Kuang Si Falls Luang Prabang

Gonna be doing a lot of flying in the next week but when time is of the essence, theres flooding around Bangkok, and airfares are pretty cheap, its a done deal really!!!
Flight from Bangkok only took 1hr 45mins and I even got a basic meal. got my Visa on arrival without a hitch (just aswell I came prepared with my passport photos and my US …

After enduring countless, forgettable hours of bus, minivan, minibus and tuk-tuk (their taxi) rides, we finally got to Luang Prabang. It was already 9pm. We couldn't wait to settle down and take a long warm shower. It seemed as if we hadn't had one for days! Not to mention EAT! We hadn't had a proper meal in 2 days! We knew we didn't have one …

After two days on the slow boat we arrived in Luang Prabang. Faye and I left the others to sharpen their elbows and fight their way through the bag collection free-for-all whilst we went off to check out some accommodation options.

In order to quell my "I hope we don't end up in a roach infested fleahole" fear, I'd done my customary online …

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We very quickly warmed to Luang Prabang and ended up enjoying a full week there much longer that the usual 2-3 days of most travellers we met before they invariably moved on to the infamous Vang Vieng. Our guesthouse Hoxieng was a nice family run place to stay and we were soon being taken care of by the family matriarch a delightful old lady who …

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Situated at about 1H from; Luang Prabang ( or less than 40 minutes by kamikaze tuk tuk driver), we decided to go to the famous Kuang Si Falls.

At the entry, we walked through a forested area where there are enclosures housing Asian black bears rescued from poachers. We …

Luang Prabang was formerly the capital of a kingdom that had the same name, and until the Communist takeover in 1975, it was the royal capital of Laos. The whole city is a UNESCO World Heritage Site (and you know how we love a UNESCO site). It has a profoundly French influence, and there are many bakeries and patisserie type shops, as well as more …

So we arrived in Luang Prabang feeling quite battered and bruised, so we spent a relaxed first day. Luang Prabang is a picturesque old French colony town and very popular with tourists. The streets are littered with orange robed hunk of monks, which also adds to its charm.

Guess what we did the second day? Hired some bicycles, of course! …

We entered Laos via Huay Xai, getting our visa on arrival was an experience to say the least! Basically there's a scrum at the windows and you have to get yourself to the front to hand in your passport, forms and picture then wait a random amount of time (quicker if you've slipped the officials $5) at the other window for your passport to be …

Well I couldn't leave you hanging on such a cliffhanger!!

As we entered Luang Prabang, one of the tourist capitals of Laos, I was struck by the sheer number of falangs (westerners). However, as we arrived to our guesthouse, we were welcomed by an idyllic paradise! Thong Bay (pronounced tongue bye - unusual name number 2, number 1 is even …

... the road (front entrances of wooden huts were less than a couple of metres from the roadside in some places), we arrived at the Kuang Si Falls.  We paid the park's entrance fee and made our way along the track for five minutes until we came to the ...

... love to go on a pointless tuk ruk ride with you mate'! We had a day out to Pak Ou caves and then onto a Kuang Si Falls which was a beautiful waterfalls all of which appeared turquoise and is where i did my tarzan impression (see video). We also went ...

... a landscape of rolling hills, rice paddies and grazing water buffalo - needless to say we made a few photo stops. At the Kuang Si Falls, two enclosures house rescued wild animals - a number of young Asiatic black bears in one, and Phet, a five year old ...

... of little Buddhas. Little Buddhas everywhere. After that we visited the most beautiful waterfall we have ever seen, Kuang Si Falls. It is actually a succession of several waterfalls, level after level of them, with beautiful, unbelievably clear water ...

... to wear a hat, so I guess things turned out all right. My big event for the day was a trip to Kuang-Si Falls, 29 km outside Luang Prabang. I took a minivan organized trip for $3 with a company that does everything in its power to maximize its profit ...

... to be on his toes not to slip into his deeper- unintelligible- Bradfordian accent at times). The morning is spent at Kuang Si falls, complete with bear sanctuary and turquoise pools. We bring our swimming gear and happily splash about, jumping in down a ...

... to the guesthouse to get in to our leotards and grab a towel. Forty minutes and 30 odd kilometers later and we were at Kuang Si Falls.  It was a short trek (yes this word has recently been introduced in to my vocabulary), up a bit of a road to ...

Getting to bed a bit earlier we caught up on some sleep and decided to go and check out the Kuang Si Falls. We hired a tuk tuk and after the negotiation on price we were off. Five minutes down the road we stopped for petrol (this is the norm here as ...

... to keep his head well clear of the metalwork for the rest of the journey!   Amidst the woodlands before reaching the Kuang Si falls is an unexpectedly located Asean Black Bear Rescue Centre. We chatted to a British volunteer at the centre, who was ...

... colourful woven textiles. We ate at a Swedish restaurant. We shared some seaweed snacks, some spring rolls and I gorged on a Luang Prabang pizza. Tasty stuff. We were pretty shattered and headed home. Our room was packed full of mosquitoes so I ...