On arrival at Luang Prabang International Airport, you will be met and transferred to your hotel. After you have had time to rest and freshen up we will head off on bicycles to see some of the highlights of Luang Prabang including a visit to the Royal Palace Museum, which hosts a range of interesting artifacts from the Royal period in Luang Prabang. Cycling on, we are seeing the city’s oldest temples, the magnificent Wat Xiengthong with its roof sweeping low to the ground, representing classical Lao architecture, the impressive stupa of Wat Visoun, and the shrine of Wat Aham. Your evening to free to explore the town and night market or relax at the hotel.
Overnight in Luang Prabang

After breakfast at the hotel, we depart for the Kuang Sii Waterfall, stopping along the way to visit the morning Phousi Market, where all Luang Prabang residents go to do their daily shopping. Among the chickens, fish, vegetables, and fruit are a variety of local foods and products such as dried buffalo skin, local tea, and saltpeter, as well as everything needed for daily life in Laos. When you arrive at Kuang Sii Falls, you can cool off with a refreshing swim in the topaz pools below the falls, walk along the forest trails, and visit the Bear Sanctuary. You will also have a picnic lunch beneath the falls. Upon return to Luang Prabang, we board our private boat for a pleasant and scenic cruise up on the Mekong River to the mysterious Pak Ou Caves. These caves are an ancient pilgrimage site and contain thousands of gold lacquered Buddha images left there over hundreds of years.
Overnight in Luang Prabang

This morning, we’re off to Living Land Farm, a working community farm about 5 kilometers outside of town. There, you will learn everything there is to know about rice cultivation and have the opportunity to participate in seasonal farm activities such as identifying viable rice seed, plowing with a buffalo, hand planting, weeding, harvesting rice, and threshing rice seed. You could be picking vegetables from the organic garden or catching fish to cook for your all-natural, organic lunch, which will include a sampling of local rice products. We will return to Luang Prabang in the late afternoon and will have the option of attending local petanque games and drinking a few Beer Laos, receiving a spa treatment or massage, or relaxing at the hotel.  (Optional quotation: Petangue game and Spa treatment or Massage
Overnight in Luang Prabang

Depending on your flight, you may have time at leisure before you will be transferred to the airport in time for your departing flight.