Arrival at Luang Prabang international airport and meet your guide, then transfer to your hotel. Check-in time is between 13h30-14h00. Time at leisure at hotel.

Meals on your own. Overnight in hotel.

An optional early start gives you the fantastic opportunity to participate in the daily morning alms giving ritual to saffron clad monks. This tradition is unique to Laos, being the only Buddhist nation still preserving this procession. Visit fresh local markets and back to hotel for breakfast.

This morning, depart to visit Wat Visoun, the site of impressive Thad Makmo stupa. The rounded dome is stylistically more Sinhalese than Lao The Continue to visit Wat Aham. Then, visit to the most photographed temple, Wat Xiengthong. Located at the end of peninsular closed to the confluence of Mekong and Khan River.

This afternoon, continue to former Royal Palace, now the National Museum. Visit Wat Mai, a temple renowned for its golden bas-relief. During Pimai, the Lao New Year, the Prabang normally housed in the Royal Palace Museum is brought and put on public display in this temple.
Nighttime is for your own discovering Luang Prabang night market

Meals on your own. Overnight in hotel

After breakfast, spend the morning exploring the rice culture and farming experience with some hands-on activities along the way. Be welcomed by the hospitable farmers who will show you how rice is grown and harvested. You can plant rice in the rice paddy together with the farmers while seeing the buffalos plough the rice paddies. Discover what rice can be used to produce different products. This afternoon, driving through green rice paddies and farms. On your arrival at the Kuang Si waterfall, enjoy your short walking on trails of falls to visit the bear rescued centre. Enjoy spectacular views and surrounding of orchids inside the park and falls cascade over many calcified tiers and down several hundred feet into a series of cool, turquoise pools. Return to Luang Prabang.
Meals on your own. Overnight in hotel

This morning, drive to Nong Khiew (~4h). Stop along the way to visit Nam Bak market and the weaving Ban Nayang village. Arrival in Nong Khiew. Lunch on your own.
In the afternoon, embark on long tail boat for a relaxing cruise (~1h30mns) on Nam Ou river. Enjoy the beauty of landscape along the banks of river. The cruise leads you to a village where you learn about local life and culture. Then continue cruising to Muong Ngoy where you overnight in local guesthouse.

Meals on your own. Overnight in guesthouse (Simple comfort)

After breakfast, embarking on boat to cruise back Nong Khiew, with a stop to visit an authentic village Houi Hoy, located on the bank of Nam Ou river.

Then, drive from Nong Khiew to Luang Prabang. On the way, visit Pak Ou caves at the confluence of the Mekong and Nam Ou Rivers. In these caves are displayed hundreds of sacred centuries-old Buddha images which are the object of pilgrimages during the Lao New Year festivities around mid-April. Continue driving to Luang Prabang. Arrive and check in hotel in Luang Prabang.

Meals on your own. Overnight in hotel

After breakfast, transfer to Luang Prabang airport for flight to Pakse (3 flights per week)
Welcomed by local guide in Pakse, then depart to visit Boloven Plateau. As soon as you leave Pakse the road climbs in elevation as you ascend onto the Plateau. The area of Volcanic Rock makes for suburb tea and coffee plantations which thrive on the rich soil and the cooler climate. Visit 2 beautiful waterfalls of region: Tad Fane Waterfall and Tad Yuang Waterfall.
Driving back to Pakse and check in hotel. Time at leisure.

Meals on your own. Overnight in hotel.

After breakfast, depart to Champassak and visit the temple ruins of Wat Phou (UNESCO World heritage site), a ruined Khmer Hindu temple complex. This temple is one of the oldest places of workship in Southeast Asia.

Next, heading to 4000 islands area (Si Phan Don area) to visit Khone Phabeng waterfalls characterised by thousands of islands and countless waterways. The Khone falls one of the largest waterfalls in Southeast Asia

Then drive to Don Khong island. Spend your time to discovery the largest island and most peaceful one in Si Phan Don area, southern Laos. Check in hotel and time at leisure.

Meals on your own. Overnight in hotel.

After breakfast, depart to Ban Nakasang village where you start a cruise (~30mns) on long tail boat to Khone Island. Arrival and begin re-tracing the French colonial times here as many remnants (old pier, stream railway, French buildings) stand still. Continue to visit the gorgeous Liphi waterfall, which is a must-see for waterfall-lovers. Cruise back Nakasang village and take road to hotel in Pakse.

Meals on your own. Overnight in the hotel.

After breakfast, free time until your transfer to the airport for your international flight.