Luang Prabang - Kuang Xi Waterfall
1 day
Pick up from your hotel, we drive out into the close by valley south east of Luang Prabang. Arriving at the Long Lao village we will start our trekking tour. We will have a chance to discover the life and culture of the village where Khamu and Hmong people live.
After that, we will pass some fields and vegetable gardens before reaching the forested mountains with quite wild sceneries and steeper climbs. On the way, we will explore an interesting cave which was served as a bomb shelter for the villagers living in this valley during the Second Indochina War.
Keeping trekking one more hours will take us to Kuang Xi Waterfall - a beautiful pool which is full of big sacred fish before having a Lao-style lunch is served in the lush forest setting around the waterfall.
In the afternoon, we will have free time to bathe and relax by the turquoise pools below. It is worth to drop by at the Bear Rescue Center close to the entrance gate in which more than 10 animals including sun bears and Malayan black bears are cared for after they've been rescued from bile farms or wildlife traffickers. We can walk around nearby Ban Thapene - a Khmu village that lies nestled around some of the nicest pools of Kuang Xi Waterfalls. We will return to Luang Prabang by songtheaw around 18.00P.M