Preparations are underway for Visit Laos Year 2012, during which the country aims to attract some 2.3 million tourists. While Laos currently offers scores of natural, cultural, and historic attractions, and tour programs that take them in, many more are expected to come online for the year-long event. Among them are the Mekong Promenade in Vientiane, several of the 10 highlights along the “Tea Caravan Trail” in the northwest mountains, and a host of offerings in Sayaboury Province. Roadwork is also ongoing throughout the country to provide quicker and better access.
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Hongsa Town is now offering a choice of five elephant treks ranging from two hours to three days in northeast Sayaboury Province. The two-hour treks head into nearby forests, while two-and-three-day journeys climb mountains and travel along rivers to remote villages and overnight home stays. Those on the three-day treks can end their elephant odyssey with a three-to-four-hour Mekong River boat ride to Luang Prabang. A Hongsa Tourist Information Center is also being constructed on the town’s main road.
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ElefantAsia has confirmed a September groundbreaking for its Sayaboury Elephant Sanctuary on 100,000 hectares of an island in the Nam Tien Reservoir just outside of Sayaboury Town. The NGO, dedicated to protecting Lao elephants, expects to begin offering tourism activities at the conservation and breeding center in February 2011, and will add more in phases leading up to its slated late-2013 completion. Plans call for bungalows, elephant treks, a mahout school, elephant museum, training demonstrations and more.
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