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  • Chaerin
    24 contributions
    5.0 of 5 bubbles
    Make sure you have both hands free when you're climbing up and down. You're clambering over rocks and tree stumps and wooden steps the entire time, it's exhausting (but fun), but doable in half an hour. Coming down is quicker although a bit more tricky. I was there at 08:30 on a January morning but even in those cooler conditions, it's very hot and sweaty getting up there. The view is beautiful though, although I didn't take a photo on one of the bikes. Also, they've got rubbish bags up at the top, as I guess tourists were just leaving crap up there before.
    Written 5 February 2025
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  • Jason S
    Melbourne, Australia2 667 contributions
    4.0 of 5 bubbles
    I enjoyed it and had a relaxing time tubing through the caves.

    It’s not an absolute spectacular thing to do but was fun and refreshing.

    I did it independently hired a motorbike and went myself it’s was extremely unorganised and no one there to show you or explain anything to you. I think they only care about tour companies to be honest.

    Lucky a private tour guide that was showing 2 Germans around said come with us and he organised getting in tune etc. No staff approached me at all?

    When you get on time with your helmet/light you pull yourself through the cave on ropes that are hooked up,

    It’s simple and easy and any age group can do it, not an absolute must while in Vang Vieng but a nice fun experience.

    Cost is about 20.000kip with entry, parking etc so fairly cheap.
    Written 7 January 2020
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  • DotsGirl2
    Vancouver, Canada464 contributions
    4.0 of 5 bubbles
    You need to climb 328 steps to reach the entrance to the cave. Once there enjoy the view. The cave is very large with a lit pathway inside. I thought it was great. My friend has been to many caves so she was less impressed. After we came down we went over to see the stream that comes out of the cave. There were kids swimming in it. It looked refreshing as we were very hot.
    Written 15 February 2024
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  • Trixie70
    Mandurah, Australia374 contributions
    4.0 of 5 bubbles
    My husband and I arrived and thought straight away how we had preferred Lagoon 2. It was great to see people enjoying themselves on the Zipline and splashing into the water but for us we preferred Lagoon 2, as it was quieter. (This could have just been our luck at the time of day we arrived).
    We chose to take the walk and climb up to the viewpoint at Lagoon 3. It was beautiful at the top but a little bit of a strenuous climb and then squeezing between the rocks to get to the top!
    The swim was needed in the Lagoon after which was very nice, although I made sure to swim far away from where I saw a man gob in the water, gross!
    Written 23 January 2025
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  • Janet G
    Washington DC, DC24 contributions
    4.0 of 5 bubbles
    tour groups and local families are concentrated around the lagoon, head to the back for the cliff climb and cave. the entrance is easy to miss but look for the trash bin with a circular entrance to the left. you do need a light, but not necessarily the headlamp that's sold outside.
    Written 4 December 2024
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  • David
    Oxford, UK1 920 contributions
    5.0 of 5 bubbles
    There is a bit of a lack of precision on TripAdvisor on which Viewpoint is which. For example, there are quite a few photos with the motorbike on this page, but to the best of my understanding, that didn't reflect the viewpoint I was at! Which I think was called Pha Ngern Big Top.

    So, a more general comment - great views! The hike is worth it!!
    Written 1 August 2023
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  • Nguyễn Đức Nguyễn
    Hanoi, Vietnam135 contributions
    4.0 of 5 bubbles
    I had to park my scooter from the outside and walked the way down but they to the bottom stream but the way back was blocked the day i went.My sandals were full of mud after some hikes so the little stream made it clean again.You have to mark a pin near the waterfall to find the way there,it was "better-paved" than the other part of Vang Vieng but the best thing for me not the waterfall but the locals smiling at me on the way there.
    Written 22 August 2024
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  • Suraj Y
    25 contributions
    4.0 of 5 bubbles
    hoi caves! where we got lost. terrifying.
    always carry complete information before entering an unknown place. better with a guide as well. we were 1 km inside the dark cave with no course of action or idea. there are no signs or instructions. the people issuing tickets don’t speak english.

    when we arrived at a water spot, there were three treacherous passages through the uncertain waters. i read on google reviews about some person wrongly writing that there was way through them. i went through all three to even narrow, slippery, and sharp edges. got into an even more deep. absolutely mortifying.

    the actual route is to come to the waters and return to the entry cuz there ain’t no exit.
    Written 19 December 2023
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  • SEs
    London, UK25 229 contributions
    4.0 of 5 bubbles
    This is a beautiful Buddhist temple is in the city centre. You will not miss this Buddhist temple when you are going around town.
    Written 6 December 2018
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  • jl_t1992
    11 contributions
    3.0 of 5 bubbles
    We have just come back from doing Pha Poak climb, and overall it was alright. It really is a dangerous climb with old ladders and nothing but sharp rocks to climb onto most of the way up (which I actually found quite fun climbing). However after successfully climbing up and down, and then visiting the cave nearby, on our way back the man selling tickets called us over to him.

    To begin with we weren’t quite sure what he wanted but then we could hear a girl on the hill screaming and falling down the side of it. She had gone off path and he had told her to go back but it was too late. We had to translate for him and call to the girl who sounded OK but was stuck, as every time she tried to walk she fell further down the cliff. The man selling tickets insisted we go climb and help her, which we were very apprehensive about in case we also fell and got stuck. We ran up part of it to try see if we could communicate with her easier or see her but she was too far round for us to get to.

    We ran back down and the man said he would go and get his friend, who then ran up the climb with a rope to try and find her. After a while the man told us it was OK and it sounded as if his friend had made it to the girl, but it made it pretty obvious that if you do fall and get stuck it could turn very ugly if you fall somewhere unreachable.

    If you plan on visiting please be careful. There is no path and it is very easy to fall at any point if you’re not confident in climbing up or down steep rocks. And make sure you stick to the path, not that there really is one...
    Written 9 March 2019
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  • David B
    Rayong, Thailand9 302 contributions
    4.0 of 5 bubbles
    We had bought our car across the border from Thailand and had a free day, and on the advice of some expatriate Frenchmen we had met the day before, we set off to the outskirts of Vientiane to find the Elephant Village.

    It was not that hard and within 40 minutes had navigated to it.

    There were about five adult elephants in the elephant corral, with two calves and their mother in another enclosure.

    The adult elephants were kitted up with houdas, but even though elephants have been domesticated for thousands of years, I do not like the idea that we should subject these majestic animals to our tourist whims by riding them.

    Instead we bought heaps of bananas and sugar cane and amused ourselves for half an hour feeding them.

    The calves were particularly voracious, poking their trunks through the railings and trying to snatch whole bunches of bananas from our hands. The adult elephants thumped the wooden staging floor with their trunks demanding their share.

    Here's an interesting fact that I bet you did not know. Elephants have more than 40,000 muscles in their trunks. Humans have a grand total of 639 in their whole bodies. Remember that one for your next trivial pursuit contest.
    Written 23 March 2019
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  • Jason S
    Melbourne, Australia2 667 contributions
    4.0 of 5 bubbles
    Difficult to rate if you have been traveling through SE Asia as compared to Myanmar and Thailand Wats this would be a minor temple.

    Nice and peacefully Wat only a few hundred metres from city centre.

    Has some great details to it and a nice large golden Buddha.

    If Laos your first stop than you will really enjoy it if you have seen many others then this will be a little boring for you.
    Written 6 January 2020
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