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Kong Lor Cave
A cave few will ever enter · Ban Kong Lor, Laos
Photo: Jakub Hałun · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
4.7★Rating
929Reviews
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Nov–Mar cool dry season, when the river is navigableBest time
The experience
A wooden longtail boat carries you 7.5 km through a pitch-black river tunnel under the Phou Hin Boun karst, emerging into a lost valley of remote villages on the far side.
Reached only via the Thakhek Loop backroads; most Laos itineraries never leave the Vang Vieng–Luang Prabang axis.
underground riverkarstpitch darklongtail boats
It's only worth the detour Nov–Mar cool dry season, when the river is navigable. Turn up outside that window and you're looking at a different place; we'd rather say so than sell you the photo.
Where it is
Ban Kong Lor, Laos · Khammouane Province. Coordinates from the listing we sourced it from.
DirectionsWhat a membership adds.
Everything above is free: the name, the photo, the rating, the exact spot. What members get is the part you can't Google: the sourced insider tip for this place (what to order, when to go, what to skip), every day of your trips unlocked in full with the insider tip on every researched stop, and the concierge at full strength, answering with your own insider tips, no daily meter.
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