Koffie's coffee workshop is a one day workshop that includes Koffie's coffee tour plus in the morning and a hands on wok roasting session in the afternoon.
We start around 9 a.m. After a tasty cup of coffee we start the tour by going to our organic coffee plantation and organic coffee farm, everything is explained from a Laos and an European perspective.
After a lunch break and the wok roasting tutorial you are ready to return with your own wok roasted high quality coffee around 4 p.m. (4.30 last bus to Sekong/Attapeu, 5.30 last bus to Pakse/Vientiane)
Paksong Koffie's Coffee workshop Paksong.
Since Paksong is a very quiet, rural Lao place, as a visitor you will appreciate a friendly European face who can help you enjoy your stay with a unique concept called Koffie's Coffee Workshop.
Small Coffee Plantations.
The Dutchman Koffie was traveling in Asia, visited Tibet and lived in Thailand a couple of years and bought some coffee in Paksong to roast and ship to people around the world. The nickname Koffie was given at age 2 when he started drinking the leftover coffee from his mother's coffee cup.
It was in Paksong on a coffee buying trip that Koffie fell in love with the local coffee trader, daughter of a big family with several small coffee farms.
When Koffie visited Paksong as a traveller he recognized the need for a coffee workshop in the coffee capital of Laos and had an excellent excuse to develop one at the moment he was married and became a resident of Laos.
This is truly a coffee center of the world tour given by a coffee lover named Koffie.
Koffie speaks fluent English, German, Dutch and reasonable Polish. He's working on his Lao every day.
Booking or Reservation.
Please make your booking or reservation by telephone or by email so that we know you are comming, see the contact page.
Travel info.
In short: Use any transportation from Pakse to Paksong, its in Paksong on the mainroad just 400 meter after the junction with the market.
From Pakse to Paksong
Leave Pakse at 7.00 a.m. by motorcycle or with a local bus from the big market in Pakse (7.30), you will be in Paksong between 8 and 9.00 a.m. early enough to have your first cup of good coffee and do the tour or the trekking.
- before 11.00 a.m. Small local buses are leaving from the big market (km 2) to Paksong.
- before 4 p.m. there are different 'VIP' buses to Attapeu which will stop at Paksong.
- rent a motorbike in one of the hotels in Pakse, its a very nice road to Paksong (50 kms) with a lot of sceneries and its easy to navigate.
- use one of the tourists tuk-tuks, they will bring you to Paksong and stay with you the rest of the day.
Look for the blont sign: "COFFEE" just 400 meters out of the center from Paksong on your loop to Tat Lo / Sekong / Attapeu
From Paksong back to Pakse
- The last bus to Pakse leaves between 5 and 6 p.m. Its the VIP bus in the direction of Vientiane and stops in front of the coffee workshop.
From Paksong to Sekong or Attapeu
- The last bus to Sekong / Attapeu leaves around 4 p.m.and stops also in front of the coffee workshop.
From Tat Lo (Tad Lo) or Saravan to Paksong
Take the bus to Pakse, drive to km 21 and take the bus to Paksong or Attapeu. Ask the driver to stop 400 meters out of the center in the direction of Attapeu.
Use the Hop-on Hop-off bus from Tat Lo to Pakse.
With the motorcycle you go to Ban Beng, from there straith to Ta Theng and follow the road to Pakse, at km 50 is Paksong, the coffee workshop is just 400 meters before the "center" on your left hand.
From Vientiane to Paksong
- Take the VIP sleepbus from 8.30 p.m. to Pakse, you will arrive in Pakse at 6 am. take the morning local bus at the big market to Paksong or go to Pakse and take the 4 o'clock bus at KM 8 in the direction of Attapeu.
or
Take the VIP King of the Road bus from 8.30 p.m. to Paksong/Attapeu. This bus stops the next morning in front of the coffee workshop in Paksong. (white sign with "Daily Fresh Roasted Coffee" on it, 400 meters out of the center from Paksong in the direction of Attapeu)
From Ubon Ratchatani in Thailand to Paksong
- Take the international VIP bus to Pakse (3 hours), take at "km 8" in Pakse at 3.15 the VIP bus in the direction of Attapeu, 1 hour later the bus stops in front of the coffee workshop in Paksong.
Short travel info:
Drive to Paksong, on the main road, at your right hand side you see a sign "COFFEE"
Freshly roasted Lao coffee in Paksong
The only place at the Bolaven Plateau with WiFi is at koffie's place in Paksong.
