Tag: Learning

Fair Trek’s FATeam improving communities in Laos

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Updated: May 23, 2017

Recently, Fair Trek teamed up with Peter Richards, an expert on Community Based Tourism, to help realize the need for local communities to have a larger voice and active role in the very projects they benefit from. Thereafter Fair Trek formed the Fair Trek Ambassador Team (FATeam) with tour guides in order to help bridge

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Category: Culture, People, Projects

Tags: Activities, Eco Bungalow, Hmong, Laos, Learning, Luang Prabang, Projects, Tiger Trail, Volunteer, World volunteer

Laos Elephant Tour – Communicating with Elephants – Mandalao

By Markus Neuer

Updated: December 12, 2018

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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Category: Adventures, All, Elephants, Nature, Travel

Tags: Activities, Elephant, Green Season, Learning, Luang Prabang, Tour, Trekking

Baby Elephant Excursion in Luang Prabang

By Markus Neuer

Updated: January 10, 2017

New Beginnings: A Baby Elephant Excursion in Luang Prabang We at Tiger Trail Travel strive to engage in animal welfare and sustainable travel. We constantly look for ways to improve and increase the positive impact through tourism here in Laos. Now a new authentic therapeutic elephant interaction program has opened its doors to a

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Category: Adventures, All, Elephants, Nature, Projects

Tags: Community, Elephant, Learning, Luang Prabang, Mahout, Project

Weaving Classes in Luang Prabang

By Markus Neuer

Updated: January 10, 2017

Weaving in Luang Prabang & Textiles in Luang Prabang Join us and enjoy some of the finest handicraft experiences in Luang Prabang, Laos. Living Craft Center is offering weaving presentations, weaving courses, natural dyes, Lao batic and more… Visit the Living Crafts Center, an interactive weaving center in Luang Prabang, and learn about silk

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Category: All, Culture, Nature

Tags: Activities, Culture, Green Season, Learning, Luang Prabang, traditions

Seeds of Culture – From Living Plants to Handicrafts at TAEC Luang Prabang

By Markus Neuer

Updated: January 10, 2017

Traditional Arts and Ethnology Center Luang Prabang, TAEC, announces internationally curated exhibition “Seeds of Culture: From Living Plants to Handicrafts” The Luang Prabang based Traditional Arts & Ethnology Centre (TAEC) has opened a new exhibit entitled, “Seeds of Culture: From Living Plants to Handicrafts”. This exhibit features the Job’s tears (Coix) plant, indigenous to

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Category: All, Culture, Interviews, People, Projects

Tags: Community, Culture, Laos, Learning, Project, traditions

Fair Trek Eco Bungalow: Our 100th Visitor!

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By Kyle Wagner

Updated: January 10, 2017

The Fair Trek Eco Bungalow welcomes its 100th visitor! Today the Fair Trek team is proud to announce that the Eco Bungalow has just reached its 100th guest! With or recent listing on Airbnb, it is now easier to book the eco-bungalow than ever! We will strive to increase this number, connecting more tourists with

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Category: Adventures, All, Culture, Nature, Projects, Travel

Tags: Adventure, Bungalow, Community, Culture, Eco Bungalow, Hmong, Laos, Learning, Luang Prabang, Project, Tour, Travel

Travel Laos & Asia with Children – Laos Family Travel Tip

By neuermarkus

Updated: January 10, 2017

Travel Laos with Children Travel Laos with kids information blog. Taking on a family travel through Laos with your children is exciting and challenging – We prepared some travel tips from the Lao travel specialists perspective. Visiting Asia with children is getting more and more popular and for good reasons, as

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Category: Adventures, All, Interviews, Travel

Tags: Activities, Adventure, Green Season, Laos, Learning, Travel

The Luang Prabang Artisan’s Cafe

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By Kyle Wagner

Posted: November 26, 2015

We would like to introduce you to the Luang Prabang Artisans’ Cafe where we serve fresh, organic meals and drinks set in a garden of a 100-year-old house.

Category: Culture, Food, Travel

Tags: Activities, Culture, Food, Lao food, Laos, Learning, Luang Prabang, Restaurant

Empowering Lao Women With Soap

By Kyle Wagner

Updated: August 1, 2015

Jonathan Look of LifePart2 travels to remote villages of Phongsali with a member of Soap4Life to help train rural women in soap-making.

