3 Days trek to survive in the forest and camping in the deep jungle, night 1 in jungle and night 2 in Khmu Ethnic remote village (loop). Code: MX3001.
Overview:
The best and new experience what you have never had and done before and there are no any tour agencies do it in Laos. This is the quite hard and difficult jungle trekking to explore the nice forest, walk up and down mountains through the jungle, go crossing and along river, learning how to survive with finding natural food, collect vegetables from forest, catching fish(fishing), frogs, crabs, putting traps to catch the mice and set up small camp/camps by using banana leaves, learn the way how to cook in bamboo, drink boiled water/nature tea, make bamboo cups for drinking water and sleeping in the jungle. On this trek, you can see and hear the beautiful sound of animals, birds, squirrels and chipmunks singing in morning when you wake up and you also can hear them in the evening before getting dark. The good point of this trekking, it will teach you the ways how to survive in the jungle when you do a jungle trekking by yourself /yourselves.
Day1: Muang Xay Town-Namon Village – jungle trekking -camping point. (_/L/D)
Meet your guide at your guesthouse /hotel in Muang Xay Town and start the tour at 8:30 am in the morning to Namon village /trekking point by a private car/Tuk Tuk, it takes between 25-30minutes. Then we walk up down through the rice and corn fields and go up and down through the jungle and have a picnic lunch on the trek by using green leaves to mak a tray/table for putting our local food on. After having lunch, we keep going until 2-3 pm to find a good place for camping, it’s this time that we have to help each other building a little hut/hut by using banana leaves/other leaves for roofing and make a bed for sleeping. After finishing building the hut/huts, we collect firewood, make a fire, find some natural food (catching fish, crabs and vegetables), this activity is you have to follow your guide/guides and cook it in the bamboo /pot (if necessary) for our picnic dinner and put some traps for catching the mouse/mice in the evening for breakfast next day morning.
After having dinner, we will go catching frogs and crabs at night by using torch/light for 30 minutes /1 hours or 2 hours (depends on you and your guides how much time you need) and then go back to camp for going to bed.
Approximately: 25-30 minutes for car transferring / 4 – 5-hour trekking. Trekking level: moderate and quite hard
Day2: camping point -Namchong village. (B/L/D)
After visiting traps that we put for catching mouse /mice from Day1 and having breakfast, we continue our trekking along river, climbing up little waterfall (difficult point), walk up and down mountains (1000 meters high from sea level), though the jungle and young forest and then heading to Namchong village. On the trek we will collect some vegetables from the forest, catching crabs, cook it in bamboo /pot (if necessary), make bamboo bowls and banana leave spoons and have lunch on the trek there. After having lunch, we continue our Trekking to Namchong village (Khmu Ethnic remote village), explore the village, have basic local food and spend overnight (basic room)with local family there.
Approximately: 4 – 5-hour trekking. Trekking level: quite hard and difficult
Day3: Namchong village - Namhaeng village - back Muang Xay Town. (B/L/_)
After having breakfast in the morning, we heading to Namhaeng village (2-3hours) and have lunch there and then take our private car /Tuk Tuk back town, it takes between 1-hour and 1 hour and 30 minutes and ends the tour at your guesthouse in Muang Xay Town
Approximately: / 2-3-hour trekking,1-1,5 hour for car transferring. Trekking level: moderate.
- Trek starts: At 8:30am at Xaysana Hotel or your guesthouse in town.
- Trek ends: at 4:00 pm at Xaysana Hotel or your guesthouse in town.
What you should bring for the trek:
Sleeping bag, good boots and sandals /flip-flops for crossing river, warm clothes, clothes for changing, shorts, hat/cap, mosquito spray, equipment. sunscreen, sunglasses, raincoat, toothpaste to protect the leeches (apply it on your shoes).
Trekking price per person in Lao kip. Updated in 2024
| Number of pax | 2 | 3 – 4 | 5 – 6 | 7 – 10 up | Extra charge for a private car per group |
| Price per pax | 2,750,000 | 2,570,000 | 2,380,000 | 2,210,000 | 1,700,000 Kip (Lak) |
The price is included: drinking water, local food, all entry fees, Family’s home stay, private transport mentioned in the program, English speaking guide and local guide/guides.
