Explore the Mighty Mekong River in Laos on a Mekong Kayaks’ cruise or kayaking adventure, with mountain biking, village home-stay, or beach camp

Live the Adventure

Push your boundaries as you follow in the footsteps of famous Lao explorers after whom our tours are named. True pioneers like Francis Garnier, Madeleine Colani, Doudart de Lagrée, Auguste Pavie, Louis de Carné and Henri Mouhot, who mapped much of the region.

These brave men and women were the daring 19th century explorers and adventurers of this lost, and little known wilderness, travelling the rivers in small boats, discovering new tribes, fauna and flora. Many died trying.

Today, many of the remote places you’ll visit on a Mekong Kayaks adventure tour are still “off the map”, not found anywhere, even in Google Maps or Lonely Planet guides. Many of our past cruise and kayaking clients have called it a true life-changing experience, as it becomes a journey of self-discovery and re-connection with oneself as you reevaluate your priorities, and focus on what is really most important to you.

Here’s a genuine client comment:

“We go into these isolated villages with an attitude of superiority; “we have so much more than they have”….. and then we find we don’t. We just have more stuff. Experiencing village life allows us to recognise how over-cluttered, over-indulged and overwhelmingly complex our own lives have become, and part of us yearns for what we see the villager’s have  – a serene, slow-paced simplicity, respect, spiritual possession and self sufficiency.

The gift a visit to the villages gives us is the understanding that richness is not gaining  more but needing less”.

Jill M.