Luang Prabang Sunsets, 6 Ways
Looking for the best way to experience the World Famous Sunsets of Luang Prabang? Here’s a guide to the golden hour a different way for six days.
Mekong Elephant Tales
The elephant population in Laos continues to dwindle, but places like the Mekong Elephant Park are taking positive steps to improve the odds.
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.
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.
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.
New Luxury Boutique Cruise on the Mekong, Laos.
Named after the last ruler of the Kingdom of Vientiane, the ‘Anouvong’ embraces traditional Laotian artwork fused with French-colonial elegance.
Heritage Line brings to life untold stories with the right mix of comfort, adventure, culture, history, luxury, and tradition.
Luang Prabang, Nong Khiaw and Sayaboury Loop
15 days cycling with Elephants, Villages Waterfalls in Laos
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
Ballooning in Laos, Vang Vieng
A magical experience hot air ballooning in Laos
5 Must-See Waterfalls in Laos!
From the glorious twin falls of Tad Fane, to the voluminous amount of water passing over Khone Pha Pheng falls, here are the top 5 waterfalls in Laos that you must see!
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.
Fairtrek Thin Pha trail, boat and Tad Sae waterfall
Hiking in beautiful limestone mountains to a Khmu Village
5 Must-See Waterfalls in Laos!
From the glorious twin falls of Tad Fane, to the voluminous amount of water passing over Khone Pha Pheng falls, here are the top 5 waterfalls in Laos that you must see!
The first step to marvelously defined thighs
Hi. I’m Tom, the newly appointed Biking Manager at Tiger Trail Travel and I have a confession to make. I am not really a cycling guy, I have spent 42 years avoiding Lycra and skid lids*, but I love adventure, the wind in my hair and the sense of achievement you get when you
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Biking, trekking and kayaking in the Laos countryside
My name is David Allan, the Short Tours 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 to the 2 day experience we provide to travellers. We started off at the Tiger Trail bike shop in town
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Treehouses on top of the world: Zip-lining in Laos
By Eliot Stein September 15, 2016 At the Gibbon Experience in northwest Laos, zip-lines connect some of the tallest treehouses in the world. (Felipe Rodríguez Vasquez) During our honeymoon, my wife strapped herself to a steel cable, kissed me goodbye and threw herself off the side of a mountain. I watched as she disappeared into the jungle
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5 reasons to visit Laos in the Green Season
Here’s a roundup of five best reasons why you should pack your bags and come visit Laos during the wet season — which we prefer to call the Green Season.
Laos Elephant Tour – Communicating with Elephants – Mandalao
Luang Prabang has long been a destination for elephant interaction and elephant riding. But since the world of tourism is re-thinking the way elephant tours should be conducted, also Luang Prabang has undergone changes in the various offerings for Elephant tours. As a leading travel management company in Laos, we promote companies who are innovative,
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