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On this trip you have an opportunity to explore the beautiful sightseeing area. The trip also offers you opportunity to meet very friendly locals ethnic minorities like Phula, H’mong, Tay, Nung…The trekking portion will be 06h -07h per day.
Itinerary:
Day 1: Hanoi – Viet Quang (L, D)
Met up at your hotel in Hanoi by Lotussia Travel team. Transfer to Viet Quang via a pretty road while entering into the dramatic northern mountainous area. Visitor will be overwhelmed by Sublime beauty and serenity. Lunch at popular restaurant in Tuyen Quang. Arrival in Viet Quang at the mid afternoon. Free time to prepare thing for trekking in the day after. Overnight at local guesthouse
Day 2: Viet Quang – Tan Nam (B, L, D)
Transfers to Yen Binh where local porters are ready for the trek (one for each person). Then slight walk towards a PaThen village surrounded by palm trees. Picnic lunch at a beautiful grass field near an ethic primary shool. In the afternoon, the paths descend gradually via some tea plantation before arriving at Tan Nan village of Tay people. Overnight in inhabita. It’s Stilts house
Day 3: Tan Nam – Phieu Lang (B, L, D)
Excursion along the river then penetration in to wild areas. The path is quite easy with some soft limbing up and down, it pass through many water soured and some houses of Man Ao Dai ethnic, Women here dye their teeth black and wear long robe even they go for working in the field. Lunch and break in a pretty stils house of Tay people. Afterwards continuation on the track to reach Phieu Lang village (Dzao people). Warm hospitality. Overnight in habitant’s stilts house.
Day 4: Phieu Lang – Quang Nguyen (B, L, D)
Walk on the trail that contours the hillsides, giving a fantastic view over the faraway mountain range. Meeting again with Man Ao Dai people. The do jot live in community but prefer setting where the have rerrain to cultivate. At the end of the none, arrival at Quang Nguyen a small remote market town situates beside a river. Free time to enjoy fresh dring: beer, coke, even sprite!! Overnight in inhabitant’s stilts house.
Day 5: Quang Nguyen – Coc Dong (B, L,D)
Today is the hardest stage during the entire trip!!! After 2 hours of walking on a flat and fresh path, the dizzy climbing up begins. The small track go under the cover f a thick primary rain forest, quite difficult if rainy but this is the only way local people use to go to Xin Man. Opportunity to see many wild giant butterfly in various color at the attitude of about 2000m, an incredible highland of multiform terraced paddies appear to visitor’s eyes. Picnic lunch beside a waterfall where the washing is possible. Arrival in the mid of afternoon at Coc Dong village of Nung hill tribe very sparseky populated. Overnight in inhabitants stilts house
Day 6: Coc Dong – Coc Re – Coc Pai (B, L, D)
A beautiful day of itinerary by following the local’s way that lines at mid-mountain, along multiform paddies fiel and offer an agreeable landscape. Meeting in the way with ”H’Mong flower” girl who are very beautiful in charming dress with the red color dominating then, some soft up and down trail before descending continuously to Coc Re. The long descend is under the shadow of a newly planted forest with interesting sound of the fauna and flora. Lunch in local restaurant in Coc Re market. The trek continues some more hours towards Coc Pai, a small mountainous town. Overnight in guesthouse.
Day 7: Coc Pai – Bac Ha (B, L, D)
A slight wal around Coc Pai before transferring to Bac Ha by 4 x 4 vehicle. Arrival at Bac Ha by noon. Bac Ha is situated in the highlands and is mostly populated by the beautifully dressed Flower H’Mong minority. Rest of the day for an excursions in the surrounding of Bac Ha. Overnight in hotel.
Day 8: Bac Ha – Coc Ly – Lao Cai – Train to Hanoi (B, L, -)
Continuation of the trip to Trung Do, a beautiful village inhabitance by Tay people with its green rice terraces, Upon arrival at chay River’s bank, embarkation on sampan for a upstream cruise to Coc Ly village where visitors enjoy the weekly multi-ethnic market held on every Tuesdays evening, an ideal place to meet local people. Ethnic groups from every part of the region come here to exchange their agricultural and handicraft products. Transfer to Lao Cai, visit to the border gate between Vietnam and China. In the evening return Hanoi by train. Overnight on train in soft sleeper wagon. End of Lotussia Travel service.
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