What to do in Luang Prabang and where to go:
Butterfly Park Cuang Si (Kuang Si Butterfly Park)
Forests around the waterfall Kuang C have always attracted a large amount of butterflies.
Now the park of butterflies makes it possible to admire the butterflies at close range. After more than year, this family attraction was opened in January 2014 by the Dutch pair. The park is located 300 meters down the road from the front entrance and parking Cuang Si. In any case, follow the signs. The entrance costs 30000 kip for adults, 15,000 kips for children, and this amount includes an additional 15-minute excursion, during which you will learn about the butterflies and local flora.
From the main entrance to the butterfly park you will pass through beautiful gardens, and take a pause to admire the waterfall. A cheerful "Fish pedicure" here also is, by the way, only not in the aquarium, but right in a small shallow lake. In Laos, the concept of the nature reserves is in the infancy, so that similar projects like this worthy of admiration.
Location: 29 km from Luang Prabanga to Southwest
Opening hours: Daily 10: 00-17: 00
Table villages
Craftscred villages are two kilometers from the city.
Right there you can learn how to weave yourself - one day of training costs $ 45 (weaving from bamboo), and, for example, a three-day weaving course, painting and creating scarves in a traditional style - costs almost $ 200. Read more on their website: http: / /www.ockpoptok.com
Organic Farm (The Living Land Organic Farm)
On this farm, five kilometers from Luang Prabang travelers can learn how to grow rice and try their strength in each of the 14 labor-intensive steps (from the grain - to the dining table, as they say).
By the end of the middle of the working day, you will be dirty, sweaty and just look at other eyes to work with rice manufacturers - it's terribly hard! One of the most interesting and heavy stages - plowing the earth with buffalo - you will be just on the ears in the dirty albeit! "In Laos, rice is life," says the director of this center. He does not joke. Adhesive rice is one of the main products in Laos and it is eaten during each meal. More than 500 types of rice are grown in this country to this day all land procedures are made manually. Only hard work and only the same tools and methods that have used their ancestors over the centuries.
The idea of "living earth" is organic methods, response pesticides, chemical fertilizers and a destructive housing-firing method, which is commonly used in Laos. Products from this farm are supplied to hotels and restaurants in the city, by the way. In the end, tourist workers are collecting at the table to try Kin Khao, which is literally translated as "there is rice" - you will score a small ball from sticky rice straightforwards and send it to mouth - only after such works you will, perhaps with love to consider each rice :) Here you read about the price for the program and so on: http://www.livinglandlao.com
Location: Ban Phong Van Village, on the way to Kuang Si waterfalls, about 15 minutes' drive to Tuk-Tuka from the city.
Sunsets in Luang Prabang
Yes, this is still entertainment!
The sunsets in Luang Prabang produce an indelible impression on travelers. This is not just beautiful heaven, it's just some kind of magic! This is a pink gold blanket that descends from the mountains and covers Mekong, temples and houses, and you will learn what you need to raise your head and admire it when the bells are spoiled and drums will play in the temples, foreshadowing evening prayers. For local residents and tourists, it is straight some collective sigh, pause. In general, it is necessary to see. So, where the sunsets are the most beautiful:
At the top of the hill
Mount Fussey is located in the heart of Luang Prabang. 328 steps lead to Wat C Si upstairs - here is the most popular place to admire sunset, and at the same time stunning views of the surrounding green mountains, rivers and picturesque roofs below.
Sunset on Mount Fusi - Mandatory item to do in Luang Prabang. Yes, it happens very crowded in the evening, and even noisy, and maybe the perfect picture will not be done at all, but still not to visit the top of the mountain just a sin. There are two stairs leading up - one from the main street (Sisavangvong Road), and the other next to the road at the Han River (Nam Khan River). Although you probably want to capture a bottle of wine to the mountain, remember that there is still a temple, alcohol, smoking and open clothing are inappropriate.
By the river
In Laos, life revolves around his rivers, and you will understand this, heading in the shores at the end of the day. Here you will be waiting for picturesque scenes: Fishermen return home with a catch, women wash their hair and erase, and children splash and play.
Sit in local bars on the shore of Mekong, from where you have a great view of the sunset - an excellent option (bars come from Kitsalat Road or, as it is called, "Morning Market Street" and pull in the city). On wooden terraces, tourists are sitting on wooden terraces, and the locals, everyone is drinking Beerlao, listen to Lao pop music and eat traditional snacks to beer, such as meat barbecue and Khai Pene, crispy sharp fried algae sheets.
Another way to enjoy the sunset is to go to the cruise. Ride stands, as a rule, 100,000 boos for an hour on a boat (with a roof) and this is a normal price. You can always ask first look at the boat, but do not argue once again with a boatman about the price if you are not going to take this tour.
During the hot dry season (from around March to June), the water level in the rivers falls, and beautiful beaches are formed in the confluence of Khan and Mekong. From here it is great to watch fishermen and children playing beach football. There is a bamboo bridge over the mouth of the Khan - on the other side on the shore you will see boulders, and this is another good place to admire the sunset. Go through the bridge worth 10,000 boiled boiled back.
And you can also meet the sunset, doing yoga - the benefit of the lovers of yoga here comes a lot. Usually they are engaged in the open terrace of Utopia Bar & Restaurant overlooking the Khan and in Ock Pop Tok Living Craft Center, which goes face to Mekong. About Yoga in Luang Prabang read here: http://www.luangprabangyoga.org/
Here are such pleasant entertainment in this glorious city!