LAOS-CHINA
TOURLAOS-CHINA
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Day 1: Departure from your country.
Day 2: Arrival in BANGKOK. Then proceed to the Domestic airport by the specially provided gangway and check in for flight bound for CHIANGRAI .Our representative will welcome you at CHIANGAI airport and provide transport to your hotel. Introduction and tour of the city. Dinner will be provided at a restaurant in town, then back to your hotel Ban Khun Yom where you will spend your first night.
Day 3:
After an early breakfast you will be allocated our own vehicle with all the
necessary informations. There will also be a brief introduction to driving in
thailand. The vehicles will start their journey to CHIANGKHONG by road. On
arrival all relevent documents will be checked by custom and immigration
officials, before boarding the ferry for BAN HUAY XAI on the other side of the
MEKHONG river.
The Laotian authorities will check the vehicles and documents you will be
then be transferred to your hotel. A light lunch then on to the dirt tracks in
the direction of a small LAEN TAENG tribal village where customs and the way of
life have retained their authentic character. On the way back there will be
ample opportunities to visit tribal villages
and watch people go about their daily chores, there will also be a visit to a
local still and an introduction to the traditional process of making alcohol.
Return to HUAY XAI for the evening market and a look at "Fort
Carnot" testimony of the french presence in LAOS for almost a century.
Dinner in town. (Total: 170 km).
Day 4: Morning start on dirt tracks through a number of LAO and HMONG villages, pristine jungle and beautiful wild natural scenery. Lunch at WIANG PHUKHA then back on the tracks to reach LUANG NAMTHA. Check in the hotel and dinner in town. (Total: 200 km).
Day 5:
Setting off in the morning on a mountain dirt track to encounter several tribes
representing a number of ethnic minorities. HMONG, LAEN TAENG and LAO YAI. Stop
at NAI TOEY and picturesque market, there on to the chinese border. Brief
crossing to CHINA at BOTEN where you will stop for lunch and experience a
completely different atmosphere and environment. Vehicles and documents will be
checked by the police and customs officers. Continuation by road to Jing
Hong, capitale of
the province of SIPSONG PANNA. ( Total: 200
km)
Day 6: Departure by the road, visit Elephant Tree, the amazing botanic garden. Lunch to MUANG LUN. Continuation to MUANG LA for the dinner and the night. (Total: about 100 km).
Day
7: Return to the border with LAOS. Check passports and vehicles and
back to LUANG NAMTHA. Dinner and overnight in Namtha Guest-House.
Day 8: On the road link to BAN HUAY XAI. Dinner in city, overnight in Keo Udomphone Hotel. (Total: 200 km).
Day 9: After
breakfast, boarding the motorbikes and jeeps on the ferry, for crossing back to
CHIANGKHONG. Vehicles and documents will be checked by the police and customs
officers. The last leg of the circuit is the road link to CHIANGRAI. Dinner in
town, overnight in Ban Khun Yom. ( total: 130 km)
Day 10: In the morning we head south along the road to CHIANGMAI . After climbing through two mountain ranges we have a lunch stop experiencing the rich cuisine of CHIANGMAI. Then it's up the mountain that forms the backdrop to CHIANGMAI and to the DOI SUTHEP temple at the top. After we have taken in the exilarating view from the top of the mountain we return to a pleasant break at the Chiang Mai Gate Hotel. There is a photo-session and the option to indulge in traditional Thai massage before dinner on a floating restaurant.
Day 11: We spend a delightful day touring in SANKAMPHAENG which is the handicraft city on the outskirts of CHIANGMAI. This is an ideal opportunity to pick up Thai handicrafts and souvenirs before the evening transfer to BANGKOK from CHIANGMAI airport and the flight home.
Day 12: Arrival in your country.
