Private Tour: Pak Ou Cave and Kuang Si Waterfall Tour from Luang Prabang

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1. Our tour guide will pick you up at 9am from your Luang Prabang city area hotel. You will leave to the dock to board a traditional boat and voyage along the Mekong towards Pak Ou Cave.

   2 h

2. Essentially a religious site, the Pak Ou Buddha Caves are situated inside a lofty shake face that hangs over the consecrated site like tobacco-recolored teeth. Gotten to by a splendid white-washed, crisscrossing staircase, the water crafts dock at the base and consider travelers and vacationers alike to climb into the upper and lower caverns for investigation. Once inside, guests are met with a huge number of statues of the Buddha. Going in size, quality, and material, the main factor joining these likenesses are their minor blemishes. Wander sufficiently long, and you can recognize every; some are missing hands as well as have chipped faces, while others rundown to the side or were supplanted by more up to date forms less love-worn from times of commitment.

   3 hAdmission included

3. After having lunch start for Kuang Si Waterfall. The dynamic blue waters that stream down the falls travel down through a progression of pools before rejoining the stream of the wilderness waterway. After periods of streaming over the stones, the falls have scratched profound lines into the stone making an excellent travertine design. The pools are littler close to the highest point of the falls, however will in general augment out closer to the base in the long run ending up sufficiently huge to swim in should the tropical warmth move somebody to hop in as it regularly does. Local people (who charge a little expense to guests to the falls) have worked out a wooden stage that guests can take in the surging waters from, or even jump off of in certain spots.

   3 hAdmission included

4. Achieving the Kuang Si Falls is somewhat dubious as they are entirely distant the most common way to go and require an eager driver or rental. Anyway the pervasive tuk-tuk drivers in the adjacent town of Lunag Prabang are commonly ready to take anybody keen on going to the falls for an ostensible charge. It's well justified, despite all the trouble to deal your way into a ride to the falls not simply to get away from the warmth by swimming in the pools, yet in addition to absorb some characteristic magnificence discovered couple of different places on the planet.

   1 hAdmission included

Cancellation

Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.

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How it compares in Luang Prabang

• Its from-price is 62% above the median of the 47 day trips we list in Luang Prabang.
• Its length is typical for the group.
• By number of reviews it ranks 5 of 47.
• The operator lists free cancellation on it.

About Luang Prabang

Luang Prabang is a small royal town in northern Laos on the Mekong, with gilded temples, French colonial houses, morning alms-giving and nearby waterfalls.

Luang Prabang sits on a peninsula where the Nam Khan river joins the Mekong, ringed by green mountains. It was the royal capital of the Lao kingdom until 1975, and its whole old centre is a World Heritage site, a mix of Lao temples and French colonial shophouses. Wat Xieng Thong, built in the 16th century, has sweeping roofs and glass mosaics, and the former Royal Palace now serves as the national museum.

Top-ranked sights in Luang Prabang: Kuang Si Falls (Tat Kuang Si), Pak Ou Caves, Whisky Village (Ban Xang Hai).

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