Pha Tad Ke Botanical Garden is located on the opposite site of the Mekong River. With the area of 40 hectares, Pha Tad Ke Botanical Garden need a scientist team and nearly 50 Lao staff. The garden includes a variety of plants, including a ginger garden, limestone and arboretum.
The plants in the garden also have therapeutic effects, and they can be used for medical purposes.
Actually, Pha Tad Ke botanical garden has total 10 areas. They are Limestone Habitat (with 20,000 sq. m); Ethno-botanic Garden (with 3,000 sq. m); Ginger Garden (with 1,200 sq. m); Arboretum (25,000 sq. m); Palm Garden (6,000 sq. m); Bamboo Garden (4,000 sq. m); Mist House (300 sq. m); Orchid Nursery (500 sq. m); Organic & Educational Garden (1,500 sq. m) and Permaculture Demonstration Farm (1,000 sq. m).
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Coming to Pha Tad Ke botanical garden, you can enjoy a broad range of tours and activities. You may integrate with nature through special interests, such as: take part in garden excursion, botanical drawing workshop, one-hour workshops. If you love physical activities, you can experience mountain trek and Botanical Field Trip on the Mekong river. Additionally, you can take pleasure in a photography workshop or enjoy a boat trip of nearly 15 minutes.
Furthermore, when visiting this botanical garden, you can also enjoy coffee with tasty flavor as well as take pleasure in provincial products and artworks in the gift shop.
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Especially, from October 15 th, Pha Tad Ke Botanical Garden presents 3 amazing activities, including full-day cruise down the Mekong River to Kuang Si waterfall; full-day cruise up the Mekong River to Pak Ou Buddha Cave and half-day botanical drawing workshop.
– Admission fee: US$25 (for adults) and US$10 (for children under 12); this price has included the boat fee. The price of one-hour workshop is $18/person.
– Opening hours: from 08:00 am to 06:00 pm (you should remember that Garden and Reception do not open on Wednesday).
– How to get to Pha Tad Ke Botanical Garden: Pha Tad Ke Botanical Garden located just 15 minutes from Luang Prabang. You can take a boat in Ban Wat That.
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