Luang Prabang eSIM
In Luang Prabang you connect to Unitel or Lao Telecom, whichever is performing better where you are standing. The median across the country is 26 Mbps. Your data starts working the moment you land, before you reach the immigration hall.
- Networks
- Unitel and Lao Telecom
- Real speed in Laos
- 26 Mbps median, 6 Mbps for the slowest tenth118 travellers across Laos, rolling 90 days
- 5G
- 4G only
- Throttle
- None on metered plans
- Tethering
- Allowed on every plan
Plans that cover Luang Prabang
| Data | Validity | Price per GB | Price | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 GB | Never expires | $7.89 | $7.89 | |
| 3 GB | Never expires | $4.63 | $13.89 | |
| 5 GBMost travellers | Never expires | $3.98 | $19.89 | |
| 10 GB | Never expires | $3.19 | $31.89 | |
| 20 GB | Never expires | $2.69 | $53.89 |
How Laos compares across Asia
- Speed rank
- 23 of 26 destinations we sell in Asia
- Regional median
- 44 Mbps
- Consistency
- The slowest tenth still reaches 23 percent of the median
- Upstream networks
- 2, Unitel, Lao Telecom
- 5G
- 4G only
- Next fastest nearby
- Sri Lanka, 27 Mbps
- Next slowest nearby
- Pakistan, 25 Mbps
- Cities with their own page
- 2: Vientiane, Luang Prabang
- tenth percentile
- 6 Mbps
- Behind these figures
- 118 travellers, rolling 90 days
Landing at Luang Prabang International Airport (LPQ)
- Airport
- LPQ / VLLB
- Distance
- 4 km from the centre of Luang Prabang
Getting into Luang Prabang
- Laos-China Railway fast train from Vientiane, about 91 minutes. Runs through tunnels, where a signal drops
- Route 13 bus from Vientiane
Worth knowing about Luang Prabang
- The Laos-China Railway cut the trip from Vientiane to under three hours, where it used to take three days by road; the fast train covers the leg in about 1 hour 31 minutes and the ordinary train in 2 hours 15.
- Daily buses from Vientiane on Route 13 still take 11 to 13 hours, so the train and the road are not remotely comparable journeys.
- Luang Prabang's railway station is 168 km down the line from the Chinese border at Boten, and the line runs mostly in tunnel 75 of them over 47% of its length.
- The airport is about 4 km from the centre of Luang Prabang and is the country's second busiest, with regional flights to Bangkok, Chiang Mai and Siem Reap.
Sources for this page
Other cities in Laos we cover
- Vientiane
- 219 km from Luang Prabang, nearest airport VTE