This idyllic village-town lies on the banks of the Nam Song River, in central Laos. Vang Vieng river offers the visitor with many unexplored tunnels and caverns, stunning mountain scenery and access to fascinating hill tribe villages. Accommodation in this sleepy town is riverside, offering sublime morning and evening views.

In Vang Vieng you can do trekking tours, homestaying tours, sightseeing tours and tubing tours with grades ranging from easy to hard adventure. Vang Vieng is 160km north of Vientiane and 170 km south of Luang Prabang. The road trip from Vientiane to Luang Prabang offers fresh countryside sceneries while the journey between Vang Vieng and Luang Prabang offers arduous and mountainous feel.