Paksong is located in Southern Laos at the Bolaven Plateau in the Champasak province.
1 hour from Pakse, 3 hours from 'Si Pan Don' (4.000 islands) and 4 hours from Ubon Ratchatani (Thailand)
Laos Coffee, famous around the world.
Trip suggestions for Paksong at the Bolaven Plateau
There are 2 different busses to Paksong, the small local bus and the normal local bus. ( See transportation *)
The trip from Pakse to Paksong is between 1 and 2 hours, it cost you 25.000 kip or less.
Also by bus the scenery is one of a 1001 nights, you'lll see on your left and right hand side diffent "ban-nok's", minorities, restaurants and waterfalls.
When you planned to follow the coffee workshop or the Paksong Coffee Tour you can ask the driver to stop at "Mr Coffee" whats 400 meters out of the "center" in the direction of Attapeu.
This trip is 2 x 50 kms and the driving time with a motorcycle is 2 x 2 hours.
With a simple calculation this mean that when you start at 8 a.m.you can spend 6 hours for other things then sitting on your bike. At 6.30 p.m. its dark in Southern Laos.
Trip Suggestions
1 day trip from Pakse to Paksong at the Bolaven Plateau
The road from Pakse to Paksong is good and very easy to navigate, with a lot of nice sceneries, waterfalls, coffee-trees and at the endpoint very fresh roasted coffee.
Start in the Lankham area and follow road 13, thats the road in the direction of the roundabout and the big market.
This road you have to follow for 50 kms. Near km 8 the name from the road change into road 16. (road 13 goes from there a 120 km to the 4.000 islands.)
At km 16 and at km 21 are nice spots for a break and where you can buy some fresh fruit. (breakfast?)
Between km 21 to km 38 you will climb very smoothly a 1000 meter.
At km 38 until km 42 are some very nice waterfalls.
After and during rainfall in the Rainy Seison the dirt roads can be very bad.!
The Tat Fane Waterfall is at km 38 on your right hand. This waterfall has a fall from 120 meter. On your left hand is a less extreme one, but its one with 4 streams next to eachother, you can float or swim in the water or have your picnic under the waterfall.
All other waterfalls on your way to Paksong are also very nice, a description you can find at this special Bolaven waterfall page.
At km 50, at an altitude of 1300 masl, there is Paksong, in the coffee harvest seizon you can see the red coffee berries drying in the sun.
You have to drive 400 meters more on road 16 and you can drink fresh roasted coffee on your right hand. This is also the place where you can buy your italian roasted organic coffee beans directly from a Bolaven family or have a coffee workshop from 8am to 4pm. ( see Map Paksong )
We offer also a 2 hours Paksong Coffee Tour, everything explained: from seedling to processing.
Bolaven Plateau Paksong Travel Info
last update
Feb 28 2010
ATM's are only in Pakse and Attapeu
Some external links:
More info in Dutch about Laos and the Bolaven Plateau: Travelmarker.nl and TM reizen
Trip suggestion from Pakse to Tad Lo.
(Pakse - Paksong - Tatheng - Tat Lo - Pakse)
(Pakse - Paksong - Attapeu - Sekong - Tatheng - Tat Lo - Pakse)
From Paksong to Tat Lo by bus
From Paksong you have to go a little bit back into the direction of Pakse, at km 21 you can take the bus into the direction of Saravan what will stop in Tat Lo. ( See transportation )
-The small street next to the bridge will bring you to the guesthouses which are located next to the Tat Lo waterfall.
-In Tat Lo are bicycles and motorcycles for rent.
The latest bus back to Pakse is the 'King of bus' VIP bus to Vientiane, this VIP bus departs between 5.30 p.m. and 6.30 Laos Time in front of the Coffee Workshop. ( see map of Paksong )
The latest VIP bus in Pakong arrives at 5.30 AM the next morning in Vientiane.
A top selection wok roasted coffee you can buy at Ban Won in Paksong.
Trip suggestion from Pakse to Paksong by bus.
