Budget 3,000 baht for 2 days 1 night to play zipline in southern Laos (each type)
Not for adventurers or backpackers, don't do this
1️⃣ First day of the trip 🚞 Train: We took the 3rd class train, express train number 139 from Nakhon Ratchasima Station at 00.23 - Ubon Ratchathani Station at 06.15. The ticket price is 168 baht. Traveling by train is considered to be on time, +- no more than 10 minutes. Great!
🛺 Songthaew: Walk out from the front of Ubon Ratchathani Railway Station and wait for the songthaew at the fire station. It's easy. Open GPS and follow this https://maps.app.goo.gl/2ef4E5zSNjFyvSuJ9 The fare is 12 baht per person. Take it from the train station to Ubon Bus Terminal. It takes about 30 minutes.
🚌 Bus: Ubon - Pakse: Buy at the bus ticket counter, Bus Terminal 99, 200 baht per person, ride all the way to Pakse. But he will stop for you to go through immigration. It takes about 3 and a half hours to travel. We arrive at Pakse bus station at around 1:30 PM. There is an immigration overtime fee of 5 baht per person. Pay on the bus (Hey! There is something like this too).
💵 Exchange money at the immigration checkpoint. We got a rate of 640. The Lao immigration fee is 100 baht per person if you pay Thai baht. But if you pay kip, it is around 50,000 kip or about 79 baht. If you pay in kip, it will be cheaper.
🏍️ Rent a motorbike right at the bus station. Automatic 300 baht/day, gear 200 baht/day. Sign the contract and wait to receive the bike. There is no deposit. But they will keep 1 passport. There are many gas stations. You can fill up with 50,000 kip at a time. I recommend not renting an automatic. Very fuel-efficient
🏩Accommodation: Soubandith Hotel, 620 baht/room. We slept 2 people, 310 baht per person. No breakfast, but the room was very good, clean, soft bed, hair dryer, and most importantly, there was a bathtub for soaking in. The accommodation is located next to Dao Rueng Market in the center of Pakse.
⛰️After checking in to the hotel, at around 2:30 p.m., we rode a motorbike to Tad Fane Waterfall, a distance of about 40 km. It took about 1 hour. When we arrived, we bought a ticket for about 35 baht/person. Then we walked to the zipline point, which cost 1,100 baht/person. If anyone wants to take pictures for you, it costs an additional 200 baht/person. It takes about 30 minutes to play. After playing, we went back. Didn't go anywhere else because of time constraints.
🥓For dinner, we ate Sindaat or grilled pork at "Ran Det Nang Sok Bup Fai Sia Dod" restaurant. Search the name and follow the GPS on Google. The price including drinks is about 120 baht per person. I recommend trying the "Nom Moo". It's really delicious and crunchy. We had 3 refills.
🍺For late night, we went to "View Bar", a restaurant that serves bubbly drinks and has live music, mostly Thai songs. The restaurant has full lighting, colors, and sounds. Anyone who likes listening to 90s and 2000s music will definitely enjoy it.
2️⃣ The second day of the trip
☕️Breakfast starts with coffee from “Tea Room Dao Coffee”, an original coffee shop. Dao Coffee is an Arabica coffee from the Bolaven Plateau. The atmosphere of the shop is very inviting and clean. The menu we ordered was a hot Americano. The taste is considered very good, not bitter or sour, just right. Asking the staff, they said it was a light roast coffee. So we ordered several bags as souvenirs. We also tried the pate, which is French bread with pork sausage and minced chicken liver. Personally, I didn't like the taste of minced chicken liver today, so I pushed it out. The dough is delicious and chewy. If you want to follow, press this GPS: https://maps.app.goo.gl/4UN52BDXQYEKsYfU9?g_st=ic 🍜Next, let's eat Pho and Khao Piak at Lao Viet Noodle Soup, a restaurant in Pakse-Luang Prabang. This is a restaurant that we found by accident. We drove past and saw that there were a lot of people. A lot of people = delicious. Let's go. This restaurant is full of locals. There are no tourists. It's cheap, delicious, and big bowls. It's about 40-50 baht/bowl. If you want to go, follow the GPS. Click here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/ih3UUeLqT5ZrBW5v8?g_st=ic
🟢It's 09.00. Return the motorbike to Pakse bus station and wait for the bus. Pakse-Ubon tour bus departs at 9.40 and arrives at Ubon Bus Terminal at around 13.30, giving us a little time to explore Ubon city. 🚌 On the way back to Korat, we took the Ubon Air tour bus. We asked several times what time the bus would leave and when it would arrive in Korat. The driver said the bus would leave at 15.30 and arrive in Korat at 20.00. So we bought a ticket, but it wasn't like what was said because we drove around the world and actually arrived in Korat at 12.30 midnight. The service was not up to standard and we were not impressed at all. If you are in a hurry, don't take Ubon Air. I have warned you! This line is famous. But if you are a chill person, go for it. 👍 Pros - You can travel even if you have little time - Make a decision and go immediately, done. 👎 Cons - You can't go everywhere. You have to choose only the places you really want to go to - Your body will be tired and exhausted. But if you are an adventurous type, don't worry - I would like to underline that those who like beautiful and chill should not follow this trip.
💵Total expenses for 2 people (recorded in real time)- Overtime fee for immigration 5 baht per person =10- Food 100 baht + 355 baht +190 baht ~645 baht- Landing fee, arrival 100000 kip ~ 157- Zipline fee + Waterfall entrance fee 1100 + 1094 baht- Accommodation 400000~ 625 baht- Transportation fee from Pakse to the bus station 280000 kip ~ 438 baht- Motorbike rental 191500 ~300 baht- Gas 50000 + 25000 ~ 117 baht- Transportation fee from Pakse bus station 400 baht- Songthaew, train station to the bus station 24 baht- Train to 168 +168 ~336 baht- Tad Yueng fee 45000 ~ 70 Baht- Tad Fane entrance fee 45,000 ~ 70 baht- Beer price 169,000 ~ 264 baht- Ubon-Korat bus fare 728 baht / 2 people 6,378 / 2 = 3,189 / person
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