Mai Chau - Mu Cang Chai - Sapa 8 Days Tour

NORTH-WEST VIETNAM ADVENTURE TO MAI CHAU VALLEY - MU CANG CHAI - SAPA

Day 1: NORTHERN VIETNAM ADVENTURE: Hanoi - Mai Chau (B/L/D)

AM: Private guide & car will pick you up & transfer to Mai Chau, passing Vietnam beautiful countryside, villages & valleys...
Noon time: Check in Thai Villages in Mai Chau valley for lunch & relax, check-in homestay.

PM: Walking and exploring villages, meeting local doing their everyday' works and experiencing wonderful hospitality of the Thai people.
Night time: Enjoy the traditional dance performed by the Thai people.

Day 2: NORTHERN VIETNAM ADVENTURE: Mai Chau - Suoi Lon (B/L/D)

Biking & trekking around 4 hours up and down hill & explore amazing culture of H'mong people In Hang Kia and Cun Pheo villages who live along Da river. Boarding a boat and cruise upstream the river for over 3 hours to explore wild life and meet Muong people who earn a living by fishing around this area of the Reservoir. Arriving at Suoi Lon Village of the Muong in the afternoon, you will join the local's work for your experience of local life. Home stay in the village.

Day 3: NORTHERN VIETNAM ADVENTURE: Suoi Lon - Bac Yen - Thu Cuc (B/L/D)

Enjoy a morning short walk out of the Mount village and our jeep and driver will pick us up for a two hours transfer through beautiful area with rich farmland covered by tea plantations. We have long break at noon in a little pretty town Ta Sua, a local center where we have Lunch and walk around the market which is colorful with local farming produces as will as minority handicrafts. Later we take a walk for about 5 km along a track passing villages of Thai and Muong, tea farms, fantastic scenery. Visiting some local homes and tasting local wine which is fermented in pottery jar.
Arriving in Thu Cuc where we stay overnight in another Muong Village.

Day 4: NORTHERN VIETNAM ADVENTURE: Thu Cuc - Nghia Lo (B/L/D)

Depart for Nghia Lo town, passing many beautiful landscapes. Spending about 4 hours walking through a narrow and long valley, we meet three tribal setting their villages in different ways which reveal their traditional customs and living style: The Thai occupy the low land almost at bottom of valleys, near river or streams from which they build up water wheels for transfer water to rice paddies on which they farm wet rice intensively. The H'mong settle at the highest elevation, grow corn and dry rice on the burn-over land and the Zao live in the middle practice both methods of farming and it is easily to realize that they learn a lot of farming technique from the Thai.
Arriving in Nghia Lo, a pretty mountainous town, we spend the remaining hours of the day wandering the town including the market area.

Day 5: NORTHERN VIETNAM ADVENTURE: Nghia Lo - Tu Le (B/L/D)

A easy day to explore the real mountainous life of the local ethnic minority. Trekking along trails through villages, meeting different tribal people such as White Thai, Black Zao, Red H'mong...who seem very surprise, staring at you for the first moment and turn out very friendly and inviting you to their homes in which you will be hosted with tea or home made wine.
We enjoy another home staying in a large Thai village, which offers fantastic hours for your culture discovery.

Day 6: NORTHERN VIETNAM ADVENTURE: Tu Le - Mu Cang Chai - Than Uyen (B/L/D)

Visiting morning market at the center of Tu Le. Tribal peoples from remotest villages in their traditional costumes which are very different from one another go to market with cheerful faces...which makes you surprise!
Leaving the market for a short drive, you will find yourselves in the magnificent area of this unspoiled area, Khau Pha. From the foot of this mountain pass, we challenge a 9 kms trek through thick jungle up to the top of the pass which is at 1,800m above sea level. Enjoy fresh air and great view.

Day 7: NORTHERN VIETNAM ADVENTURE: Than Uyen - Binh Lu - Sapa (B/L/D)

Interacting trible people from Lu minority whose population is just about 5000. Some old Lu men said that their ancestors came to settle in the region from Laos many years ago and they adopted rice farming style of the Thai while maintaining their traditional culture which reveals on women's clothes and jewelry and still keep dying their teeth black.

After lunch, take a cycling trip to Sapa, the way will be excellent & you will have amazing picture from gorgeous views. Arriving in Sa Pa in the late afternoon, relax & explore Sapa town on your own.

Day 8: NORTHERN VIETNAM ADVENTURE: Sapa villages explore - Overnight train back to Hanoi (B/L/D)

AM: A short drive to Y Linh Ho then trek through the rice terraces and along Muong Hoa valley to the Black Hmong village of Lao Chai to see the spectacular landscape of Hoang Lien Son Mountain after that heading to Ta Van village - home of Dzay ethnic people.

PM: Depart for Hanoi capital by one of the most beatiful high way in Vietnam. Enjoy amazing countryside of Vietnam. The package tour with Vietnam tonkin travel will be finished in Hanoi around 8.00 pm.

Package price: in USD per person

​Please take a note that this price can be change upon period. If you need further details on our updated quotes, kindly email us at vietnamtonkintravel@gmail.com or info@vietnamtonkintravel.com directly.

TRIP NOTE:

• Viet Nam is a developing country whose infrastructure may differ from what you expect in your homeland. Road conditions are poor and accommodation may be basic in mountain region.
• Good weather for trekking time from September until June of the year. We recommend you to bring rain jacket, inner sleeping sheets, walking boots, warm clothes, lamp torch, and toilet papers.
• Occasionally, this itinerary may be amended for reasons beyond our control such as weather and roads conditions.

Trip includes

• 2 bottles of water, tissues /per person/per day
• Modern private car 
• English speaking tour
• Meals & accommodation as itinerary
• All entrance tickets to indicated sites
• Deluxe services, homestays & hotel on twin sharing basis

Trip excludes

• Beverages, travel insurance, VAT, personal expenses
• Others not clearly mentioned above

Thing to bring

• Warm clothes, scarf, hat, cap because the weather in North-west is pretty unpredictable. It is normally cold in September, October, November, December, January, February and March
• Due to altitude of North-West, it is sometimes foggy in December, January, February and March.
• Trekking shoes, sun glasses, sun cream, insect repellent are also necessary. You should take cash with you in Vietnam Dong because banking system in North-west sometimes doesn’t function well. US Dollar, Euro, Australia Dollar are accepted in North-west Vietnam.
• You should take medicine with you although there are some chemist’s shops in North-west in case you get sick.