Laos Cycling Tour 7 days: Heritage Sites

On arrival in Luang Prabang you will be welcomed and met by our private guide at the airport and transferred to our group hotel. Please look for the Asia King Travel  welcome sign in the arrivals hall.
Check in hotel and have lunch at local restaurant.

After lunch, we begin to cycle out of Luang Prabang city  to one of the most beautiful Kuang Si Waterfall situated 30 kilometers of Southern Luang Prabang. The Kuang Si Waterfall consists of a tiered many of turquoise pools put amongst the dense Laotian jungle where we will have plenty of time to refreshing swim in the pools and hike around the falls.

You can ascend the stairs and have a look down from various high viewpoints on the way to the top! Please do not forget to bring  swimmers if you’d like swimming .

After that, It is time for us to cycle back to town and enjoy our evening at leisure.
Overnight  at the hotel in Luang Prabang
 

Have breakfast at hotel.
Today, we will start cycling out of city and heading south that will take us up approximately around 1000 meters in elevation .We get out of the Mekong valley and into the mountains, followed by the Khan river. We go through so many villages and make a stop for refreshments every 15 or 20 km.

Then we begin a series of tough climbs. After 15 km of ascending (about 1005 m above sea level), we will be relaxer by 14 km descent to Nam ming (approximately350 m above sea level) where we will have a short stop for lunch. After lunch time, we have one last climb (near 20 km) into the mountains to Phou Dam before we reach to Kew Kacham where our destination ( about 1340 m above sea level ). 

Stay overnight at standard guesthouse with delicious dinner and enjoy plenty of Beer Lao.
 

In the morning, our guide will be pleasant to prepare slight breakfast for you. we will experience cool fresh air in Keukacham where is consider as  the coldest place in our trip because we will start cycling along the mountain ridge for 20 km. Then we start our first climb of the day for 8 km.

We will have lunch at Phoukhoun, 46 km far from our destination Kasi at an elevation of 1300 m. This is a large crossroads where route 7 goes to the plain of jars. We will continue to cycle down route 13 ,this 25 km descent is one of the best in southeast Asia, we will enjoy a most excellent after noon ride. we regroup at abridge across a small stream at 75 km. we then have a short climb before a flat ride into Kasi where we stay over night.

Overnight at the local guesthouse.
 

We should spend only a single morning in cycling to leaving extra relaxation time in Vang Vieng. We still keep going along route 13 and although there are some short ascensions most of the ride is downhill or flat. You do not miss to go for a short walk to enjoy breathtaking scenery on the way. We will make a stop for refreshments a few times along the way, but we have a main stop after 50 km at a big village of Ban Phatang.

The last 18 km is a fast flat ride among the magnificent limestone mountains. We will arrive the hotel in time to enjoy delicious simple lunch overlooking the river. You will be free in the afternoon to experience the town or enjoy  swimming in the river. Vang Vieng has a lively traveler’s scene with all the usual accompanying facilities: e-mail, pubs, pizza and many young foreigners.

Overnight at the hotel in Vang Vieng.
 

In the early morning, we begin riding along the route 13 because we have a long cycling today.On the way, we make a stop for refreshment every 20 or 25 km. The rest of the morning is along undulating roads to Hinherb village.

After 69 km riding, we will reach a long bridge, we have a main rest for lunch  in a local restaurant. The afternoon we will be a bit relaxing by cycling along fast flat roads.

After 83 km cycling, we make a turn left at a main junction of Phonhong town. After 15 km of riding along the flat road and takes, us into the town of Thalat near the NamNgum dam.

We stay in a resort and have dinner at our resort.
 

After breafast at our resort, we say goodbye to Thalat and  begin riding passing through Namngum Dam . We just riding over one sharp hill in the morning then the road would be flatter.

We enjoy our lunch in a local restaurant . Riding today there would be more traffic so please do not forget to keep riding on right side all the time and we regroup before getting into town and then we cycling to hotel.

Arrival Vientiane, you'll go through the suburbs as you cycle to the centre of this historic, lively city located along the bank of the Mekong. Overnight at the hotel in Vientiane.
 

After breakfast we begin to discover the city by bicycle with the first visit of the oldest Wat in Vientiane, Wat Sisaket with thousands of miniature Buddha statues, and the former royal temple named Wat Prakeo, which now is a museum of arts and antiques. 

We then head to Lanexang Avenue you will have chance to take some photos of the stately Patuxai Monument, which seems to be its Parisian inspiration, the Arc de Triomphe.  We should climb to the top which will offer beautifully panoramic views of Vientiane.

We continue onwards down Rue Singha 23 to Laos’ National icon, and most important religious building the golden stupa of That Luang.

Our driver will pick up and transfer to airport for departure flight. End of services.