Southern Laos
Bolaven Plateau Highlights Half Day Tour
A perfect 110-kilometer taste of the plateau's tallest waterfalls, artisan craft, and botanical coffee tasting.
This streamlined half-day program offers a perfect taste of the Bolaven Plateau's unique culture and stunning natural beauty. Covering a total distance of approximately 110 kilometers, your journey sweeps through traditional craft villages, the tallest twin waterfalls in Laos, and an organic plantation garden café before returning to Pakse in time for lunch.
Highlights
- Efficient 110 km loop ideal for tight travel schedules
- Tad Fane twin cascades viewpoint (120 meters height)
- Graceful Tad Yeuang jungle waterfall and bottom swimming pool
- Traditional artisan forging demonstrations at Ban Blacksmith village
- Relaxing countryside coffee or fruit shake tasting at Café Lak 40
08:30 – 08:50 AM : Ban Blacksmith Village
Departure from your hotel in Pakse center at 08:00 AM. Your first cultural stop is at Ban Blacksmith village, spread out along the main access road to Bolaven. Observe several small family-run workshops creating various farming tools, machetes, and knives forged in simple open smithies. Note: There is no active forging work on Buddha days.
Artisans at work in Ban Blacksmith village
09:40 – 10:30 AM : Dramatic Tad Fane Cascades
After a short drive up the plateau, reach the twin falls of Tad Fane. Towering at 120 meters, they are the tallest in the country. A spacious wooden platform at the edge of the cliff offers clear, unobstructed views of the double torrent dropping down a volcanic gap. Adventurers can choose to book a zipline flight across the deep canyon. (Note: Falls may be obscured by mist during peaks of the rainy season).
The spectacular 120m twin cascades of Tad Fane
11:40 AM – 12:40 PM : Tad Yeuang Waterfall & Lunch
Our next stop is the graceful Tad Yeuang waterfall, featuring twin streams plunging 40 meters down an idyllic jungle cliff. Grab lunch at the local restaurant in the Tad Yeuang waterfall area. Please be careful when taking the stairs down to join the waterfalls as they are slippery! It is perfectly fine to swim at the bottom pool.
The beautiful 40-meter drop at Tad Yeuang
12:40 – 13:20 PM : Café Lak 40 Tasting
From Tad Gneuyang, the tour proceeds back to the main road to stop for quality coffee, cocoa, tea, or fruit shakes from their own production at Café Lak 40. Amidst a lush evergreen garden of plants and trees mainly indigenous to Bolaven, this charming place holds a coffee and tea processing facility open for interested visitors. A wide selection of organic products from the Bolaven is available here.
Fresh organic treats at Café Lak 40
14:00 PM : Return to Pakse
Board the vehicle for a relaxing drive back down the plateau mountain slopes, arriving back at your hotel in Pakse center at approximately 14:00 PM.
Duration: Half Day (~6 hours) · Total Distance: ~110 Kilometers · Departure: 8:00 AM · Return: 14:00 PM