Day 01: CHIANG MAI - ARRIVING
Arrive in Chiang Mai and make your own way to the Chiang Mai Ratanakosin hotel. Meet your Tour Leader in the hotel lobby at 6pm for talks and giving information. Then go to a restaurant for dinner together at your own expense.
Overnight at Ratanakosin hotel (Tel . 66-53-234800), 190 Ratanakosin Road, Chiang Mai

DAY 02  : CHIANG MAI - CHIANG RAI (Breakfast)
Breakfast at the hotel.  At 8 am transfer to Chiang Rai about 3 hours drive through teak forests, up mountains and down valleys passing provincial towns and villages. Arriving in Chiang Rai your T/L will help you to check-in at the hotel and talk to you. (Optional tour) Meeting of T/L and group at 6pm in the hotel lobby for talks and giving information to group, then he will take you to a restaurant for dinner at your own expense.
Overnight at The North Hotel, 612/100/101 Sirikorn Market, T. Wiang, A. Muang, Chiang Rai

DAY 03:   CHIANG RAI – TOUR   (Breakfast)
Breakfast at the hotel. Meet your T/L for talks in the hotel lobby and go for a tour up the river to visit some hill tribe villages.  Walk to the boat jetty to board a long-tail boat to cruise up the Kok River visiting a Karen village where you can ride an elephant by paying a small charge and a Lahu hill tribe village.  Go with T/L to downtown Chiang Rai for a walkabout to get familiarized with this small town.  Visit Wat Phra Kaew and Wat Phra Singh, the two major temples and monastic school, see the huge day market and browse about at the Night Market. Return to your hotel nearby.
Overnight at The North Hotel, Chiang Rai

DAY 04  :  CHIANG RAI - LUANG PRABANG
At 7am transfer to Chiang Khong with your T/L, a 2-hour drive through lovely scenery, here to do the immigration formalities for crossing the border into Huay Xai (Laos). After clearance at Lao immigration (visa-on-arrival fee is US$30), transfer to the fast boat landing. Excursion by speedboat down the Mekong River to Luang Prabang, arriving in Luang Prabang jetty at about 5pm, and transfer to hotel. T/L will help you check-in and talk to you giving you information.  Go to a restaurant together with T/L at your own expense. Stroll along the very interesting main street of Thanon Sisavangvong with your T/L, and browse in the Hmong night market.
Overnight at Udomsuk Guesthouse or similar, Luang Prabang.

DAY 05:  LUANG PRABANG – SIGHTSEEING TOUR   (Breakfast)
Breakfast at the hotel.  Meet T/L at breakfast time for talks, followed by a morning walking tour of this heritage town – to the former royal palace, typical Lao temples including the Watermelon Temple and the best of them all, Wat Xieng Thong. (All entrance fees included.)  We end this morning’s tour of Luang Prabang in the main street of Thanon Sisavangvong where there are many cafes and restaurants with roadside stalls selling baquette sandwiches and French-type pastries.  Free at your own leisure in the afternoon.  Meeting of T/L with group at 6pm in the hotel lobby for talks, and go to a restaurant for dinner together at your own expense.
Overnight at Udomsuk Guesthouse or similar, Luang Prabang.

DAY 06:    LUANG PRABANG  (Breakfast)
Breakfast at the hotel.  Meet T/L at breakfast time for talks.
(Optional tour by boat to cruise up the Mekong River to the Pak Ou Caves and visit the whisky-distilling village of Ban Xiang Hai to see the best whisky being made and the embroidery works of the villagers before returning to Luang Prabang.)
Meeting of T/L with group at 6pm in the hotel lobby for talks, and go to a restaurant for dinner together at your own expense.
Overnight at Udomsuk Guesthouse or similar, Luang Prabang.

DAY 07  : LUANG PRABANG - VANG VIENG (Breakfast)
Breakfast at the hotel.  Depart with your T/L at 9.30am on the public bus to Vang Vieng through fantastic countryside.  Arrive in Vang Vieng, transfer to hotel and be at leisure.  T/L will check you in. Meet the T/L in the hotel lobby at 6pm for talks and go for an evening meal in a restaurant together.
Overnight at Dokkhun 1 Guesthouse (Tel. 856-23-511032 or mobile 856-20-5623555), Sisavang Village, Vang Vieng.

DAY 08  : VANG VIENG   (Breakfast)
Breakfast at the hotel.  Meet your T/L at breakfast for talks.  (Optional tour.)
Meeting of T/L with group at 6pm in the hotel lobby for talks, and go to a restaurant for dinner at your own expense.
Overnight at Dokkhun 1 Guesthouse, Vang Vieng.

DAY 09  : VANG VIENG    (Breakfast)
Breakfast at the hotel.  Meet your T/L at breakfast for talks. (Optional tour.)
Meeting of T/L with group at 6pm in the hotel lobby for talks, and go to a restaurant for dinner at your own expense.
Overnight at Dokkhun 1 Guesthouse, Vang Vieng.

DAY 10  : VANG VIENG - VIENTIANE   (Breakfast)
Breakfast at the hotel.  Morning departure at 9.30am with your T/L to the bus station to board the 10am bus to Vientiane.  Upon arrival in Vientiane, transfer to hotel.  T/L will check you into hotel and introduce you to a Lao herbal sauna (US$1 entrance) and Lao massage (US$3 per hour) if you like.
Meet T/L in hotel lobby at 6pm for talks and go to dinner with him.
Overnight at Malinamphu Guesthouse (Tel. 856-21-215093), 114 Pangkham Road, Vientiane.

DAY 11  : VIENTIANE - NONG KHAI -    (Breakfast)
Breakfast at the hotel.  T/L will take you by tuk-tuk on a morning tour of Vientiane visiting the Haw Pha Kaew, Wat Si Saket, Patuxai. At 13.00 pm transfer to the Friendship Bridge spanning Laos and Thailand. T/L will take you across to Nong Khai and transfer to the railway station later on. Board the night express train #69 to Bangkok accompanied by your T/L, departing at 19:40pm.
Overnight on train in 2nd Class air-conditioned berth.  

DAY 12: BANGKOK   (Breakfast)
Arrive in Bangkok at about 6am and be transferred by taxi to the hotel. T/L will help you check-in and talk to you about what you can do in Bangkok. 
Overnight at Sawasdee Khaosan Inn (Tel. 66-2-6294798), 18 Chakapong Road, Banglampoo, Bangkok.   

DAY 13: BANGKOK - DEPARTURE  (Breakfast)
Breakfast at the hotel.  Check out of hotel by noon.

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