Itinerary
Day 1: Luang Prabang to Phonsavan
Pick up from your hotel at 8am. Then travel through a wide variety of landscapes during 6-7 hour drive, which includes lush mountain vistas, steep hillsides, fruit orchards and rice fields.
Stopping along the way to hill tribe village. With plenty of opportunities for photos and group pictures. Approximately arriving in Phonsavan late afternoon.
Meal Plan:
Lunch, Dinner
Overnight Accommodation:
Guesthouse
Day 2: Explore Plain of Jars
Early morning you will visit Phonsavan morning market, the largest local market. You’ll be amazed at the wide assortment of items, mostly food products available here.
Return for breakfast at the hotel. After breakfast you will head to the Plain of Jars, sites 1 & 2, then to Ban Na Pia, the spoon making village. According to local legend, the jars were first used in the 5th or 6th century to celebrate the victories of King Khun Jeuang in local tribal warfare. They were supposedly filled with rice wine.
The second theory is that the jars were part of the burial process. On the death of a family member, the corpse was taken to the jar site, placed in a stone jar and left to decompose until only the bones were left. Once completed, the family or a monk-like person would collect the bones and bury them.
Leaving the Plain of Jars, you will visit Ban Na Pia, the spoon making village. After the Vietnamese War, also referred to as the CIA War in Laos, local people collected metal from the “secret war”, recycling weapons of war into useful items, including household items such as silverware and other souvenirs.
After that you will head to the old town of Phonsavanh, also called Muang Khuon, where some of the heaviest bombings occurred.
You will visit all that remains of Wat Piawat, the primary temple in the old village that was virtually destroyed in the bombing. This is an historical part of Laos’s history, where you will get to know how the Lao people experience during the war.
In the evening time you will visit MAG Office (Mine Advisory Group) to watch a documentary on the war that will give you with yet another insight of the war and its effect for Lao lives in Phonsavanh.
Meal Plan:
Breakfast Lunch & Dinner
Overnight Accommodation:
Guesthouse
Day 3: Luang Prabang/Vang Vieng/ Vientiane
Sightseeing moments just outside Phonsavanh, here you will see the mulberry tree groves, where leaves and fruit are harvested for use in silk production, Sa paper production and food/tea production.
Return transfer to Luang Prabang, Vieng Vang or Vientiane. Please indicate where you would like to be returned to when making an inquiry
Meal Plan:
Breakfast & Lunch
Overnight accommodation:
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