HALF-DAY FOOD AND FUN BIKING TOUR

Meet your guide at the Office Ban That Luang. You will be fitted with bikes and head towards the morning market where locals from the countryside around Luang Prabang sell their goods.

Discover different meats, fruits, vegetables, herbs, and spices and learn from your guide how they are used in Lao kitchens.

Each year previously unknown varieties of plants are discovered at this morning market. A few local delicacies will be sampled,

as well. You may come across fried insects like crickets, silkworms, and grasshoppers.

They are usually seasoned with spices and can be crunchy and surprisingly tasty. Bee larvae are a local delicacy.

Walking Difficulty Scale: fun day cycling

Duration: Half Day

Start / Finish: luang prabang

The “Small Chili” is perfect for medium biking, mixed paved and dirt road along the Mekong, Nam Xuang, and Nam Khan Rivers through jungle and villages.

You'll ride from city center out of town and through diverse countryside seeing villages along the Mekong River, jungle covered mountains, and villages amongst vast rice paddies worked by hill tribe villages.

We’ll meet early morning to size up on our quality mountain bikes and then ride out of town heading north along the Mekong River.  After crossing the old communist bridge, make a stop to visit Xieng Lek Village, famous for its mulberry paper and weaving.  Next, turn up the Nam Xuang River going past villages and beautiful countryside scenery. The pavement ends and it’s then off-road into the countryside up and down hills past rice paddies and local villages.

We'll ride through vast rice paddies and jungle dotted with Lao Leum, Hmong, and Khmu villages with locals tending to the daily activities of Lao agrarian life. The last leg of today's ride will take us along the Nam Khan River.

Laos is best on two wheels. Join our guides and see it for yourself on a great day ride in Laos!

Join-in tours available!

walking Difficult Scale; Cycling Medium

Duration: 1 Day

Start / finish:  luang prabang

This is our longest one-day cycling tour, and it takes you along four rivers on mixed paved and dirt paths out of the city and through countryside to Hmong and Khmu villages – all in one tour.

You’ll ride along the Mekong, Xuang, Pa, and Khan Rivers through beautiful jungle with a crossing by local boat with your bike over the last.

We’ll cover a lot of ground, have lunch in a local village, and climb some good hills before returning to Luang Prabang. This tour has been designed for fit cyclists wanting to ride a long distance to see a lot of countryside.

Walking Difficulties scale: Cycling Mode long day

Duration: 1 Day

Start / Finish : Luang prabang

This eco volunteering program is your gateway to feeling like a part of the Elephant Conservation team! It will give you a more in-depth insight into what it takes to look after elephants.

During the week, you will share in the life of our staff and learn more about the Lao culture.

You may even pick up a bit of Lao language! You will start by following our 3 day ‘Exploration’ program. Then you will be asked to assist us in the Center’s development by participating in current projects on site.

During your visit at the Center you will spend a lot of time walking through our protected area. The area is forested and might not always be accessible without you getting dirty. Activities in the forest vary during the rainy season between May and September.

You will be guided by a local English speaking guide and international experts.

Walking Difficulty Scale: Medium

Duration: 3 Days

Start / Finish: Luang Prabang

This is an easy walking tour suitable for all ages and great if you have limited time one morning or afternoon in the heart of Nong Khiaw.

We will have a short tuk tuk ride and walk to caves that were used by the Laos communist party during the Second Indochina War to shelter from bombs dropped in the area.

The guide will walk you through the rice fields that sustain the local families working their farms and tending their animals in a beautiful valley surrounded by mountains.

We will have lunch in a magnificent forest hut before trekking out.

Walking Difficulty: Low - Medium

Duration: Half Day

Start / finish: Nong khiew

Enjoy beautiful views over endless green jungles on the way to a village for ice-cold drinks get in touch with Lao culture.

your guide can explain many interesting things about Lao culture. Afterward enjoy a short ride on the tarmac, visiting a temple on the way to the ferry.

We have lunch in a local restaurant near the ferry landing.

This tour can be a challenge for non-experienced mountain bikers and is rated as easy to medium.

The route is mostly flat with a 200m elevation gain). Partly shady. Can be muddy after rain.

Walking Difficulty scale: cycling mostly flat

Duration; 1 Day

Start / finish: Luang prabang

Half Day River Cruise with a tour of Pak Ou Buddha Cave, Travel upstream in comfort whilst admiring what the Might Mekong River has to offer on the way to Pak Ou cave,

Where the Nam Ou (Ou River) and Mekong River meet at Ban Pak Ou, two famous caves in the limestone cliff are crammed with myriad Buddha images.

(Comfy walking shoes, please note you have to walk up the embankments in Luang Prabang)

Duration: Half Day

Start/ Finish: Luang Prabang/ Luang Prabang

Meal Plan: Snack onboard

Overnight accommodation: Not included

Enjoy an easy day starting with a boat cruise up the scenic Nam Ou river, passing rural villages.

We visit a traditional weaving village and trek through rice paddies to a historical cave used a shelter during the war do some exploring.

We then continue trekking to Ban Na meet the local inhabitants and their way of life have a chat with them, then cruise back to enjoy the high cliffs and the flora and fauna on both sides enjoy  a spectacular sunset.

Walking Difficulty : Low - Medium

Duration 1 Day

start / finish / Nong khiew

Nong Khiaw and the nearby Muang Ngoi village

are two small riverside communities famous for their undeveloped and stunning mountainous scenery on the Nam Ou River.

On this tour you’ll hike two days through jungle and mountains to homestay at traditional Hmong, Lao Leum, and Khmu villages.

A must do while in the area, days 2 and 3 we’ll explore the river and its local village life by boat as we cruise up and down to a homestay in a beautiful village on its banks,

to hike to local caves, and to refresh in nearby waterfalls on this perfect Nong Khiaw trek and river explorer.

Trekking is a Medium to Hard

bring them boots along!

Half day getting to know the Elephants and their habits close to the Mekong river, Pakbeng

Setting foot at the Mekong Elephant Park: After crossing the mighty Mekong, your guide will begin by
introducing the team, the sanctuary, its mission and initiatives towards animal welfare.

Visitors will also be given an in- depth presentation of our elephants, explain their very own story, their family ties without forgetting to
hear about the special bonds they all individually share with their mahout.

Walking Difficulty scale: Low - Medium

Duration; Half day

Start / finish: Pakbeng

Adventure galore, ATV, Trekking, sky bridges, waterfall a full filled afternoon adventure.

tour begins at 13:00 pm ( be early to kit up for the afternoon)

into the forest of Nam kat Yorla pa a protected reserve in the heart of Oudomxai

departing the Tour information center, ATV to the waterfalls, about 5 km

once at the entrance we will trek and walk over 13 flying bridges for about 1 km.

then onto the zip lines for a fun thrilled rides to the car park then drive the ATV back to the Tour center.

Walking Difficulty Scale: Low - medium, how's your driving skills? and wobbly bobbly knees of course !!!

Duration:

Start / Finish: Nam khat yourla pha

Bunny Buster tour through Mini - Farm:

Tour approx. 50 minutes / tours start at 9:30 am until 5:30 pm

Join a scheduled tour of the farm every 30 minutes

cuddle up to and feed our beautiful buffalos at 450 kilo and see the size of their growing cross breeds!

feeding the buffalos and then partake in their bathing ritual, you can wash them and give them a scrub. its a spa day for Buffaloes

learn how to milk a Buffalo and why buffalo milk is so good for you!

the buffaloes are the stars of the show but their playful pigs, galloping goats and rollicking rabbits are also plenty of fun for the young and young at heart!