VPC-3D2N: VAT PHOU CRUISE – Program Down

(2 Nights, 3 days)

Pakse – Champasak – Vat Phou - Huei Thamo – Oum Muong Temple – Khong Island - Don Khone – Pha Pheng Waterfall

Program

Day 1: Pakse – Champassak - Wat Phou

After meeting at Sinouk Coffee House in the central of Pakse at 9.30a.m., you will be transferred to a long-tail boat for 2.5 hour journey to Champasak. You are welcomed on board with a welcome drink and a set menu lunch is served. The highlight in the afternoon is to take a local transportation to visit Vat Phou ruins; the majestic pre-Angkorian 10th century temple complex and to visit a museum at the ruins site. You are transferred back to the boat to enjoy the tropical sunset on the deck. A set menu dinner is served on board and the boat docks for a night at Ban Muang.

Day 2: Huei Thamo - Oum Moung Temple - Khong Island

The boat leaves at 6a.m. and a continental breakfast is served on board from 7a.m. The first stop is at Huei Thamo village to visit a rural life and a mysterious hidden forest temple called ‘Oum Muong’. After you are back on board, the boat starts to cruise southwards passing by the wild paradise of ‘4,000 Islands’. A set menu lunch is served on board. The second stop in late afternoon is at Ban Deua Tia where you can walk through this small Laotian village to observe a traditional way of life. A set menu dinner is served on board and the boat docks for a night at Ban Deua Tia.

Day 3: DON KHONE – PHA PHENG WATERFALL – PAKSE

The boat leaves at 6a.m. and a continental breakfast is served on board from 7a.m. The boat stops at Ban Veuthong where you are transferred to a small boat to Khone Island. You will visit the old French ra ilway and walk across a bridge which links Khone Island and Det Island. After that, you are transferred to the mainland by small boat for a buffet lunch at a local restaurant in a fishing village; Xieng Di. A bus transfers you to Pha Pheng waterfall as known as ‘The Niagara of The East’ and you will arrive in Pakse around 4p.m.