Pakse - Champassak - Vat Phou

• Activities:

  Embark on the ship, explore the Vat Phou ruins, enjoy the tropical sunset

• Meal:

  Lunch, Dinner

• Included:

  Lunch, Dinner, transportation, accommodation, guide

Before lunch, you will be transferred to a long-tail riverboat for your 2.5 hour journey to Champassak. Then serve lunch on deck. In the afternoon, you will explore the Vat Phou ruins - the majestic pre-Angkorian 10th century temple complex and boat's namesake in which you have time to visit the museum at the ruins site, walk up to the highest temple and take photographs. As dusk falls, return to the Vat Phou boat for a chance to enjoy the tropical sunset on the deck. Dinner is served on board, while the boat docks for the night alongside a remote Laotian village.

Huei Thamo - Oum Muong Temple - Khong Island

• Activities:

  Sail for Huei Thamo, visit Oum Muong temple, travel to 4,000 Islands, walk through Ban Deua Tia village, visit Don Khong

• Meal:

  Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

• Included:

  Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, transportation, accommodation, guide, admission fee, insurance

Have breakfast on board as we set sail for the village of Huei Thamo. Then visit the mysterious hidden forest temple of Oum Muong. Afterwards we rejoin the boat to continue our cruise southwards. Enjoy lunch while leisurely sailing closer to the wild paradise of the "4,000 Islands". Late afternoon we disembark from the boat to walk through Ban Deua Tia, a small Laotian Village where the traditional way of life has not changed in centuries. Finish the excursion at the most northern tip of Don Khong, the largest inhabited island in the river archipelago. Relax and enjoy the evening on board.

Don Khone - Pha Pheng Waterfall - Pakse

• Activities:

  Cruise to the village of Ban Veuthong, visit the old French railway, visit Pha Pheng waterfall

• Meal:

  Breakfast, Lunch

• Included:

  Breakfast, Lunch, transportation, guide, admission fee, insurance

Enjoy breakfast on deck as the Vat Phou boat is cruising to the small village of Ban Veuthong, where you take a small boat to meander among the 4,000 Islands to Khone Island. You will visit the old French railway and walk across the bridge that connects Khone and Det Islands. Take the boat back to the mainland for lunch at a local restaurant in a small fishing village, Xieng Di, on the banks of the Mekong. Then a bus will transfer you to the historically significant Pha Pheng waterfall, "the Niagara of the East", close to the Cambodian border. Return to Pakse for the end of the cruise experience, arriving around 5.00-5.30 pm.