Summary

Meet and introduction to group and guides, briefing on tour before departure, deposit your luggage in our care. A delicious breakfast is included on all home-stays, provided at the onset of the tour.

Summary

We’ll begin our drive of about 2 hours north of the city, half along a paved road and then along an unpaved road paralleling the beautiful Nam Xuang River. We’ll pass countless villages through rugged mountains on our drive as you leave everything resembling a city far behind you.

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We’ll cross the Nam Xuang river by small boat and begin our trekking through dense old-growth jungle. The first day of the tour is largely shaded as we make our way to our homestay villages.

On this tour we alternatively visit and homestay at two villages, one Khmu and the other Hmong to reduce the impact on either one in particular. We will take a thorough tour of one and then homestay at the other so that you can explore both ethnic groups in these remote villages. Our guides will cook for you, help translate if you would like to talk with anyone in the village, and will inform you about any aspect of local life.

The trekking is 4-5 hours (easy to intermediate) through dense jungle and across numerous streams during the wet season.

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On the second morning we’ll wake for breakfast, bid our new friends well, and begin trekking about 5 hours through more open terrain so that we can take in more countryside. Parts of this trail are down a medium grade.

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We’ll arrive at a the Nam Pa River where we can take a refreshing swim.

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Board our truck for a one-hour return trip to Luang Prabang. We will reach Luang Prabang by about 4.30 pm thus concluding this memorable remote tour.