Ban Luang Cheng

Ban Luang Cheng is remembered as an early settlement of the northern Lao highlands. According to local accounts, Tai Lue migrants from Sipsongpanna established a village of this name in the Muang Xay country around 1260. A story about a meeting between villagers cutting bamboo and a monk named Paxay connects the village with the later name of Muang Xay, a place among the wooded valleys of Oudomxay.