The
Bolaven Plateau is an elevated area (between 1000m to 1300m above sea level) located about an hour drive east of Pakse, in southern Laos. It’s slowly becoming a more popular tourist stop in the country, as it’s about halfway between the 4000 Islands in the south, and the capital city, Vientiane, in the north. The Bolaven Plateau
offers many sites for visitors to check out, including waterfalls, coffee and tea plantations, and ethnic villages.
The fruit-like cherries that grow on coffee trees on a coffee plantation in Laos.
Step1: go to Green Tea Plantation
The Vietnamese introduced the green tea plant to Laos back in 1973. The Bolaven Plateau is an ideal place for growing tea, since the plants grow best at altitudes between 600m to 1200m above sea level.
Tea plants growing on the tea plantation.
From the same plant, both green tea and oolong tea can be made, though different techniques are used for each. For green tea, the leaves are picked, dried over a heated plate or pan, then squished to release it’s aroma, and then heated and “burned” for another 2-3 hours. For oolong tea, the leaves are prepared starting the same way as green tea leaves, except after the leaves have been squished, they’re placed into a bag with some warm water, left for 2-3days to ferment in the bag, and then emptied and dried out in the sun.
Step 2: go to Tad Fane Waterfall
The Tad Fane Waterfall is a set of twin waterfalls with a height of 120m, they were very impressive.
Step3: go to Tad Yuang Waterfall
Almost right around the corner was our second waterfall, Tad Yuang Waterfall. Even though this waterfall was only about 60m high, it was still beautiful and offered up a nice cooling mist.
Step4: go to Coffee Plantation
The coffee bean is actually a seed inside a fruit-like cherry that grows on coffee trees. When the cherry is ripe, it is hand picked and soaked in a large vat of water. The best quality beans come from the cherries that sink to the bottom, so anything that is floating on top is scooped up and discarded.
Step5: go to Alak Village
The village was made up of about 60 homes, all laid out in a circular pattern around a communal house. The Alak people strongly believe in spirits and hold an annual buffalo-sacrificing ritual to honour the spirits who protect their village and help their crops.
Step6:The end, go to Tad Lo Waterfall
Tad Lo Waterfall. The waterfalls themselves were small and not particularly spectacular, but they provided a beautiful backdrop for the surrounding area. It seemed as though a number of resorts and guesthouses had been built up around the waterfalls. It would be a really nice and relaxing area to spend a day and night in if time permitted.
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