1 day kayaking tour to Tad Sae waterfall in Luang Prabang - White Elephant Adventures Laos
Thank you to Rémi for making this wonderful video about his family's kayaking tour to Tad Sae waterfall with us last week. We are pleased to see you all had a great day out, and hope you make it back to Laos again one day!
This tour is suitable for all the family including younger children (typically over 5 years) and also for people with no prior kayaking experience. Please enquire for details and availability: info(at)white-elephant-adventures-laos.com
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EXPLORING LAOS 2 - Luang Prabang
The second video of 3 of our time exploring Laos in SE Asia. Because we were short on time we booked onto a tour with White Elephant adventure tours to see a hill tribe village, waterfalls and to complete a 17km kayak with rapids. Great day - I have to admit I don't feel the video does it justice because the GoPro didn't pick up on how beautiful the kayak was! Highly recommend a trip like this.
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Luang Prabang - Elephant Camp - Laos 6/18
Luang Prabang has both natural and historical sites.
Among the natural tourism sites are the Kuang Si Falls, Tat Sae Waterfalls, and Pak Ou Caves. Elephant riding is offered at some sites.
Phou Si, in the center of the town, has broad views of the town and river systems, and is a popular place to watch the sun setting over the Mekong River. At the end of the main street of Luang Prabang is a night market where stalls sell shirts, bracelets, and other souvenirs.
The Haw Kham Royal Palace Museum and the Wat Xieng Thong temple are among the best known historical sites. The town, particularly the main street, is dotted with many smaller wats such as Wat Hosian Voravihane. Every morning at sunrise, monks walk in a procession through the streets accepting alms offered by local residents, an event popular with tourists but subject to some controversy surrounding tourist etiquette.
Mountain biking is quite common, with people often biking around the town or to the waterfalls for the day. Down the Mekong River, a 15-minute boat ride from the city centre, Ban Chan (the pottery village) is an interesting place.
Luang Prabang received 'Best City' in the Wanderlust Travel Awards 2015.
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White elephant located at the Laos zoo, it also gave small rides around the compound
ELEPHANT CAMP near LUANG PRABANG, Laos
When is Laos, check out the gentle giants at an ELEPHANT CAMP near Luang Prabang.
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Village Food in Laos - SPICY CHILI WOOD and AUTHENTIC KHMU FOOD in Luang Prabang!
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During our trip to Luang Prabang, one of my goals was to experience authentic Laos culture. So we set off on a 2 day excursion, into the mountains, not too far from Luang Prabang. The first day we’d spend learning about the Khmu culture and eating local authentic Khmu food. The next day, we’d move onto a Hmong village to eat Hmong food.
We met up with Alex and his team from White Elephant Adventures ( This is not sponsored, I paid in full for this tour, but Alex and his team were gracious to really set us up with a custom tour about food and culture. I highly recommend them for off the beaten path, authentic culture tours in Luang Prabang.
It wasn’t too long of a drive, and we stopped at a variety of markets along the way, but we eventually made it to the Khmu village. It happened to be the village of our guide. It was a gorgeous village, by the river. For lunch we had some simple bamboo shoot mixtures wrapped in banana leaf and steamed. Khmu mainly eat sticky rice.
After lunch we walked around, took a swim in the river, and just hung out, waiting for the dinner festivities.
We purposefully didn’t really make too much of a plan, because we wanted to just see what unfolded naturally at the village. They decided to butcher a small pig for the village and for the evening festivities. They also planned a baci ceremony - a Laos ceremony of blessing, which was an amazing experience and left me feeling so incredibly welcome.
Anyway, after the afternoon swim, the men got started butchering the pig and parting off each piece of meat - serious nose to tail dining - to the person who was designated to cook each different dish. What was amazing to me is that everyone in the community had a role, and each worked diligently for the greater community.
There were so many different local Khmu Lao foods being prepared that I could hardly keep up. But one of the most interesting dishes for me was the or lam, a well know Lao Khmu dish, but this version unlike anything I had tried before. One of the single most amazing ingredient is spicy chili wood - it’s actually a vine that grows in the jungle, and it is really spicy and makes your tongue tingle.
The baci ceremony was spectacular, the meal of all things pig with the community was special, and at the end of the night the children from the village sang us a couple of songs.
It was a fantastic day, delicious authentic and fresh Lao Khmu food, and an incredible time to learn about Khmu culture, and interact with the community.
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Riding elephants in Luang Prabang, Laos
EDIT May 2018: While this, at the age of 22, was a fun travel experience at the time, it's not necessarily an experience I'm proud of now, a few years down the track, armed with more education and life experience. I'd ask that anyone considering taking part in this activity would do some more research about the potential consequences before they go ahead with it. I actually made a video last year about the '5 Travel Experiences I Regret', where I talk specifically about this experience, which may interest you:
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LAOS - TAD SAE WATERFALL AND ELEPHANTS
A roam around the falls and an elephant ride
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Hmong Food - AUTHENTIC BUFFALO FEAST and Community Hmong Meal in Luang Prabang, Laos!
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This is Day 2 of our food culture trip in Laos, if you haven’t seen Khmu Food Part 1, you can watch it here:
We woke up naturally to the sounds in the early morning and sat around and hung out, just enjoying the fresh cool are. We strolled around the Khmu village for a little while before we packed up and headed to a Hmong village not too far away.
When I reached out to you during my trip to Laos and asked you for suggestions one what I should eat or cover, many of you said I should try Hmong food. Now Hmong restaurant are not that common, so the best way to eat Hmong food is to go to a local family home and have them cook. Along with Alex from White Elephant Adventures ( he was able to arrange it for us.
Our Hmong meal was buffalo, all types and variations. The two main and favorite Hmong food dishes they made were raw buffalo with a huge amount of bile, and cooked buffalo with raw blood. We also had some buffalo stew, soup, and roasted buffalo.
Probably the most fascinating thing to me about Hmong culture and food as opposed to most of Laos is that Hmong typically eat white steamed rice as opposed to sticky rice. And unlike just about every other culture I’ve witnessed in Asia, where you get your own bowl of rice and share all the side dishes, in Hmong culture you have a communal bowl of rice and share everything. It may seem different to Western culture, but it really brings out a sense of family and community.
The food was awesome, all things buffalo. I especially liked the raw buffalo with bile, that was the best Hmong food of the meal.
It was an amazing day and I learned a lot about Hmong food, a quick introduction. Thank you for watching!
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Tad Sae Waterfalls
A little trip we did to the Tad Sae Waterfalls close to Luang Prabang, Laos
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A memorable experience riding Elephants in Luang Prabang, Laos while on a trip with Tauck Travel, November 2013.
Laos jumbo elephants by Volo
Bathroom lao for jumbo in Luang phrabang Laos 2013.
Salle de bain pour les éléphants au Laos novembre 2013.
LAOS: Henry Mahout tomb + Tad sae waterfalls
Rented a motorbike in Luang prabang, and just looking on the map, found unexpected stuff...
henri mahout tomb + Tad sae waterfalls
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Luang Prabang Tad Sae Waterfall
Elephant rides (into the water), a long zip line through the trees, numerous rock pools and a small restaurant is what you will find at this waterfall
MandaLao Elephant Sanctuary Laos - Feeding & Bathing the Elephants
Laos - the Land of a Million Elephants.
I was so excited to see, touch and feed an elephant up close… but in reality it was so different… the elephant approached me naturally with no fear as though I was one of them...maybe I was?
It was a deeply satisfying and enjoyable Elephant Encounter with Mandalao Tours in Luang Prabang, Laos.
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