Luang Prabang: Lao Cooking Class & Kuang Si Falls Tour
ID: GYG387149-700997
Category:
Country: Laos
Duration:
08:00 hours
Description
Enjoy a full day of discovering Lao culture. Take part in a weaving experience, cook your own traditional lunch and visit the Kuang Si Falls.
Spend a full day cooking traditional and authentic Lao food and exploring the Kuang Si falls. Begin your journey with a tuk-tuk pick-up from your hotel at 8.30 AM and head to a rustic pavilion modeled on a traditional Lao house in a picturesque setting.
After a warm welcome, your guide will explain how bamboo is a key part of Lao culture and how numerous items found in Lao households are made from the versatile bamboo plant, including fishing tools and musical instruments.
Then, try your hand at weaving a souvenir mat made from strips of the bamboo plant. Your local teacher will guide you through techniques that have been used for hundreds of years.
Learn how to sharpen knives and cut bamboo into strips, then make a small mat using an overlapping weaving process. After admiring your finished creation, learn how the bamboo plant also plays a vital role in everyday Lao cuisine.
In a hands-on workshop, you will then assist a chef in cooking traditional local dishes such as bamboo shoot soup, bamboo shoot steamed in banana leaf, and bamboo shoot dip. After class, relax on the terrace and enjoy your culinary creations along with views of the countryside.
After lunch, you will visit the most beautiful waterfalls in Luang Prabang, the mighty Kuang Si falls. You will also get to see the sun bears living in the rescue center inside the falls.
Finally, enjoy swimming in the turquoise pool inside the falls before being transferred back to your hotel in Luang Prabang in the evening.
Highlights
- Learn about the importance of bamboo in Laos culture
- Combine Laotian cuisine with crafts on this combined activity
- Enjoy a fun and interactive cooking class using bamboo shoots
- Visit Kuang si waterfalls and see the bear sanctuary
- Dip into the pools of the spectacular waterfalls
Guiding languages
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
• You will have plenty of photo-taking opportunities and village visits en route
• Short hiking at the falls is possible
• There is an option to visit the Laos Buffalo Dairy if time permits. Please ask the driver to stop for a short visit
Please wait in the hotel lobby 5 minutes before your scheduled pickup time. Drivers will wait no longer than 5 minutes after the scheduled pickup time.
When should I book?
To guarantee availability book as soon as possible. Early booking is worth consideration especially if you planning the trip during high season like public holidays or weekends.
Cancellations
This excursion you can cancel with no cost up to 24 hours before the start of the trip. If you cancel it after 24 hours or not show up on the excursion you will still be charged the full price of the activity. Being late on pick-up or departure will be considered as not showing up.
