel
Today, you will fly to Pakse in Champasak Province. Champasak Province, of which Pakse is the capital, has a long history, dating back to the Kambuja occupation during the early Funan and C...
Meals: Breakfast and Lunch
Accommodation: Senesothxeune Hotel
This morning, you will head south along the Mekong to Don Khong.
Your first stop will be at the almost unknown complex of UmMuang. This site is everything a jungle temple should be. Af...
Meals: Breakfast and Lunch
Accommodation: Senesothxeune Hotel
After breakfast, you can take a traditional boat across the Mekong to Don Det and Don Khone Islands. A former railway bridge connects the islands. (The railway stopped running in 1945.) The ...
Meals: Breakfast and Lunch
Accommodation: Champasak Palace Hotel
This morning, you will take the boat to the other side of the river, where your car awaits. Climbing in, you will head back to Pakse, stopping at several sites along the way. If all goes we...
Meals: Breakfast
This morning, you will drive across the new October 2000 finished bridge over the Mekong to the border in Thailand, crossing at Ubon Ratchathani. Here you can make a special side trip to see an archeological wonder, the Pha Taem Cliff Paintings...
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- Any hotels transiting between your destination and the United States. We will be happy to book the Bangkok Novotel Suvarnabhumi Airport hotel or the Miracle Hometel, which is not included in your cost.
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- Meals where not indicated with a B,L,D
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- International airport taxes
- Other items of a personal nature including laundry, alcoholic beverages, etc.
- Additional expenses resulting from the delay or extension of the trip due to causes beyond our reasonable control
International Airfare/Air Tickets: Refund subject to airline cancellation rules and procedures.
Land Portion & Internal Air*: Refund will be given according to the schedule outlined below.
NOTE: Minimum cancellation charge is $1,000 even for trips with land cost less than $1500.
- If 120 Days or more prior to departure date, then Applicable Cancellation Fee is $1,000 per person plus any varying non-refundable pre-payments we have made in advance on your behalf (i.e. Penalties incurred for cancelling air, deposits paid to hold reservations, etc.)
- If 61-119 Days prior to departure date, then Applicable Cancellation Fee is 50% of the land cost plus any varying non-refundable pre-payments we have made in advance on your behalf (i.e. Penalties incurred for cancelling air, deposits paid to hold reservations, etc.)
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- At or after departure, then No refund
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