TR 09: 3 Days Nam Ha jungle trek (Nalan Trail)
The Nalan trail for a 3-day trek is an interesting itinerary for visitors to experience community-related tourism business and adventure ecotourism in the Nam Ha NPA. You have opportunities to learn how to live in the jungle and exchange culture in an ethnic village.
Day 1: Twist yourself for jungle camping (6 – 7 Hours)
Meet at the office at about 9:00 am and then go to the morning market to buy food and drink. Then the Tuk-Tuk brings you to the trekking trail, before trek your tour guide will explain the trails and give you some recommendations about security and what to do in the jungle. Next, start trekking from Nam ha village (the Khmu ethnic) to the campsite. The trail to your camp will pass through primary forests, rainforests, and bamboo forests. When arriving at the lunch site, your tour guide will help you cook Lao food for you. After lunch, continuously walk to the campsite which is at the Nam Ha river bank. When you reach the campsite, your tour guide will teach you to prepare materials for making your camp. In addition, the tour guide will help you to make a fire for cooking and prepare your dinner and then the group will have dinner together – this is a good time for you to learn how life is in the jungle.
Day 2: Trek to Authentic Homestay (6-7 Hours)
After breakfast, ongoing trek to Homestay village (Nalan Village – the Khmu Ethnic). This trail offers you opportunities to see biodiversity in the secondary forests and evergreen forests. You also have a chance to see wildlife footprints and the songs of birds along the trails. When arriving at the Khmu village, check in to your homestay, keep your backpack, and take a bath. After that, the host family and the tour guide will help you to cook the traditional food for your dinner. You have a chance to cook with the host family and have dinner with them. For your dinner, the guide will let you test Lao alcohol and explain Khmu culture to you. If your group reaches 4 people, the team of local artists will show you the traditional and musical performances (this will be provided in the morning for some time). Then, go to bed around 9:00 – 9:30 pm.
Day 3: Trek from Nalan Village to Doyluckham trail (6 hours)
After breakfast, say goodbye to the host family and go on the trekking trail to the Nam Ha NAP. For your final day trek, it is not a hard trail which is different from the first and secondary. You will walk around the mountains for about 3 hours before lunch. After lunch, walk through the lush forest and bamboo forest, and cross the streams in the valley. The team will arrive at 3-4 pm at Doyluckham trail, the Tuk-Tuk will be there to pick you up to the town.
What to prepare on the trip:
- Good hydration is a basic safety measure; make sure that you consume at least 2-3 liters of water per day. For your first day, the tour operator will provide around 2 water bottles. Please, keep always the empty bottle so you can refill the next day
- A good pair of shoes for walking
- A hat or cap
- Sunglasses
- Mosquito repellent/Insect repellent
- Sunscreen
- Toilet paper
- Raincoat (in rainy season, June-Sep)
- Pocket money etc.
- Please wear appropriate suits during the trek
Optional:
- Pocket money
- Snacks, fruit, your own bottle of water
- Your own medicine if you need it.
- Sandals or flip flops
| No of Pax | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
| Price/Pax | $180 | $120 | $100 | $95 | $90 | $87 | $84 | $75 | $65 |
Price Includes:
- English-speaking/local guide
- Transportation
- Food and water
- Nam Ha National Protected Area entry fee
- Community distribution
- Government Taxes and charges
Price excludes:
- Tip and personal expense
Where does the money go?:
Important Do’s & Don’ts:
- Do not give individual gifts or money to children.
- Ask before taking photos of people or spiritual items.
- Help keep the trails clean by not littering.
- Purchasing handicrafts is highly appreciated but do not purchase antiques.
- Do not remove any archeological remains from the site of the ancient temples.
- Always stay with the guides
- Do not use drugs.
Other:
- Please let us know in advance if you are vegetarian or other allergic.
- Please be at our office at 8:30am
- You are welcome to contact us beforehand if you have any questions.
