Itinerary

DAY 01

NAM OU RIVER CRUISE, 100 WATERFALL TREK, AND CULTURAL VILLAGE HOMESTAY (L/D)

You'll start the day with a traditional long boat ride on the Nam Ou River. Along the way, you'll be able to explore a small Lao village along the river.

Then we'll hike through small streams and rice paddies to reach the base of the 100 waterfalls.

For the following few hours, you'll see only water and jungle and hear the sound of clear waterfall cascades.

Your guide will lead you through the cascades and prepare a local-style lunch on the falls in the middle of it all.

After lunch, we walk back down the valley by a small trail back to the village where we learn about village life.

We take the boat back to Nong Khiaw stopping to look at another Lao/Khamu village and a historical cave which was a hospital and ammunition dump during the war.

At the cave you are picked up by tuk tuk and taken to a small village where you trek a further 2 hrs.

along small roads to your homestay in a Hmong/Khamu village where you get the chance to visit the local farm do some fishing and help to cook your own dinner.

You sleep in small bungalows next to the family house.

DAY 02

JUNGLE TREK, LOCAL VILLAGES, BEAUTIFUL WATERFALLS, KAYAK OR BOAT CRUISE (B/L)

After eating a  traditional  breakfast  prepared by your homestay hosts we start your jungle trek through a mountain pass covered in secondary forest and down through  stunning scenery to a small Khamu village nestled on the Nam ou river

We stop to look around and have a home-cooked lunch there and then take a short boat ride to trek 1hr to a beautiful waterfall where we swim and relax.

After trekking back to the river we take a relaxing slow boat home.

Durations: 

2 hrs 40 mins boat ride

20 mins tuk tuk ride

5 hrs walking (6 hrs if raining 1st day)

5.5  hrs walking (6 hrs if raining 2nd day)