Laos Tours & Travel Packages 2024 - 2025

Vientiane

Vientiane is the capital as well as the largest city of Laos. Despite that this is the largest city in Laos, it gives visitors an impression of calmness and tranquility. The city has many significant Buddhism icons of Laos such as That Luang monument, Haw Phra Kaew temple, Wat Sisaket temple, Wat Simuang monastery … Beyond the temples, there are many other attractions such as Victory Gate Patuxai, Buddha Park, Lao Revolutionary Museum …

Luang Prabang

Luang Prabang is the former capital of Laos from the 14^th to 16^th century and again in 19^th century. Visiting Luang Prabang, tourists will have the opportunity to explore the monasteries, monuments, traditional costumes, collections of old French house since colonial era, and beautiful scenery. Luang Prabang is also where many traditional Lao wooden-structured houses remain. In 1996, Luang Prabang was voted as the World Heritage site.

Savannakhet

Savannakhet means “Golden Land” due to its history as a trading post for the French colonialists, Vietnamese and Chinese merchants in 1920s. At present, the province is focused on mining natural resources like copper, gold, and producing tobacco products. Currently, it has a less interest in developing in tourism resources and facilities. However, there are many attractions for tourists to visit such as the French colonial architectures, Wat Sayaphum, Tad Ing Hang Stupa, Savanxay Market …

Pakse

Pakse is usually regarded as the far South’s biggest town in Laos. The city was an administrative outpost of the French in 1905. Comparing to Luang Prabang or Savannakhet, Pakse does not bring visitors a sense of nostalgic because that there are not many historic architectures remaining here. Furthermore, the tourism infrastructure is not very developed. However, this is becoming a popular starting point in Laos explore because of its excellent road link system to other cities.

Vang Vieng

Vang Vieng is known as a combination of natural wonder, backpacker area and party central. Despite the reputation this town gained over the years as a non-stop party area, the town has been calmer in the past several years due to government’s restriction of illegal drugs and alcohol beverage consumption. Nowadays, visitors travel here, besides emerging themselves in the beautiful unspoiled nature, has many other activity options such as river tubing, kayaking, mountain climbing, cave exploring …

Pakbeng

Pakbeng is a small village in between Luang Prabang and Huay Xai. This quiet and sleepy town usually is a stop-for-the-night spot for travelers going to Luang Prabang. What it has to offer is a calm stop point, a good night’s sleep, and a beautiful sunset view.

Khouangsi Waterfalls

Located nearby Luang Prabang, Khouangsi waterfalls is a well-known waterfalls in Laos and in Southeast Asia. Coming here, visitors will be amazed at the wonderful scenery of dense tropical plants filtering sunlight dropping down to turquoise blue pools. Travelers could swim, take many wonderful pictures and selfies with this magnificent spiritual place. Another option would be hiking up to the top of the falls. But be extremely careful since the trail is steep and quite slippery. However, the view up top is truly incredible.

Wat Phou

Located in Pakse, Wat Phou is the oldest temple in Laos. It was the center of Hindu until the 13^th century when Buddhism became the national religion of Laos. At that time, Wat Phou was reconstructed and transformed to be a Buddhist temple. If visitors come here on the full moon of the third lunar month, they will get to participate in the temple’s biggest annual festival including monk-blessing ceremonies, elephant racing, buffalo and cock fighting and trade fair.

Pak Ou

Nearby Luang Prabang, Pak Ou caves is a complex system of two caves, which are lower cave (Tham Ting) and upper cave (Tham Theung). The whole complexity consists of more than 6000 ancient Buddha statues with different sizes and shapes. This cave is where nearby villagers and pilgrims from all over the world bring or send damaged and old Buddha statue for retirement instead of tossing them.

Visiting temples and pagodas

Since Buddhism is a national religion of Laos, the country is well-known for its Buddhist monasteries, temples and pagodas with rich history and beautiful architecture. The most popular Buddhist architectures are located in Vientiane and Luang Prabang. In Vientiane, some highlighted Buddhist architectures are the national monument Pha That Luang Pagoda, Vientiane’s oldest temple Wat si Saket, the Haw Phara Kaew temple with a 18th century bronze Buddha images … In Luang Prabang, travelers could visit the magnificent Silver Pagoda, the most historically significant Wat Xieng Thong, the new monastery Wat Mai, Wat Sene Souk Haram – the Temple of a 100 000 treasures, Wat That Luang temple – the cremation site for Lao royalty …

Exploring caves and waterfalls

The two most famous natural sites as well as must-see when travelling to Laos are the surreal Kuang Si Falls and the solemn Pak Ou Caves. Additionally, there are many other natural sites worth visiting such as the 3 level waterfalls Tad Sae, the stunning Tat Somphamit, the water cave Tham Nam, the picturesque Tham Phu Kham Cave and Blue Lagoon …

Elephant experience

Elephant has always been tied with Laos since the starting time of nation Lan Xang. This is the origin of the title “Land of a Million Elephants.” Elephant is viewed as one of the scared wild animals, but they are hunted badly and being abused for wood logging in Laos. Realizing the seriousness of the problem, organization has saved and tries their best to protect these elephant. In order to maintain the preservation and generating the expense to cover the raising cost, they have opened up Elephant camps or Elephant villages for tourist to interact and learn more about this majestic animal. A half day tour with elephant riding through the forest and river landscapes, bathing the elephants in the river or spending a day at elephant villages are truly a memorable experiences.

Mekong cruise

In Laos, the river, known as the Mae Nam Khong or Mekong River – the Mother of Waters, runs across Laos and Thailand borders. Whether you’re in Luang Prabang, Vientiane, or Pak Se, the Mekong will be right there. For this reason, cruising the Mekong is always an available great adventurous experience for travelers. Today, there are an increasing number of options available ranging from short cruises between northern Thailand & Luang Prabang or in southern Laos, to longer, luxurious sailings along the Mekong. Contact your local tour operators for more Laos cruise adventure ideas.

Souvenir shopping

Local souvenir could be a great source to reflect one country’s culture and history as well as souvenir shopping is a great activities if your tour time is restricted. Laos is well-known for its handicraft products, hence, some souvenir ideas for visitors are: Phaa sin skirt, carving, textiles, ceramic …