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Day
5 LAOS: BOAT BUS:
Mekong River (10 hour boat tour to Guest House at night)
Cross river from Thailand by small boat (longtail) to customs
Ride a songthaew (local bus 10m) to river dock
SONGTHAEW
A songthaew is a passenger vehicle in Thailand and Laos adapted from
a pick-up or a larger truck and used as a share taxi.
It takes its name from the two bench seats fixed along either side
of the back of the truck; in some vehicles a third bench is put down the
middle of the seating area.
Additionally a roof is fitted over the rear of the vehicle, to which
curtains and plastic sheeting to keep out rain may be attached.
Some vehicles have roofs high enough to accommodate standing passengers
within the vehicle.
More typically, standing passengers occupy a platform attached to the
rear.
To Mekong Boat Trip: SLOW BOAT
Get a good seat away from engine - get a window
10 hour trip on traditional slow boat down
the Mekong River
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MEKONG RIVER
Pak Beng Guest Houses
Days
6-8 Luang Prabang (3B,1D) (10 hrs boat will arrive hotel at 5 pm)
DAY 6: PAK OU CAVE Stop outside of town
Overlooking the Mekong River,
25 km to the north of Luang Prabang
LUANG PRABANG
UNESCO world heritage
listed town: Options: temples, cafes, picnic, textile galleries, sunset
hill
DAY 7: Ethnology Museum
DAY 8: Kuang
Si waterfalls
KUANG SI WATERFALL
Traditional Lao meal experience in a local home and
Buddhist ceremony
Luang
Prabang Night Market
NIGHT MARKET
DAY 9 HOMESTAY - Drive
through Mountains
Evening Meal
Days
10 Vang Vieng - Drive to hotel
Karst Topography - US Air Force Base during war
VANG VIENG
Day
11 Vientiane (1B) (3 hr private drive to Hotel)
Capital
VIENTIANE
Wat
Sisaket Temple
Pha
That Luang, Lao's national symbol
Morning
Market
VIETNAM
FLIGHT: Days 12-13 Hanoi (2B) (flight
1.5 hr / transfer 45m to hotel2 Old Quarter)
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Part of the series: Thailand
~
Laos
~ Vietnam
~ Cambodia
Note: We prepared this series of preview pages
before we left on our Indochina tour.
The photos and journal entries we took on that actual
tour are featured at:
www.hillmanweb.com/indochina
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