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Laos/Yunnan Overland
Tour
12 Days - Vientiane - Luang Prabang - Kuangsi - Jinghong
- Kunming
Price from 2060 US$
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| Day 1 - Vientiane |
• Arrive
Vientiane International Airport.
• Transfer to the Lao Plaza Hotel
• Lunch at the hotel
• Visit highlight of the capital : Vat Sisaket,
Hophrakeo, Patousay and That Luang Stupa.
• Dinner at Khua Lao restaurant
• Accommodation at Lao Plaza Hotel |
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| Day 2 - Vientiane - Luang Prabang |
• Breakfast
at the hotel
• Transfer to the airport for departure to
Luang Prabang.
• Depart to Luang Prabang by QV103
• Arrive Luang Prabang, transfer to the Villa
Santi Hotel or similar
• Lunch at Elephant restaurant
• Visit Vat Visoun, Vat Aham, Vat Phousy
hill for overlooking the city and Vat Mai.
• Dinner and accommodation |
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| Day 3 - Luang Prabang – Kuangsi |
• Breakfast at the hotel
• Excursion by car to Kuangsi waterfalls,
on the way stop over to visit Ban Xom a traditional Lao Loum
village and a Kmou village at Ban Thapene.
• Return to Luang Prabang for lunch.
• Visit of the former Royal Palace, visit
Wat Xieng Thong with its beautifull sixteen century wooden architecture
and its exceptional colletion bronze Buddha images dating from
sixteen and seventeen centuries .
• Dinner at Tamnak Lao restaurant
• Accommodation at Villa Santi Hotel |
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| Day 4 - Luang Prabang – Oudomxay
via Pak Ou cave |
• Breakfast at the hotel
• Excursion to Oudomxay, on the way visit
to Ban Xang Hai where rice wine distillery can be seen. In this
village few years ago, an archaeologic survey had discovered
a very old human settlement with lithium industry and the remains
of Lao village with a very nice pottery dating from fifteen
century had been also unearthed.
• Proceed to pier for a short cruise (around
1 hr) on the Mekong River to visit to the sacred caves
of Pak Ou where are enshrined since sixteen century thousand
of wooden Buddha images.
• Continue by car to Ban Pak Mong and to
Oudomsay.
• Lunch at local restaurant
• Dinner and accommodation at Phouxay Guesthouse |
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| Day 5 - Oudomxay – Muang Sing |
• Breakfast
at the hotel
• Visit local market, and drive to Muang
Sing via Luang Namtha. On the way stopover to visit Taidam (Black
Tai) village famous for its weaving and Iko minority village
at Ban Lakkham Mai.
• Lunch in Luang Namtha.
• Arrive Muang Sing at late afternoon, transfer
to Phou That Resort
• Dinner and accommodation at the guesthouse. |
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| Day 6 - Muang Sing – Mengla |
• Breakfast
at the hotel
• Visit local market where colourful minority
people coming to sell their products.
• Drive to Boten (Lao-China border checkpoint)
for check out to Mengla.
• Lunch at Boten.
• Continue to drive to Mengla.
• Dinner and accommodation at the Hotel in Mengla. |
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| Day 7 - Mengla – Jinghong |
• Breakfast
at the hotel
• drive for 176 kms through a marvellously rich
and fecund area, holding one quarter of China’s faunal
species and one sixth of its plants. On the way stopover at
Hani village and at typical Dai market, the Dai being one of
Yunnan’s major minority. In Xiaomenglun, you will also
visit the tropical center, one of the richest botanical concentration
in the world.
• Arrive Jinghong.
• Dinner and accommodation at the Tai Garden Hotel |
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| Day 8 - Jinghong – Kunming |
• Breakfast at the hotel
• transfer to the airport for flight to Kunming.
• Arrive Kunming and check in at the Horizon
Jianguo Hotel.
• Lunch at local restaurant.
• After lunch, drive to the Western Hill
and take the chair lift for a ride up to the hill, a very quiet
journey through beautiful scenery overlooking the Diashi Lake
at 2,200 meters above sea level, a path winds down to famous
“Dragon Gates”.
• Dinner and accommodation Golden Dragon Hotel. |
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| Day 9 - Kunming – Stone Forest |
• Breakfast at the hotel
• 98 kms drive to one China’s most remarkable
nature phenomena, the Stone Forest. It consists of 80
hectares of innumerable bizarre shaped ancient limestone cliffs
and peaks created by wind a water erosion some 270 million years
ago. The Stone Forest is the home of the Sani minority.
• Lunch at the Stone Forest restaurant.
• In the afternoon, visit a jade factory
and an ostrich farm.
• Dinner at a local restaurant.
• Accommodation at the Stone Forest Hotel |
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| Day 10 - Kunming – Lijiang |
• Breakfast at the hotel
• transfer to the airport for flight to Lijiang.
• Sightseeing of the Old Town of Lijiang
which is regarded as the “Oriental Venice”, unsophisticated
and picturesque.
• Visit the Yuquan (Jade Fountain) Park
also called “The Black Dragon Pond” renowned for its
over 500 kinds of flowers and various famous pavilions, such
as Longshen Pavilion, Deyue Pavilion and Wufeng or Fayon Pavilion.
• Take cable car ride up the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain,
the much famed mountain with thirteen peaks resembling Jade
Pillars. The broad pastures on the mountain sides present a
splendid view.
• Lunch and dinner at a local restaurant.
• Accommodation at the Guanfang Hotel |
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| Day 11 - Lijiang |
• Breakfast
at the hotel
• Drive 94 kms (2 hrs) to the world-famous Grand
Canyon Tiger Leaping Gorge which is one of the deepest canyons
of the world.
• After lunch, continue (64 km – 1 hr)
to Shigu, to visit the miraculous First Bend of the Yangtze
River.
• Dinner and accommodation at the Guanfang Hotel |
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| Day 12 - Lijiang – Kunming –
Departure |
• Breakfast
at the hotel
• Transfer to the airport for flight to Kunming.
• Arrive Kunming, connecting departure flight to
next destination |
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| Valid 01 Nov 2006 – 31Mar
2007 |
| US$ p.p |
1 Pax |
2 Pax |
3-5Pax |
SGL S/C |
Booking |
| Var. A |
3290 |
2070 |
1950 |
400 |
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| Valid 01 Apr 2006 – 31
Sept 2007 |
| US$ p.p |
1 Pax |
2 Pax |
3-5Pax |
SGL S/C |
Booking |
| Var. A |
3270 |
2060 |
1930 |
390 |
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| All prices are per person
in USD, based on twin-sharing in double rooms in the default
hotel for the listed category. |
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Inclusion |
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• Accommodation with
meals as specified in the program
• Transfers and tours with English speaking local guide
• Domestic air tickets Vientiane/Luang Prabang
• Domesic air tickets Jinghong/Kunming/Lijiang/Kunming
• All domestic airport taxes in Laos & China
• Service charges, room tax and baggage handling |
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Exclusion |
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• International air
ticket Bangkok / Vientiane
• Laotian and Chinese visa fees
• Personal insurance
• Surcharge of station guide in Yunnan at USD 310.00 nett
• Expenditure of a personal nature, such as drinks, souvenirs
and laundry etc.
• Christmas and New Year dinner supplement (will be advised
at time of booking |
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