Category: Adventures, Culture, Projects

Tags: Adventure, Charity, Community, Fair Trek, Laos, Learning, North Laos, Project, Tiger Trail, Tour, Travel, Volunteer, Waterfall

Laos Nam Nern Night Safari

By Markus Neuer

Updated: July 28, 2015

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

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Category: Adventures, Nature, Travel, Trekking

Tags: Adventure, Community, Fair Trek, Learning, Projects, Travel, Trekking

Fair Trek’s Largest Volunteer Group

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By Kyle Wagner

Updated: July 3, 2015

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.

Category: Adventures, Interviews, Projects

Tags: Activities, Bungalow, Charity, Community, Culture, Eco Bungalow, Fair Trek, Home stay, Lao food, Laos, Learning, Project, Tiger Trail, Travel, Volunteer, World volunteer

UXO Laos Museum

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By Kyle Wagner

Updated: June 19, 2015

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

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Category: Culture

Tags: Activities, Adventure, Charity, Community, Culture, Laos, Learning, Luang Prabang, Tiger Trail, Tour

Living Land Farm in the Green Season

By Kyle Wagner

Updated: June 3, 2015

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.

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Category: Adventures, Culture, Nature

Tags: Activities, Adventure, Culture, Food, Green Season, Laos, Learning, Luang Prabang, Tiger Trail, Tour, Travel

What not to miss at Kuang Si waterfalls

By Kyle Wagner

Updated: May 28, 2015

While the Kuang Si Waterfalls are one of the top attractions in Luang Prabang, you should not miss the Bear Rescue Center and Butterfly Park located nearby.

Category: Adventures, Nature, Travel

Tags: Activities, Adventure, Green Season, Hmong, Laos, Learning, Luang Prabang, Tiger Trail, Tour, Travel, Waterfall

10 Reasons to Travel to Laos in the Green Season

By Kyle Wagner

Updated: June 10, 2017

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.

Category: Culture, Nature, Travel, Trekking

Tags: Activities, Adventure, Culture, Elephant, Fair Trek, Food, Green Season, Hotels, Lao food, Laos, Learning, Luang Prabang, Mekong, Tiger Trail, Tour, Travel, Trekking, Waterfall

Celebrating elephants in Laos

By Kyle Wagner

Updated: July 20, 2015

ELEPHANTS IN LAOS For centuries Laos was famed as the kingdom of a million elephants. Now there are fewer than 900 living in the country. While it is unknown whether a million elephants once roamed freely in Laos, elephants are a practical part of everyday Lao heritage, culture, agriculture and livelihood. Elephant are highly respected

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Category: Adventures, Elephants, Festivals, Nature

Tags: Activities, Adventure, Elephant, Elephant Village, festival, Festivals, Learning, Mahout, Travel

Silk Dyeing 101 at Ock Pop Tok

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By Kyle Wagner

Updated: March 31, 2015

This past weekend I took a silk dyeing class at Ock Pop Tok’s Living Crafts Centre. The day was gorgeous, the sun was shining, and the skies were the brightest blue. As I walked into their cafe to wait until the class began, I was handed a complementary fruit tea. I was told that it was some snake

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Category: Culture, People

Tags: Activities, Culture, Laos, Learning, Luang Prabang, Mekong, traditions

East meets West for lunch at Ock Pop Tok!

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By Kyle Wagner

Updated: September 26, 2014

Ock Pop Tok’s Silk Road Cafe is a tranquil place to come for either a brunch or lunch and gaze out at the slow and mighty Mekong. It is also a place where you can find traditional Lao food infused with Western favorites that will surely excite anyone’s taste buds. As we quickly grabbed a

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Category: Adventures, Food, Nature

Tags: Activities, Culture, Food, Lao food, Laos, Learning, Luang Prabang, Mekong, Restaurant

TAEC: Help Preserve Cultural Diversity!

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By Kyle Wagner

Updated: February 17, 2016

It was extremely hot and sunny during my first two weeks here in Luang Prabang, a rarity during the ‘rainy season’. For my first weekend, I decided to cool off from the mid-day sun and experience some cultural diversity by visiting the Traditional Arts and Ethnology Centre. While some may think that the TAEC is

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Category: Culture, People, Projects

Tags: Activities, Community, Culture, Fair Trek, Hmong, Laos, Learning, Luang Prabang, Project, traditions

Tiger Trail Gears Up for the high season!

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By Kyle Wagner

Updated: September 16, 2014

Last Thursday and Friday, Tiger Trail had a two-day tour guide training session at a local college in Luang Prabang. This was one of the few times of the year that all of our guides are together in one room! This training workshop was lead by both Peter Richards and Markus Neuer. Peter was an inspirational speaker and

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Category: People, Projects

Tags: Activities, Community, Laos, Learning, Luang Prabang, Project