Wat Phou: Ticket Price & Shuttle Cart from the Museum to the Hillside
Foreign visitor tickets are around 50,000 LAK including the electric cart from the museum to the baray — go before 10:00 to beat the heat (sample).
Southern Champasak (Wat Phou – Si Phan Don)
Photo: Basile Morin / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0The UNESCO site of Wat Phou is open roughly 08:00–18:00. Buy your ticket at the museum building by the entrance — around 50,000 LAK for foreign visitors (sample), including an electric cart to the far side of the baray. From there it's a walk up the stone stairway to the sanctuary at the foot of Phou Kao.
From Champasak town it's about 10 km by bicycle or tuk-tuk; from Pakse a chartered van takes about 1 hour each way. Dress modestly (shoulders and knees covered) and carry water.
Sample data — ticket prices and hours must be checked with the site management.
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