Mai Chau Pu Luong Nature Reserve Escape 4days

170km - 3 hours trekking

08:00: Pick you up at your hotel in Hanoi, departing to Mai Chau (140km-4h drive), passing the beautiful landscapes of rice terraced fields, sugar cane fields and ethnicvillages. You will arrive at Poom Coong hamlet around noon. Have a lunch with local food (vegetarian meal available)

Afternoon, trekking to visit Pom Coong hamlet with vegetable gardens, fish ponds, stilthouses, rice paddies and discover the Thai’s daily life.

Continue your 3-hour trekking in Pu Luong Nature Reserve before reaching Hang village. Dinner and overnight at a Thai stilt house in Hang Village.

Note: Car is available if you are unable to trek.

5-6 hours trekking

Breakfast with the host family. Around 8:00, you start a trekking about 5-6 hours passing through some steep slopes and streams to reach a place that gives you beautiful views of the valley, rice terraces and forests.

Picnic lunch on the way to Eo Ken hamlet. Arrival at Kho Muong hamlet nestled between karst mountains and beautiful rice terraces. Dinner and overnight at a stilt house in Kho Muonghamlet.

3.5 hours of trekking

Homestay breakfast in Kho Muong. Your trekking will last about 3.5 hours before arriving in Pho Doan, where you will have the opportunity to visit its Sunday market.

Lunch at a local restaurant in Pho Doan before transferring to Tam Coc in Ninh Binh province, which is called "Halong Bay of Land". Overnight at hotel in Tam Coc.

Full day to discover Ninh Binh, one of the most famous sites in Vietnam, also known as "Halong Bay" with many limestone hills and tunnels dug by erosion. Enjoy a 2-hour sampan ride through the rocky peaks of Tam Coc.

Then bike tour (note: bus transfer for those who do not want to ride a bike) to the Bich Dong pagoda (2km) located on hillside.

Continue the bike ride to Hoa Lu - ancient capital of Vietnam in the 10th century to visit the temples dedicated to Dinh and Le Kings. (Note: Depending on your state of health, you can continue cycling to Hoa Lu (8km from Tam Coc), otherwise you can be transferred by private car). End of the tour, heading back Hanoi afternoon!