Tad Sae Waterfall Luang Prabang

Its raining cats and dogs. Yesterday by 11am it had stopped raining, so i hoped it would do the same. But it is Laos wet season, so the rain had other plans. It didnt stop til 13:30, it was huge massive drops, we were soaked through. But at least its not cold like in England!!

At 8:30am we went to the Elephant Village booking office, to …

So we finished the final leg of our slow boat trip. Though it was a great experience we were getting cabin fever by the end and glad to get off. When we finally found a guesthouse with a room and dropped off our bags we went to check out the local market and food stalls.

The second day we went to Kouang Si waterfall on a tuk tuk. We were …

Feeling a bit better this morning as we jumped into another van and headed out to the Elephant Village place for a ride on elephants that are thankfully smaller then African elephants, though I didn't need to worry about the comfort - these elephants had seats on them. There were a number of people out there before us so we had a nice relaxing wait …

In Luang Prabang we booked onto an Elephant "Mahout" course with the All Lao Service Elephant camp. A mahout is an elephant trainer/rider. It was a bit of an expense so we designated it a belated Christmas present. We got off to a dubious start as they told us they had to switch the order of the days' schedules around. We couldn't fathom why and …

... and we chugged our way up into the hills for another experience I'll never forget. For a 15,000 kip 'park entry fee', the Tad Sae waterfall is an absolute must-do, even if you do nothing other than sit on the side splashing your feet about with a ...

... snack we both felt well enough to rejoin the group to kayak down to the waterfall and then back to the town. Tad Sae waterfall is a beautiful place with water flowing over limestone rocks (see pictures).  We were able to walk up them (Health ...

... trek to the waterfalls.   After grabbing some lunch at one of the local 'cafes' we sawngthaew-ed to our next stop, Tad Sae Waterfall. You have to get a boat over the river to enter to falls, which makes it that bit more impressive, and again ...

... said our goodbyes for the day and the mahouts took them back. After a spot of lunch we took a boat down the river to Tad Sae waterfall. Unfortunately as it's dry season there wasn't much to look at - just a trickle as if someone had left a tap dripping. ...

... . The first day didn't include any time with elephants ad our first stop was to kayak briefly down the river to Tad Sae waterfall. We did see elephants here though as they have a couple of small ones providing rides into the waterfall pools to dunk and ...

... afternoon jaunt through the forest, we wished we had brought our drammamine. Following the elephant adventure, we had lunch at Tad Sae waterfall where Jay dreamed about bringing his kayak. The next morning, we woke up before the roosters to give alms ...

... , Kuang Si and Tad Sae. Yesterday we trekked through jungle, villages, and rice fields for about 5 hours to get to Tad Sae waterfall. The company that arranged the guide was called Tiger Trail and should be avoided. They sent us out with two guides that ...

... and one shiney new elephant, she headed off into the jungle for dinner and bedtime (around 3pm) and I headed back down to Tad Sae waterfall where the van picked us up again(via an even worse boat ride which saw us each with our own container for ...

... , but tourists still whizzed by on pushbikes. One day we got ourselves in a tuk-tuk with some French people, and went to the Tad Sae Waterfall- it was so beautiful. We had to cross the river in a boat, then climb up to the waterfalls, which are all made ...

... working in the village,, 2 kids of no more then 3 and 5 years old sawing wood for the fire. We then walked to the Tad Sae waterfall, but on the way the heaven's opened, a massive down pour of rain. Even my rain cold could not keep out the rain. ...