You get picked at the hotel at 7h00 a.m by a private tour guide and driver. Getting out of Hanoi capital, we follow the national road 32 to Yen Bai city, then Nghia Lo town.The journey offers you scenic sceneries of rural villages, valleys & mountains through the car windows. Arrive at Nghia Lo around 11h30, check in the homestay and have a lunch with a local family.
In the afternoon, we will cylce to visit surrounding local villages to discover the daily life of local ethnics living the region or Suoi Giang Eco-Park – a part of Hoang Lien national park, where you can find gardens of aged-old green tea trees and learn how the best green tea of Vietnam is made.
After breakfast, we will embark a very scenic transfer passing Tu Le town, imposing Khau Pha pass to approach Mu Cang Chai – the paradise of the most beautiful rice terraces in the world.
After a lunch in a local restaurant, we will do a wonderful trek to view the majestic lanscapes of rice terraces, local villages of Black H’mong & mountains in La Pan Tan commune.This 10km trek is up & down along the community’s paths to view daily life of local tribes and to interact with friendly people; then along buffalo trails to captivate the most impressive terraced rice fields in La Pan Tan commune. Our driver picks us at Ba Nha bridge – the end of this trekking route, and transfer to Thai village in Kim Noi commune for having dinner and homestaying with a local family.
After the breakfast, we say goodbye with the local family and continue with a wonderful trek of 10km to mountain slopes along dirt trails where we can captivate rice stepped fields, Mu Cang Chai town and the daily life of villagers in Che Cu Nha communes.You get picked up en route & drive to Tu Le town for lunch.
In the afternoon, we do a short trek of 6 km down the valley to visit Lim Mong village of H’mong ethnics, get insight of their daily life & cultures.
Dinner & overnight at hotel in Tu Le town.
After breakfast, free at leisure for shopping local products, then get transfer back to Hanoi. Guide will drop you off at your hotel in Hanoi.