Laos Tours

Twenty-four Laos itineraries — Luang Prabang, Vientiane, the Plain of Jars, the slow boat down the Mekong and the overland routes that connect them. Laos is the quietest country World Mate Travel operates in and the one with the least written about it in English, which is part of why the trips here are longer than their neighbours suggest: nothing on this page runs under three days and the median is five, because the distances are real and the roads do not reward hurrying. Nine of these run a week or more. Fourteen of the twenty-four are unpriced, and that is honest rather than evasive — several of these routes depend on river conditions and on which season you travel, and a "from" figure attached to a boat that only runs half the year would mislead. Ask, and the quote comes back with the month you are travelling already accounted for. Laos combines naturally with northern Thailand and with Vietnam, and the border crossings on those routes are ones this office arranges regularly.

• Operating since 2008
• International tour operator licence No. 01-282/2010/TCDL-GP LHQT
• Member of PATA and VITA
• Office in Hanoi, Vietnam
• A trip designer in Hanoi replies within 24 hours.