5 Days 4 Nights
Bangkok - Ubon Ratchatani - Pakse - Champasak - Cruise

Departure:

• 01 November to end of April: Departures every Saturday , Tuesday and Thursday on a cruise down or cruise up
• 01 May to end of October: Departures every Saturday for cruise down and Tuesday for cruise up
• No operation from 01 June to 30 June 2010.

Meal: -

Flight from Bangkok departs for Ubon Ratchatani by Thai Airways. Arrival at Ubon airport, you are met

and transferred to hotel in Ubon, check in and free at leisure.

Meal: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Breakfast at hotel and then transferred to Thai-Laos Chongmek border. After passed through the immigration, then transfer to Sinouk Coffee House in central Pakse for meeting, at 09h30 am , we transfer you to a longtail riverboat for your 2.5 hour journey to Champassak. Upon arrival at the Vat Phou boat, we help you to your cabins to unpack then serve lunch on deck. The highlight of the afternoon is the Vat Phou ruins - the majestic pre-Angkorian 10th century temple complex and boat's namesake. You have time to visit the museum at the ruins site, walk up to the highest temple and take as many photos as you would like. As dusk falls, we transfer you back 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.

Overnight on Cruise ( www.vatphou.com )

Meal: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Breakfast is on board as we set sail for the village of Ban Huei Thamo . This is a small village a few minutes walk away from the mysterious hidden forest temple of Oum Muong . Afterwards we rejoin the boat to continue our cruise southwards. Lunch is on the deck, while leisurely sailing closer to the wild paradise of the "4,000 Islands ". Late afternoon we disembark from the boat to walk through Ban Dua Tae, a small Lao Loum Village where the traditional way of life has not changed in centuries is. Our day's cruise finishes at the most northern tip of Don Khong Island , the largest inhabited island in the river archipelago. After dinner, the evening is yours to relax and enjoy.

Meal: Breakfast, Lunch

While you breakfast on the deck, the Vat Phou boat cruises to the small village of Ban Dong Veuthong where you board a small boat to meander among the 4,000 Islands to Don Khone Island . You will visit the old French railway and walk across the bridge that links Don Khone and Don Det Islands . We continue on the boat back to the mainland for lunch at a local restaurant in a small fishing village, Ban Xieng Di, on the banks of the Mekong . A bus transfers you to the historically significant Khong Pha Pheng waterfall, "the Niagara of the East" it's close to the Cambodian border. We then bring you back to Pakse for the end of the cruise experience, arriving around 16.00pm. After that transfer to Chong Mek border, and then transfer to hotel in Ubon, check in and free at leisure.

TG 023, UBP-BKK 1530-1635.

Meal: Breakfast

Breakfast at hotel, and free on own till time transfer to the air port for flight departure to Bangkok