Day 1 Hanoi - Lao Cai
You will be met up with our guide at your hotel in Hanoi. Overnight train to Lao
Cai.
Overnight: On train
Meals included: None
Day 2: Lao Cai – Bac Ha
Arrive Laocai station early this morning. You will be greeted by our local team
and transferred to a local restaurant for breakfast. Drive through the famous
market town of Bac Ha and beyond over one of Vietnam’s highest road passes. This
is a full day in the vehicle, though there’s no time to get bored as the scenery
is truly breathtaking.
Overnight: Ngan Nga hotel
Meals included: Breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Day 3: Bac Ha – Hoang Su Phi – Ha Giang
Upon leaving Bac Ha we set off on a full day journey through Sin Man and Hoang
Su Phi to Ha Giang Town. The rough but scenic route traverses a dense jungle
before crossing over a pass and dropping down to Sin Man. This day is a real
challenge for our driver as we travel by winding roads with many uphill and down
hill drives. Along the way we may encounter the Nung Ing, Tay, Red Dao, Dao Ao
Dai, La Chi and Co Lao, just some of the many hill tribe groups who have settled
there.
Overnight: Truong Xuan ecolodge resort
Meals included: Breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Day 4: Ha Giang – Khau Lan
You have the opportunity to participate a guided tour in the Ha Giang museum
followed by an early lunch. The guides pick you up at the hotel and you travel
by Transfer to the commune Centre in Quyet Tien. There from you will walk about
3 hours to Khau Lan village, passing green paddy fields, little villages and
beautiful forests. In Khau Lan – the Dao people, you meet the village leader and
your host families. Arround 6.30 pm. All the tour members will have dinner at
one family and split later to spend the night in three or four different host
families.
Overnight: at homestay
Meals included: Breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Day 5: Khau Lan Trekking
Khau Lan is a small village of the Dao people. You have the unique opportunity
to share the daily life of your host family, which might include working in the
fields, fetching wood, cutting grass for the livestock and cooking meals.
Depending on the activity, you have lunch on different spots, outside the
village. After another local meal for dinner, you might spend the evening
sitting together around a fire, discussing and laughing with the local people
then you will spend another night at your host family’s house.
Overnight: at homestay
Meals included: Breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Day 6: Khau Lan – Lang Tan
After breakfast and farewell with the hosts, you take another trail back to
Quyet Tien commune center, passing beautiful caves, streams and forests. The
Transfer bring you to Quan Ba District town, where you have about 2 hours time
to take a shower and relax in the district guesthouse or take a walk through the
small town. Around 2 pm. Your guides will pick you up to travel by Transfer to
Thanh Van Commune. After a short walk (30 minutes) you will arrive in Lang Tan
village. Lang Tan is a small village of Hmong people. The village is placed in
rugged mountains which makes planting rice difficult. In order to increase their
income, the villagers developed a special maize wine production. After you have
met the village leader and your second host family, then there is plenty of time
is available to walk around in the pretty village and meet the people. In the
evening the group will enjoy a local dinner and sleep in Hmong style houses.
Overnight: at homestay
Meals included: Breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Day 7: Lang Tan Trekking
Together with a Asia Pacific Travel guide and a local pathfinder you walk over
hills and through forests, villages of Hmong and Dao people to Can Ty Commune
where the Transfer is waiting for you. The car takes you through beautifully
landscape to Dong Van Town, visiting the vestige of Hmong kingdom on route.
Around 6.30 pm. All the members of the tour check-in a small hotel in Dong Van
and take dinner in a local restaurant.
Overnight: at homestay
Meals included: Breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Day 8: Lang Tan – Quan Ba passing Meo Vac
The Transfer take you through a beautiful landscape of rolling and imposing
mountains and steep valleys leading from Dong Van to Meo Vac District. This is
the most remote corner of Vietnam, where the traditional life of ethnic minority
people is the most vivid and colorful. After lunch in Yen Minh town, the cars
take you to Hop Tien village. In Hop Tien you can visit a hemp cooperative,
where local people explain and demonstrate the traditional hemp production
(including dyeing with natural colors, weaving and decorating). Around 5.30pm.
You will travel back to Quan Ba town, where you check in the comfortable
district guesthouse.
At 6.30 pm you go out for dinner in a local restaurant before you spend the
night in the guesthouse.
Overnight: at Tam Son hotel
Meals included: Breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Day 9: Quan Ba Trekking
After a local breakfast you will have time to visit the very colorful market in
Quan Ba town. On this market you will see people from different ethnic minority
groups, which walk all the way from their mountain villages to Quan Ba town, in
order to trade items and meet other people. 12.00 am. You will have dinner in a
local restaurant in Quan Ba town. 6.30 pm Dinner in a local restaurant in Quan
Ba town and overnight in the district guesthouse.
Overnight: at Tam Son hotel
Meals included: Breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Day 10: Quan Ba – Hanoi
In Quan Ba visit an incredible local market. Different minority people descend
from their mountain villages to trade items and meet other people. Begin the
drive back to Hanoi. End of service
Meals included: Breakfast and lunch
Tour includes:
• Accommodation with daily breakfasts
• Extra meals as per the itinerary
• Local English speaking tour guide
• Private transfer round trip by 7 seater
• Tours and excursions as described in the program
• Entrance fees and permits where applicable during guided time
Tour excludes:
• Pre & post trip arrangements
• Transfers beyond the itinerary
• Entrance fees and permits during free time
• Travel insurance (compulsory)
• Food & drinks not mentioned within the itinerary
• Tips and gratuities
• Expenses of a personal nature such as bar bills, laundry and telephone charges
• Other services not clearly described in the program
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