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Best Baci Ever!

village chief family dinner

Laos Baci Ceremony, a Lao cultural encounter from the heart of the Lao people. Spending four nights in a very remote village in Laos is in many ways challenging, but even more rewarding. My colleague and I joined one of the World Volunteer groups in the village Ban Nongkhuay, in order to help them with

Laos presents country on ITB Asia

LAOS on ITB ASIA

Laos showcases the strengths of its tourism potential at ITB Asia in Singapore.   In a private and public effort, Laos successfully showcased the strengths of its tourism potential at this year’s ITB Asia in Singapore.   The yearly trade show for the Asian travel market took place from October 21-23 in the Sands Expo

One Day Motorcycle Adventure with MOTOLAO

Motorbike tour in Luang Prabang

  – Luang Prabang Motorcycle Adventure with MOTOLAO – “A One Day Motorbike Tour in northern Laos”   Traveling to Luang Prabang for a week didn’t give me much time to see everything I wanted so I scrapped a lot of my plans and took a one day Motorcycle tour with Motolao to see more

Adventure in Northern Laos Udomxay – Nam Kat Yola Pa

Adventure Travel in Northern Laos – to Udomxay and the Nam Kat Yola Pa Protected Area, surprisingly “fantastic”… DAY 1 of our northern Laos Adventure Trip to “Nam Kat Yola Pa”: Here I am sat in the Tiger Trail Local Sales shop in Lung Prabang, Laos, feeling frustrated… The Green Season is an amazing time

Building School Access Stairs – Kuchaluang Village

Rainy season in Laos can make life at the villages a little complicated. This was the case for Ban Kuchaluang, a Kasack village that is 1 hour away from Luang Prabang. This village has around 45 families that all share the school’s 2 classrooms but during the rainy season, the steep way up to the

Long Cheng – Motolao Motorcycle Riding Report Laos

Laos Motorcycling Tour Long Cheng

Motorcycle Adventure Tour in Laos   – Motolao riding report to Long Cheng, formerly known as “the most secret place on earth”, a motorcycle diary from Laos –     It’s hard to surprise those of us who regularly ride motorcycles through Laos. We’ve seen the karst rising in the early-morning mist, faced the roughest

I’ll tell you a secret – Hidden Waterfall Adventure in Luang Prabang

Luang Prabang Waterfall Hillside Resort Adventure Tour

I’LL TELL YOU A SECRET  LUANG PRABANG HIDDEN WATERFALL ADVENTURE My team and I joined our local operations team and went on an adventure just outside of Luang Prabang! All we really knew was there is a Hidden Waterfall in Luang Prabang that Rival’s, or is at least equal to, the awesomeness of the 100

Building a Water Tank – Kuchaluang Village

During dry season the villagers of Kuchaluag had to travel many miles to get water for their daily needs. There were months at a time when this village would have no water. Fair Trek and several groups of volunteers partnered with the Kuchaluang community to build this water tank. It has helped the community have

Laos Motorbike Adventure Tours – featured by GoASEAN

Laos Motorcycle tours

  Adventuring through Laos by Motorbike Are you an adventurer? Do you like to do extreme things?   The ASEAN travel   aficionados at GOASEAN.com just recently released an article of the top 12 most extreme things to do in ASEAN. On that list is one and only one thing from Laos, motor biking! That’s right

Laos Nam Nern Night Safari

Cruise on Night Safari in Laos

The Nam Nern Night Safari in Laos  The Nam Nern Night Safari is a 24-hour, boat-based adventure tour into the core of the Nam Et-Phou Louey National Protected Area in north east Laos. The highlight of the trip is the nighttime wildlife-spotlighting, when long-tail boats drift down the Nam Nern River looking for wild and endangered animals before

Fair Trek’s Largest Volunteer Group

Fair-Trek-World-Volunteer-Largest-Student-Group-Eco-Bungalow-Laos

In May, Fair Trek hosted 144 students and teachers from Hwa Chong International School in Singapore. They came to Laos with Fair Trek’s partner, World Volunteer, a Swedish-based service-learning organization, to support the Eco Bungalow.

UXO Laos Museum

Uxo-museum-luang-prabang-vietnam-war-bomb-shells-laos

The UXO Laos Visitors Center is easily one of the most important places to visit in Luang Prabang. It features a simple, but highly informative exhibit that details some of the more disheartening consequence of being heavily bombed during the Vietnam War. This important museum in Luang Prabang features an extremely informative exhibition on the

Living Land Farm in the Green Season

The Living Land Farm in Luang Prabang The Living Land Farm is a Community Enterprise in Luang Prabang, run by local staff for the sole benefit of Lao people. They are probably most well-known for their exciting ’Rice is Life’ tour, where visitors get to experience first-hand what it takes to grow and cultivate rice.

10 Reasons to Travel to Laos in the Green Season

The Green Season in Laos offers many enticing benefits for visitors looking to explore this vast and vibrant country. We present our top 10 reasons for coming to Laos during the wet season — which we prefer to call the Green Season.