TR 10: 3 Days Samyord Mountain View (Under Improving, Not Open to Book)
The highlight is hiking at a high elevation on Samyord Mount where you can see the landscape of Luang Namtha province – this trail is the provincial protected area. On your trip, you will meet with Hmong people who have unique lives in remote areas and learn about their culture.
Day 1: Trek to Samyord Mount (6 Hours)
Assemble at 8:45 in at the company for having a brief orientation. After that Tuk-TUk will bring you to visit the morning market at 9:00 to buy food and water. After visiting the local morning market, the team will directly go to the trekking trail at Boumphieng Village. Start walking to challenge your trek on Samyord Mount – this will take about 3 hours to arrive. On your trip, you will trek to the route of villagers’ paddy fields and cultivated areas before getting to the jungle. When getting on halfway – it is time for lunch, your tour guide will help you cook Lao food for your picnic lunch. After lunch, walk continuously through deciduous forests and secondary forests before arriving at Sam Yord Kao Village (There are a few families who live for livestock), this place we will make a camp here for overnight. We will have dinner with local people and talk with them about their life in the mountains. Then go to bed at about 9:00 pm.
Day 2: Homestay at Hmong Village (6-7 Hours)
The second day is a bit hard trek to the Hmong village. After finishing your breakfast, continuously walk to Samyor Mai village (Hmong Ethnic). You will walk through the deep jungle and see the flora on the trail. When arriving at the Hmong village, the tour guide will bring you to check in at your homestay and recommend the place to take a bath. After that, it is the time to cook with your host homestay and learn their culture. You have opportunities to see the Hmong tribe wear their traditional clothes – your tour guide will explain their culture and traditions to you. After dinner, go to bed around 9:00 am.
Day 3: Samyord Mai – Namdeng Village (6 Hours)
After breakfast go on to trek at the top of the mountain to see the scenic view of natural landscape and then walk downhill to the Namdeng village. Your final trek is not hard, you will walk through the hunter trails, secondary forests, and villagers’ cultivated areas before reaching the stopping point. Tuk-Tuk will be there to pick you up in the center of town at about 5:00 pm.
What to prepare on the trip:
- Good hydration is a basic safety measure; make sure that you consume at least 2-3 liters of water per day. For your first day, the tour operator will provide around 2 water bottles. Please, keep always the empty bottle so you can refill the next day
- A good pair of shoes for walking
- A hat or cap
- Sunglasses
- Mosquito repellent/Insect repellent
- Sunscreen
- Toilet paper
- Raincoat (in rainy season, June-Sep)
- Pocket money etc.
- Please wear appropriate suits during the trek
Optional:
- Pocket money
- Snacks, fruit, your own bottle of water
- Your own medicine if you need it.
- Sandals or flip flops
| No of Pax | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
| Price/Pax | $175 | $115 | $100 | $95 | $90 | $85 | $80 | $75 | $65 |
Price Includes:
- English-speaking/local guide
- Transportation
- Food and water
- Nam Ha National Protected Area entry fee
- Community distribution
- Government Taxes and charges
Price excludes:
- Tip and personal expense
Where does the money go?:
Important Do’s & Don’ts:
- Do not give individual gifts or money to children.
- Ask before taking photos of people or spiritual items.
- Help keep the trails clean by not littering.
- Purchasing handicrafts is highly appreciated but do not purchase antiques.
- Do not remove any archeological remains from the site of the ancient temples.
- Always stay with the guides
- Do not use drugs.
Other:
- Please let us know in advance if you are vegetarian or other allergic.
- Please be at our office at 8:30am
- You are welcome to contact us beforehand if you have any questions.
TR 11: 3 Days Jungle camp & Homestay in the Nam Ha NPA
This is a unique experience of nature and culture experience through the untouched jungle and village community in Nam Ha NPA with expert forest tour guides, who will teach us about the indigenous people’s lifestyle used by local hunters in round three days in the dense forest, sleep at the banana leaf camp, do fishing and frog hunting. The wildlife jungle camp and village homestay will bring us up to walk deeper into Nam Ha NPA, always learning about medicinal plants and animal habits, cooking species collected on the way without modern utensils at the campsite, and setting traditional hunter self-mad tent.
