The Plain of Jars is one of Laos’s most famous and baffling tourist attractions. Over the course of hundreds of hilly square kilometers, archaeologists have found what could be as many as 2,500 enormous stone jars from the Southeast Asian Iron Age (500 BC to 200 AD). You may get a better look at this archaeological spectacle of huge carved jars, which are likely used as death urns according to the discovery of bones, teeth, charcoal, and glass beads within some of them, if you leave your hotel and drive 10 kilometers, or 6 miles, to three different sites. After that, stop by the MAG basecamp to get an update on the organization’s latest efforts to rid the country of its unexploded ordnance (UXO) threat. It’s time to head back to your hotel for the day.

Notes:

• Suggested time: 08:30.
• Duration: 7.5 hours.