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Day 1: Ha Noi – Thong Nguyen, Ha Giang (L,D).
8:30: You will be met up with Lotussia Travel team at your hotel in Hanoi (please advise us your hotel name) and transferred to Thong Nguyen (Ha Giang Province).
Enjoy several stops along the way for stunning scenery of the northern countryside and the Vietnam far north mountainous region.
You will arrive in Thong Nguyen at about 5 pm. Check into the Pan Hou ecolodge for dinner and overnight.
Day 2: Trekking (B,L,D).
After breakfast, we will leave the ecolodge following a small trail for about 2 km leading to the Thong Nguyen Commune center.
We will trek uphill on a dirt trail for about 2 hours and then hike downhill for 1,5 hour passing by some small villages of the Nung ethnic group.
Lunch will be provided en route.
After lunch, we continue trekking uphill along a magnificent valley, sneaking on mountain sides which offers great scenery of the villages of the Nung and Zao scattering around the valley.
We will arrive at the village around late afternoon.
Dinner and overnight in a local house (Homestay).
Day 3: Continue trekking. Visit ethnic village. Homestay (B,L,D).
After breakfast, we will say good bye to the Nung local host and continue our hike on a single dirt trail for 3 hours. We hike uphill passing two villages of the Dao peoples. This part of the trek offers marvelous landscapes for its beauty of nature.
Lunch will be provided on the foot of a mountain.
The trail gets narrower in the afternoon, winding its way up and downhill for 4 hours through local hill tribe villages (Dao & Nung). We hike then through bamboo and thick rain forest as well as tea plantation.
We will arrive in Nam Li village around late afternoon. Check into a local village house for dinner and overnight.
Day 4: Continue trekking. Visit ethnic village. Homestay (B,L,D).
After breakfast, we will leave the village of Nam Li at 08.30.
The trek today is a real challenge! The narrow dirt trail sneaks its way mostly uphill (from 370 m to 622 m high) through an untouched region. We trek through several small villages of the Nung and the Red Zao who will be very impressed when they see foreign tourists come to their villages.
Then the trek goes through thick forest before we arrive at the top of the mountain range. Lunch break. After lunch, the trail gets wider as we descend to another village is also an authentic one, inhabited by the H’mong people who used to grow poppy for opium production until recently. Spend an hour to explore this village before continue trekking downhill to the center of the commune.
We will arrive in Che La village at about 5,30 pm. Check into a local house for dinner and overnight.
Day 5: Continue trekking. Visit ethnic village. Homestay (B,L,D).
After breakfast, we will leave the village of Che La at 08.30.
It is an easy trek today! The dirt path is large and gradually goes downhill for about four hours, passing through tea plantation, terraced rice paddies and villages of the Nung, H’mong and Zao.
Lunch will be provided en route.
Once reaching the bottom of the valley, the group will injoy a short break of about one hour by the clear water of a stream. Then go trekking uphill for 2 km to the homestay where we will spend the night.
Dinner and overnight in a local house.
Day 6: Continue trekking. Visit ethnic village. Travel to Bac Ha (B,L,D).
After breakfast, we leave Nam Chien at 08.30.
The first hour is an easy walk along a large path to Nam Dan. Here the group will spend half hour to admire a wonder: The rock field including some dozen rocks of different sizes and shapes bearing messages of the ancient men.
Lunch en route.
Then, we will follow a narrow trail for 2 hours. We trek through the thick rain forest. After three-hour trek, we reach a H’mong in mid afternoon. You will be picked up by Lotussia vehicle and transferred to Bac Ha.
Check-in hotel. Dinner in a local restaurant in Bac Ha.
Day 7: Visit Can Cau market. Transfer to Laocai. Overnight train back to Ha Noi (B,L).
Situated 20 km from Bac Ha, Can Cau is a small market, but very colorful. Opening only on Saturdays, it always delivers a very photogenic display of Flower Hmong, Black Zao, Phu La ethnic costumes. After spending the whole morning exploring the market, you will leave the market for Bac Ha town for lunch.
In the afternoon, transfer to Lao Cai where you will take the overnight train back to Hanoi. Train ??? Departure at ??? (To be advised).
Day 8: Arrive Hanoi. End.
Arrive Hanoi Train Station early this morning at ??? (to be advised). End of Lotussia Travel service.
For more information about tour departure and cost, visit http://www.lotussiatravel.com/vietnam-tour/trekking-hiking-tours/trek-ha-giang-bac-ha-in-north-vietnam.html
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