Huay Xai Hotels - Reviews and Rates

A minibus picked us up from our guest house in Chiang Mai to take us to Chiang Kong. We arrived in Chiang Kong after a 4 hour minibus journey with a few stops along the way. We met some awesome guys on the bus, Bjorn and Laura from Germany and Nicci and Tony from Oz.

Chaing Kong was a small Village with one long street, with huts for bars...

We took a bus to the Laos border, it was a 8 hour drive to the Huay Xai border. We stopped off at yet another temple, but actually this one was stunning - completely white and silver, even the fish in the moat were white. It was commissioned by an artist for the town. For the border crossing we actually had to leave Thailand by a long boat and c...

Today, Thursday 7th of May we had a travel day. It started off by getting our free ride back into Chiang Rai from the Akha Hill House on the back of a ute, I was a bit worried about my bag bouncing off the top of the cab but we made it down safely and we got to see lots of hill villages on the way down. We then jumped on the two hour bus to Chia...

Today we took a bus from Chiang Rai to the border. We walked about 2 or 3 miles to immigration after we were dropped off by the bus. Kind of a crucial walk considering we had all of our baggage with us. But we were able to do it, I did learn I sweat...A LOT, DANGIT!! Then we got our departure stamp and got on a boat to cross the river. The mount...

We are on our way to the Laos border. Then we will take a two-day slow boat trip down the Mekong River to reach Luang Prabang!

Although most people take from Luang Prabang a boat to Huay Xai mainly to continue afterwards to Thailand, I did it for the sake of new experience. Boat takes two days with a stop over in Pak Beng. It is a slow boat giving you enough opportunities to absorb the feel of Mekong and surrounding nature. Nearby hills and occasional rapids and sandy ...

Finally in Laos, but have to stay 2 nights in this rather dull, expensive, boarder town before there's a place on the Gibbon Experience. Sweet FA to do here, not even a motorbike rental so I got chatting to my guesthouse owner and borrowed hers for 60k kip a day, rip off. 11600 Kip to one Great British Pound. It is cool being a millionair with j...

Got up early and popped over the market to use our new found local knowledge to stock up for the bus journey. Got stitched up on the VIP bus tickets and got on a old dog all the way to Chang Kong on the Thai border with laos. There we had to get stamped out of Thailand and get a longtail over the mekong to get to Laos Immigration. Turned down a ...

Top 5 de Huay Xai a Luang Prabang par Pak Beng 1- Descendre le Mekong en bateau(slowboat) 2- Centaines de moines qui defilent a Luang prabang 3- Ville de Luang Prabang, vive les Francais et l'UNESCO qui la protege!! 4- Etre servi en francais, petit village en bord du Mekong qui vit a la generatrice!! 5- Excursion a velo pour aller aux chutes Tad...

After one of the worst bus rides I have EVER had, Tom and I arrived in Huay Xai and headed straight to the Gibbon Experience office. The Gibbon Experience is a conservation project set up by a French man for the people of Laos. It is in the Bokeo province of northern Laos, and consists of a number of zip lines that run through the forest, and t...