Laos Trains

Laos-China Railway train tickets

Timetables, every stop and live booking for all 10 routes on the Laos-China Railway, from Vientiane to Vang Vieng, Luang Prabang, the small stations of northern Laos and across the border to Kunming. Fares start from US$ 11.80.

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10 routes
12 stations
from US$ 11.80 per seat
No Lao phone number needed
All routes

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Choose a route to see every train, the full list of stops, classes and how far ahead you can book.

From Vientiane

To Trains / day Fastest From
Vientiane to Vang Vieng 5 trains daily 52m US$ 11.80 Timetable →
Vientiane to Luang Prabang 5 trains daily 1h46m US$ 19.80 Timetable →
Vientiane to Kunming 2 trains daily 9h19m US$ 86.70 Timetable →

From Vang Vieng

To Trains / day Fastest From
Vang Vieng to Vientiane 5 trains daily 52m US$ 11.80 Timetable →
Vang Vieng to Luang Prabang 5 trains daily 51m US$ 11.80 Timetable →

From Luang Prabang

To Trains / day Fastest From
Luang Prabang to Vientiane 5 trains daily 1h46m US$ 19.80 Timetable →
Luang Prabang to Vang Vieng 5 trains daily 51m US$ 11.80 Timetable →
Luang Prabang to Muang Xai 2 trains daily 51m US$ 11.80 Timetable →
Luang Prabang to Kunming 2 trains daily 7h29m US$ 66.70 Timetable →

From Boten

To Trains / day Fastest From
Boten to Luang Prabang 3 trains daily 1h23m US$ 17.80 Timetable →
Verified LCR schedules. Times and fares from Laos-China Railway. Last verified: 29/09/2026

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About the author

Maxence Decamp, founder of YesMyTrips, on a boat in Southeast Asia.

Maxence Decamp

French, based in Southeast Asia since 2017

I spent six years in transport booking across Southeast Asia before founding YesMyTrips in 2025. In those years I saw too many travellers arrive at the wrong station, miss their train, or pay two or three times the real fare because of contradictory information found online. The platform exists to make booking simple and reliable.

This editorial site exists for a different reason. Most English language guides to trains in the region are generic, copied from one blog to the next, and often wrong. Here I publish data checked against the official operator systems, and I write the guides from riding the routes myself, not from a search engine.

This blog combines YesMyTrips' regularly verified data and my own travel notes, route by route.