North East Vietnam Discovery

You will leave from Hanoi at around 08:00 and take the road north towards Viet Tri and Tuyen Quang (Route No.2 ) through the Red River Delta region. You will stop for lunch at a local restaurant in Tuyen Quang Town, an area famous for green tea plantations. You will arrive in Ha Giang at around 18:00 where you will have dinner and spend the night with a Thai family in their traditional stilt house.

Today you will encounter some spectacular landscapes. After acquiring a mandatory permit at the Immigration Office, you will begin your journey to Dong Van across a series of long passes. You will have lunch en route in the small but beautiful mountain town of Tam Son. Then, you will head to the majestic King of the H’mong’s Palace, a fortress built by a local chief, Vuong Chin Duc, who was allied with the French against the Viet Minh. The palace, built in the early 1900s was designed in the ancient Chinese architectural style of the Man Qing era. It was made from materials such as solid stone, wood and terracotta tiles.  Arrive in Dong Van town in the late afternoon, check in hotel and rest after long journey. In the evening, discover Dong Van town by night. Overnight at hotel in Dong Van.

If you are lucky, you will have chance to visit colorful weekly market locate right in the centre of the town ( open only on Sunday). Have breakfast at local restaurant. Then you are driven to Ma Le village of the White Hmong people where we walk about 8 km to visit and take photo of this mountain tribe people, keep walking to Thien Huong village to witness the local people do flax weaving. After that we are driven back to Dong Van town to have lunch before reaching the Ma Pi Leng Pass to admire panoramic of rocky mountain. From here we can walk to some remote villages to see Pu Peo, La Chi, White Hmong tribes. We arrive at Meo Vac in the late afternoon, you check in your hotel and relaxing at your hotel.

After breakfast at local restaurant. Depart to Bao Lac, we then continue snaking through the mountains, cross the river, and arrive in the village of Bao Lac, where we have luch and we take the mountain road Bao Lac – Cao Bang. Arrive in Cao Bang in the afternoon, check in hotel and relax after long journey from Meo Vac.

Say good bye to the Host of our home stay, we walk inside Babe national park to enjoy scenery of the jungles and Babe lake from the high level, then, our car comes to pick you up to drive to Thainguyen for lunch at a local restaurant. After lunch, we will visit a nice museum in Thainguyen city, The Musuem of the Cultures of Vietnam’s Ethnic Groups with the showing of 54 Ethnic Groups living in Vietnam. Drive back Hanoi in the late afternoon, drop you at hotel, end trips.