Apsara Hotel and Restaurant

As the Asian Wall Street Journal said about the Apsara, "It's almost too attractive". The restaurant features polished concrete floors and serves modern European and Asian food and the driest Martinis in town. With Chinese-style lanterns hanging in marvelous multicolored clusters and original art on the walls, the use of color, placement of plants and greenery, riverside and mountain views creates a spectacular ambiance and feeling of well-being. The friendly staff just make the Apsara experience even more wonderful.

It quickly became the meeting place for the mainly French expatriate community.

Renovated and reopened in December 2002, it has quickly gained a reputation as a wonderful place to stay in Luang Prabang. All the renovations were done with the approval of the Heritage House office and the building now closely resembles its appearance when first built.

In 2004, a second building was acquired, adding six additional rooms. The name Apsara is a Khmer word for the dancing girls or heavenly nymphs who were employed to please the gods. You can see them carved on most Khmer temples, both in Cambodia and Laos. There is a photograph in the reception area of one of the carvings of an Apsara from Angkor Wat.