3 days cycling from Oudomxay to LuangPrabang passing Pakmong or vice versa

This challenge tour will lead you through the winding and hilly road to the world heritage town LuangPrabang, en route you will be welcome to learn about the Hmong culture and their daily life who make use of the nature to earn their living.

Tour Detail

Day 1: The tour will start from the Samlaan Cycling office at 6.30 am. We will head south of Oudomxay. Starting from km 5 we will have 15 km of winding road up hill followed by 5 km down hill before we will have a short break for tea or coffee at km 21. After tea break we will continue with some rolling and climbing another 12 km before we will have lunch at the roadside.
After lunch we will have another 8 km up hill to the Hmong Village Ban ChongCha where we will stay in a small local guesthouse or home stay.

Distance: 54 Km
Road conditions: Sealed road
Tour stages: Hard climb
Attractions: Nice landscape and Hmong ethnic village life

Day 2: After a Hmong style breakfast and short walk around the village, we will continue our riding on the undulating road before we will have a 25 km decent followed by another undulating road part before arriving in Pakmong where we will have lunch. After lunch we will continue on a quite flat section to a small authentic Lao village where we will stay over night at home stay.

Distance: 60 Km
Road conditions: Sealed road
Tour stages: One long decent followed by a quite flat section
Attractions: Lao village life and culture

Day 3: This is an easy day. After breakfast we will take a short walk around the village, then we will head on to LuangPrabang through the very beautiful scenery of mountains a long the Ou river. Lunch will be served on the roadside. There are some short climbs during the mid day, we will arrive in LuangPrabang after 4.30 pm.

Distance: 80 Km
Road conditions: Paved road
Tour stages: Quite flat with some short climbs and undulating road sections
Attractions: The beauty of the scenery of the Ou River and mountains