This 30 km tour around the Luang Namtha Valley includes visits to villages of Black Tai, Tai Leu and Lanten ethnic minorities. You will see silk production and silk weaving with natural dyes, a Lao alcohol distillery, mountain vistas, and expanses of rice paddy as well as visit a small waterfall. In the cold season learn about Lanten paper making. Coming back to town, stop at the provincial wet market before riding on to That Phoum Pouk Stupa

Itinerary: Boat Landing - Ban Poung – Ban Nam Thoung - Ban Nam Dee - That Phoum Pouk Stupa - Boat Landing

Departing from Boat Landing Guesthouse, we cycle to Ban Poung of the Black Tai minority, Nam Thoung of the Tai Leu minority and Ban Nam Dee of the Lanten minority. We will see silk production and silk weaving with natural dyes, a Lao alcohol distillery, mountain vistas, and expanses of rice paddy as well as visit a small waterfall. In the cold season, we can learn about Lanten paper making. Lunch will include local village food prepared by Tai Leu villagers. On the way back to town, we stop at the provincial wet market before riding on to That Phoum Pouk Stupa and then back to the Boat Landing Guesthouse.

Approximately: 6 hours cycling

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• NT-C-44 (1 day)

* Maximum of 8 per tour

	: Green Discovery, overhead, equipment costs, marketing, product development, profit 39%
	: Guides, drivers 15%
	: Villagers 27%
	: Community-BBased Tourism Development Fund 6%
	: Taxes 13%

Green Discovery recognizes that the welfare of our business depends on the welfare of the people, communities and environment around us. It is for that reason that we take extra effort to ensure that benefits from our trips are distributed broadly. Each trip is a bit different but all trips benefit the local economy and contribute to protecting the environment. The guides, drivers, the food and most of the villagers benefit from your presence. Most notably you’ll see that every village we visit not only receives some of the money that you paid for the tour, they also are active business partners in the tour. We also pay $2 per day per person to the National Protected Area and set aside 10% of the above expenses for training of guides, villagers and development of more community-based tourism programs.

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