November 5, 2026

The guides are employed, not called in

What a living wage looks like on a Tuesday in the low season.

Tiger Trail’s guides are on the payroll, with insurance and a year of work rather than a phone call when a van is full. Training sits in the quiet months. That is why a Tuesday in August still has a guide who knows the trail after rain.

The company was founded in 2000 in Luang Prabang and still works from Ban That Luang.