Inclusive Training in Luang Prabang
The Luang Prabang Deaf & Mute Community Training Center has been providing education to differently abled students from Northern Laos for 11 years.
Tiger Trail Tidbits: Mid Month Roundup, December 2019
Keeping you up to date on all things Tiger Trail!
Tiger Trail and Lao Friends Hospital for Children Team Up for Works of HeART
The free exhibition at Friends Gallery in Luang Prabang on February 14th from 5pm – 7pm where the selections will be revealed.
Luxury Homestay Opens in Khmu/Hmong Village
The village home stay is built from clay bricks and provides a little bit of luxury where sensitive and culturally interested travellers can enjoy an ethnic interaction responsibility while staying in ecologically built accommodation that supports the community with ongoing income.
Boun Khao Phansa
The beginning of the Buddhist lent. Buddhist Lent is a period of three lunar months starting on the first day after the full moon of the eighth lunar month. It marks the beginning of the rainy season.
Tiger Trail builds Community Workshop Space in Ban Huay Fai
Huay Fai is a beautiful village near Luang Prabang Many tourists pass through as it is close to the popular Tad Sae waterfalls. The village has a homestay program providing revenue to the community and now a shared community space will run tourist workshops providing further income for local families.
Traditional Storytelling in Luang Prabang
Garavek is a small theatre based in Luang Prabang, promoting and preserving local traditional myths, legends, and folktales. Every evening, from 6.30-7.30pm, they present a selection of traditional Lao stories (in English) in an intimate thirty seat theatre.
Learning to Cope after the Secret War
Up to a third of the bombs dropped did not explode. In 2008, 300 people a year were injured or killed and today that figure is closer to 50. Uncleared land still poses a threat to farmers and villages and sadly people still suffer injuries today, often lost limbs or eyesight.
Pi Mai Lao (2019)
Lao new Year 14th to 16th April 2019
3 Days of Magic in Laos This New Year
3 magical days in Laos for Pi Mai Lao (Lao New Year)
FAIRTREK – Hokkaido School helping communities
Student group completes mud-brick house in rural ethnic village to generate income
Crazy Golf & Playground | Luang Prabang with Children
Traveling with children just became a whole lot easier with the opening of Crazy Golf in Luang Prabang. This is a great opportunity to relieve some of the hassle that inevitably occurs during overseas travel.
Discover Secrets of Deep Mountain Lao Hilltribes
High in the mountains of Laos lives a minority society, a group of people with a clan system strong in cultural traditions, forged by centuries of animism and ancestral worship and working the land, that they have survived war, desolation and years of oppression. This is the home of the Hmong.
Luang Prabang Family Travel Guide
Family relationships form the true heart of Lao culture. To many Lao people, these connections far supersede anything else in importance.
Important Noodle knowledge for Laos Travellers
Noodles are a way of life in Laos admired, critiqued, slurped and savoured all over the country.
Fairtrek Thin Pha trail, boat and Tad Sae waterfall
Hiking in beautiful limestone mountains to a Khmu Village
Luang Prabang gets a new food tour
A new street food tour is born in Luang Prabang and we check it out.
Biking, trekking and kayaking in the Laos countryside
My name is David Allan, Manager at Tiger Trail Travel. Recently I enjoyed some customers on a two-day Fairtrek out of Luang Prabang into the countryside for an overnight adventure and insight into the 2-day experience we provide to travellers. We started off at the Tiger Trail bike shop in town where we met up
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Why the Luang Prabang Film Festival is like no other
The Luang Prabang film festival (LPFF) rocks to a different beat than others. Not only do they screen amazing talent from South East Asia but they are on a mission – a social mission. Started by one man about 6 years ago simply because there was no theatre in Luang Prabang, it has grown to one
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King of Thailand’s Funeral Ceremony: Advice for Tourists Oct 2017
Thailand is building up to what will be a historic period with final preparations under way for the funeral of the late King. The Royal Cremation Ceremony will be held in Bangkok from October 25-29. It will be a sad time for Thai people, but the country will remain as welcoming as ever for tourists
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