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Sleeper Bus Sapa Town to Luang Prabang Laos
Luang Prabang became the first capital city of Laos in 1353 and the home city of the Laos royal family until 1975 when control of the country passed to the communist Laos Prathet and the royal family’s importance rapidly disappeared. During that period of over 600 years of royal patronage lots of temples, and an impressive royal palace, were constructed in Luang Prabang. As a consequence of this rich cultural and architectural heritage Luang Prabang was granted UNESCO World Heritage Site status in 1995.
SLEEPER BUS SAPA TO LUANG PRABANG LAOS: 47 USD/Person
This bus is a local sleeper bus everyday departure in the Old Town in Sapa. After 10 hours sleep on the bus, you will have to get off at Tay Trang border in Dien Bien Phu to make Laos visa. Then, you need to change to a local seating bus from this border to head to Luong Prabang. Taking this bus, you will have chance to see amazing mountain view and see local villages long your way to Luong Prabang. It is worth for the long tough journey 27 hours. At this time, we only connect with one way bus from Sapa to Luong Prabang, we hope to find a bus Luong Prabang - Sapa soon in the future.
Travel from Sapa to Luang Prabang
By bus the journey from Sapa to Luang Prabang is scheduled to take from 24 to 25 hours depending upon which bus service you use. A faster option is to take a joint bus and train service which takes around 17 hours.
Border Crossing > SaPa to Luang Prabang
Although we endured an extensive 25 hour bus journey! This route is possible and saves going back to Hanoi to then cross the border over to Luang Prabang.
From SaPa town you can get a ticket from Travel Offices/ Agencies in advance, direct to Luang Prabang.
First leg is SaPa town direct to Dien Bien. This is usually a sleeper bus and takes roughly around 9 hours.
Upon arrival at Dien Bien at approx. 5am there is a short wait until 7am before departing for Luang Prabang. Luckily there are lots of cafes and breakfast joints open in this small town just opposite to the bus station where you can get an early morning bite or snacks for the road.
At 7am the minibus will depart, from here it can take anywhere from the scheduled 8 hours through to 13 hours that is took us. We did have what seemed like ALOT of unscheduled stops, package drop off’s by the driver and his co-workers, pick ups of additional passengers, food and toilet breaks.
The drive isn’t the smoothest nor the straightest so if you are prone to car sickness perhaps forking out a little extra for a flight from Hanoi to Luang Prabang is your best option.
Border control at Tay Trang itself is very organised and pretty seamless. Pass from one window to another as they fill out your ‘visa on arrival’ passport stamp. It’s is $35 for British and U.S citizens and a further $5 for the final stamp. (If you’ve read our border crossing from Cambodia to Vietnam article you will already know that these additional fees are not legal but somehow obligatory and usually end up in the workers pocket)
All in all it is a means to an end and the process is relatively simple. The buses are a much cheaper alternative to flying and once you’ve been in Luang Prabang for a couple of days the memories of endless winding roads soon disappear. Still if you can afford to fly, DO.
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