World Heritage Luang Prabang for Families
Code: LAO108 |
Our family adventures offer choices: learn to cook delicious local food, ride an elephant, and activities are enhanced when you do them as a family. Appreciate Luang Prabang’s mystical charms, World Heritage, great food and other joys together, as a family. We’ll customize the program to your family’s specific tastes, and you will find our guides flexible and able to offer alternative activities to better reflect your needs if and when requested.”
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highlights
in and around World Heritage Luang Prabang |
| GETTING THERE: |
Guided service starts
and ends at Luang Prabang international airport. An increasingly popular option:
travel to Luang Prabang from Chiang Rai Thailand by Mekong Riverboat Cruise
(2d/1n). Daily flights are also available. Ask our destination specialists to
customize services to best fit your family’s overall itinerary. |
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| Day 1:
LUANG PRABANG – TEMPLES & THE TOWN OF LUANG PRABANG BY CHOICE OF BIKE OR VEHICLE – LUANG PRABANG |
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Arrive in Luang Prabang. Meet your local guide and transfer to your hotel. Enjoy lunch at a local restaurant, and then choose to tour the town by bicycle or on foot to visit World Heritage temples sites, including Wat Visoun, Phousi Mountain, Wat Mai, Wat Xieng Thong and the National Museum. Tonight enjoy a dinner of traditional Luang Prabang food.
Meals: Lunch, Dinner
Accom: see below
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Day 2: Luang Prabang – Family Team Cooking Course: Royal Lao Cuisine – Khuang Sii Waterfall Adventure – Luang Prabang |
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After breakfast, travel together to visit the colorful and vibrant Phosy Market, where you will make your guided food selections. Back at the kitchen prepare the ingredients for cooking and then fix the dishes under a shaded roof in an airy garden. The chef will explain to you the differences of South East Asian cuisines. Work as a family team to prepare and cook ingredients, then taste your own work.
After lunch drive to visit the multi-tiered Khuang Sii Waterfall. Kids should bring strong shoes for scrambling over rocks and bathing suits to enjoy a refreshing dip in the cool and crystal clear blue water. This popular park is now also home to Care for the Wild International (CWI) Tiger and Asiatic Black Bear refuge. Return to town. Dinner is on your own at any of the excellent restaurants around Luang Prabang. Ask your guide for suggestions, and enjoy your evening at leisure.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Accom: see below
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| Day 3: LUANG PRABANG –RIVERBOAT TO PAK OU BUDDHA CAVES – BAN XANG KHONG HANDICRAFTS TRADITIONAL LAO MASSAGE FOR EVERYONE – LUANG PRABANG |
After breakfast transfer to the boat landing to embark on a local boat to go up-rive to the Pak Ou Buddha Caves, a stone grotto in the heart of a jagged limestone karst fronting onto the Mekong. Filled with perhaps thousands of Buddha images, this shrine was a favorite place of meditation and worship of the last King of Laos. On the way back, stop in Ban Xang Khong. See their amazing locally-made silk weavings as well as mulberry paper items. Enjoy a traditional Lao oil massage this afternoon and have your evening at leisure. Dinner is on your own.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Accom: see below
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| Day 4: LUANG PRABANG – ELEPHANT RIDE |
Today after breakfast, travel outside of town to an Elephant Camp. Learn about these magnificent creatures as you take one for a ride! If you always wanted to ride an Elephant in its natural biosphere and not in a circus or city, then this is for you. Elephant rides are scenic, tranquil, relaxing and require no specific fitness. In the wet season (July – January) ride your elephant to the stunning Tad Sae waterfall. In the dry season (February – June) your elephant will take you through rice paddies along the riverbank and to a nearby village. Enjoy lunch and then return to Luang Prabang.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Accom: see below
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| Day 5: DAY 5, LUANG PRABANG – ONWARD |
Today after breakfast, relax on your own until time to check out and transfer to the airport for your flight onward.
Meals: B reakfast
Accom: None
End of ServicES
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| Rates
and Other Information |
Luang Prabang
for Families (CODE: LAO108)
Tariff: in US$ per person based on twin/double sharing room and subject to North by North East ‘General Conditions and Booking Procedures’
Note: North by North East makes every effort to provide the highest quality service for the best possible price. However, in these times of volatile exchange rates and rising fuel costs prices can be subject to change due to conditions beyond our control.
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May – Sept 2008 |
3 pax |
4 pax |
FST |
395 |
414 |
DLX |
603 |
500 |
Oct 2008 – April 2009 |
3 pax |
4 pax |
FST |
501 |
574 |
DLX |
617 |
513 |
Price valid until 30 April 2009
Hotels:
FST: Maison Souvannaphoum Garden Room
(1 room for 3 pax, 2 connecting rooms for 4 pax)
DLX: 2 Bedroom Presidential
Suite at The Grand
Price Includes:
- All domestic land and water transportation as
listed in the itinerary
- All meals as listed in the itinerary
- Bicycle rentals on day 1
- All accommodation as listed in the itinerary
- Insurance
- All entrance fees
- Government Taxes and VAT
Price Does Not Include:
- International and domestic air tickets
- Lao VISA fee (30-42$) depending on nationality
- Airport departure taxes and fees
- Meals not listed in the itinerary
- Tips and gratuities
- Items not listed in the itinerary
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