Day 1: Nam Ha village campsite (7-8 hours)
At 9:00 am, meeting the group and tour guide briefly in the office, and then we get on Tuk Tuk to the starting point. During the way of driving, we stop at the local market to buy some food supplies. The trekking point starts from Nam Ha village, here get a local guide who is well known for the trail, herb, plant, and wildlife tracks in that region. Then we begin the trek through the plantation for 10 minutes before getting into the untouched jungle of the Nam Ha National Protected Area in which you may encounter and hear some wildlife or just see their track, a picnic lunch will be stopping on the way when we are hungry. Our guides will share their ancestral knowledge about the traditional use of medicinal plants, and edible leaves, teach us to set up the traditional hunter camp, and prepare delicious Khmu jungle food, using the supplies and resources of the jungle for a truly unique experience. Thereafter, we continue the trek downhill through the primary forest until the campsite.
Day 2: Campsite-Ban Nalan (6-7 Hours)
In the morning, we can get up early to enjoy many kinds of animals singing to one another from the higher mountain tops around the campsite. After breakfast, follow the way back until the first day stops. From here the trail is in the valley of Nam Ha NPA. After lunch we continue hiking downhill slightly to the stream, where there are a lot of canopies from huge, so we will be arriving at the village before the sun sets. After checking in at your homestay, you have time to walk around the village and learn about their lifestyle, culture, and tradition. After dinner on local food, you will enjoy the tourism activities offered by the community.
Day 3: Nalan village – Namlue village (4-6 Hours)
In the morning we still have time to visit the village, test Lao Coffee or local tea by bamboo cup, and get a chance to practice crossbow shooting and rice ponding by hand.
After breakfast, the team follows the Nam Ha River to Nahome village and through the open cultivated areas of the Khmu and Lanten minority groups. Lanten is a minority group who still wears traditional clothes, makes their textile, and does natural color clothes dyeing and bamboo paper makers (according to the season). After lunch and visiting the village, we gradually trek on a steep hill in the jungle which is more challenging, but it is also more and more beautiful forest, landscape, and canopy. The final descent takes the group past upland cultivated areas tended by the people of Namlue village. The trail steepens here and can be slippery after rainfall. And that is where we end our trek and return to Luang Namtha in the afternoon by Tuk Tuk.
What to prepare on the trip:
- Good hydration is a basic safety measure; make sure that you consume at least 2-3 liters of water per day. For your first day, the tour operator will provide around 2 water bottles. Please, keep always the empty bottle so you can refill the next day
- A good pair of shoes for walking
- A hat or cap
- Sunglasses
- Mosquito repellent/Insect repellent
- Sunscreen
- Toilet paper
- Raincoat (in rainy season, June-Sep)
- Pocket money etc.
- Please wear appropriate suits during the trek
Optional:
- Pocket money
- Snacks, fruit, your own bottle of water
- Your own medicine if you need it.
- Sandals or flip flops
| No of Pax | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
| Price/Pax | $180 | $123 | $112 | $100 | $95 | $85 | $80 | $75 | $70 |
Price Includes:
- English-speaking/local guide
- Transportation
- Food and water
- Nam Ha National Protected Area entry fee
- Community distribution
- Government Taxes and charges
Price excludes:
- Tip and personal expense
Where does the money go?:
Important Do’s & Don’ts:
- Do not give individual gifts or money to children.
- Ask before taking photos of people or spiritual items.
- Help keep the trails clean by not littering.
- Purchasing handicrafts is highly appreciated but do not purchase antiques.
- Do not remove any archeological remains from the site of the ancient temples.
- Always stay with the guides
- Do not use drugs.
Other:
- Please let us know in advance if you are vegetarian or other allergic.
- Please be at our office at 8:30am
- You are welcome to contact us beforehand if you have any questions.
