The trip to Konglor cave wasn’t hard, Laos has buses that go directly to Konglor, the town in which the caves are located. The tickets cost 100,000 kip each , I think they are cheaper if you book directly at the bus station. We hadn’t planned on leaving when we did. We woke up in the morning after our 24 hours on a bus and the last thing we felt like doing was getting on another bus for 7 hours, but we went for a wander in the morning looking to hire a scooter to drive all the way to the caves and when we couldn’t find anyone willing to hire out a scooter to travel that distance a lady told us the bus was leaving in 10 minutes so we quickly packed our things and jumped on. It took about 7 hours which wouldn’t have been so bad if again they didn’t blast Asian pop music and I mean blast. I had my headphones in with music turned up as loud as possible and I could still hear the music on the bus.
We arrived in Konglor, a small town in the middle of nowhere. There area number of guesthouses available and we checked into phounsouk guesthouse for 60000 kip per night which equates to about 9 AUD. It was by far the nicest accommodation we have stayed In during our trip.
View from the guesthous over Tabacco fields
Konglor cave was a 10 minute walk away. We payed 2000kip for entry to the park and then hired a boat and driver in the park for 120000 kip.
We walked into the mouth of the cave and boarded our little narrow wooden boat. We then travelled 7km through the pitch black cave that weaved through the mountains. A number of times the water was shallow and we had to get out and help pull the boat across the rocks and other times help pull it up small waterfalls. About an hour later we emerged into daylight on the other side of the mountain, stopped for a short while and turned around and did it all again.
Definitely a highlight so far, we highly recommend It.
Now to head somewhere else, just not entirely sure where.
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