TR 12: 3 Days Trek on Elephant Trail (Under Improving, Not Open to Book)
This trail has been a very old route since the company was established, the highlight is discovering the elephant’s footprint on the elephant trail, you also have opportunities to stay at local homestays in Tai Dam village and Akha village. You will see abundant biodiversity and hear many songs of birds in the jungle.
Day 1: Trek to Namkong Village (Tai Dam Ethnic – 7 hours)
From here the driver will bring you to the trekking trail at 9: 00 am, we will start from Akha village (Nam Lueang village), and walk through the cultivation land before getting to the forest. Then take a few hours to trek through the secondary forests to see flora and natural plants on the trekking route before stopping for lunch. A delicious lunch is prepared and cooked by tour guides. After lunch we continue the trek to Namkong village, so we will be arriving at the village before the sun sets. After checking in at your homestay, you have time to walk around the village and learn about their lifestyle and culture. Then, have dinner with the host homestay, your guide will explain Tai Dam culture and traditions during your dinner time.
Day 2: Namkong to Nam Lueang Village (Akha Ethnic – 7 Hours)
Saying goodbye to the host homestay after finishing breakfast, we continue to trek along the mountains uphill toward visiting Akha village so called Nam Lueang village, this trail you will walk through the elephant trail and have an opportunity to see elephant’s footprints. When arriving at Akha village, check in at a homestay and then take a bath, for this, your tour guide will recommend where you will take bathing. For dinner, you will learn to cook Akha food with your host family, have a meal with them, test AKha alcohol, and experience Akha massage – their massage is very unique and has been descending from their ancestors. Then, go to bed at about 9:00 pm.
Day 3: Nam Lueang Village to Kiewlom Village (Hmong Ethnic) (6-7 Hours)
After finishing breakfast, the tour guide will bring you to visit a local school in the village, teach basic English to kids, and enjoy with kids. After that, we will hike following the local path and through the open cultivated areas of the Akha minority group. From here trek will bring you into the real jungle, sometimes we may cross the stream under the canopy of high trees, and the trail is more challenging, but it is also a more and more beautiful forest, and landscape. We will stop somewhere for a local picnic lunch with Lao traditional food, accompanied by the music of bird songs and chirping cicadas, and learn about plants and wildlife, … After lunch, we walk following the stream until arriving at the Hmong village (Kiewlom village), then which the Tuk-Tuk will be waiting to pick us back to the town center.
What to prepare on the trip:
- Good hydration is a basic safety measure; make sure that you consume at least 2-3 liters of water per day. For your first day, the tour operator will provide around 2 water bottles. Please, keep always the empty bottle so you can refill the next day
- A good pair of shoes for walking
- A hat or cap
- Sunglasses
- Mosquito repellent/Insect repellent
- Sunscreen
- Toilet paper
- Raincoat (in rainy season, June-Sep)
- Pocket money etc.
- Please wear appropriate suits during the trek
Optional:
- Pocket money
- Snacks, fruit, your own bottle of water
- Your own medicine if you need it.
- Sandals or flip flops
| No of Pax | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
| Price/Pax | $185 | $124 | $100 | $95 | $90 | $85 | $80 | $70 | $65 |
Price Includes:
- English-speaking/local guide
- Transportation
- Food and water
- Nam Ha National Protected Area entry fee
- Community distribution
- Government Taxes and charges
Price excludes:
- Tip and personal expense
Where does the money go?:
Important Do’s & Don’ts:
- Do not give individual gifts or money to children.
- Ask before taking photos of people or spiritual items.
- Help keep the trails clean by not littering.
- Purchasing handicrafts is highly appreciated but do not purchase antiques.
- Do not remove any archeological remains from the site of the ancient temples.
- Always stay with the guides
- Do not use drugs.
Other:
- Please let us know in advance if you are vegetarian or other allergic.
- Please be at our office at 8:30am
- You are welcome to contact us beforehand if you have any questions.
