Day 01: Ha Noi – Hoa Binh - Mai Chau – Moc Chau (200kms)
- Heading Mai Chau for the first visit to the white Thai minority
- Get to know their daily life and special architecture of stilt houses
- Enjoy lunch with the locals after strolling throughout narrow lanes of Lac and Khom Coong village of the White Thai
- Drive to Moc Chau for dinner and overnight. Moc Chau is a mountain town at the elevation of 1500 m above the sea, home to the green H’Mong, the Dzao and the Muong ethnic minorities and famous for Its plantations of green tea and milk fresh from the cow
Inclusive services: A landcruiser car, tour guide, entrance fee
Day 02: Moc Chau – Thuan Chau - Son La – Tuan Giao (206kms)
- Breakfast then check out the hotel for a new drive up to Son La
- Visit and collect captivating pictures from the mountain ethnic minority villages dotted on the way
- Up hill to see the old colonial prison.
- Dinner and stay overnight in Tuan Giao – A tranquil mountain main town
Inclusive services: A landcruiser car, tour guide
Day 03: Tuan Giao – Dien Bien Phu – Lai Chau - Paso (200kms)
- After breakfast, another drive to Dien Bien Phu
- Flexible for you to visit Dien Bien Phu old battle field and the war remnant museum, the A1 hill or cemetery for who died in the war or not
- Visit the hot-spring on the way to Paso
- Dinner and overnight in Paso – a quite place among the mountain forest
Inclusive services: A landcruiser car, tour guide, entrance fee
Day 04: Paso - Tam Duong – Sa Pa (120kms) – Home-stay
- Driving over this thread road is a worth visit to the Heavenly gate and Binh Lu deep valley, partitioned by the Fansipan mountain range and Chinese border a beautiful stretch of road with Silver waterfalls.
- Arrive in Sa Pa at around 11h30.
- After lunch, a jeep to Lao Chai village for a trek through Lao Chai of the black H’mong -Ta Van of the Zday-Giang Ta Chai of the red Zdao minority.
- Stay overnight in a red Dzao family to get to know the ethnic minorities’ culture and customs
Inclusive services: A landcruiser car, tour guide, entrance fee, home-stay and meals (B + D)
Day 05: Giang Ta Chai – Su Pan village – Sa Pa
- Get up earlier to observe the daily life of the households, prepare breakfast
- Trek alongside Muong Hoa stream to Su Pan of the Tay minority, awarded the untouched area, special mysterious scenery of forest
- Trek up to the main road for the jeep to return hotel for a relaxing night.
Inclusive services: A landcruiser car, tour guide, entrance fee and meals (B + L)
Day 06: Sapa - Bac Ha – Can Cau every Saturday market
- 07h00 we have breakfast then drive to Bac Ha.
- 10h00 is hight time for you to attend the Market that is regarded as the biggest ethnic market of all Northwest Vietnam. It is organized by about 7 different kinds of hill tribes, with 7 different colors of clothes, as well as traditional customs and local culture from the Tay, the Dzay, the Red Dzao, the Black H’mong… Come to the market for interesting discoveries, as well as getting to know the universal daily life of the hill tribes in Vietnam. Our guide will offer explanations.
- After lunch, we walk to Pho village of the Flower H’mong to enjoy traditional folk music, dancing and musical instruments that you will hear traveling in Vietnam.
- Overnight at Sao Mai hotel in Bac Ha
Inclusive services: A landcruiser car, tour guide
Day 07: Bac Ha – Every Sunday market – Ha Giang
The whole morning for free to attend Bac Ha market
Afternoon drive Ha Giang
Inclusive services: A landcruiser car, tour guide
Day 08: Ha Giang – Quang Ba – Yen Minh - Meo Vac
In the morning
- 07h30 head upon the unique thread road to Dong Van
- Stopover for visits to tribal villages on the paths and nice photos of the heaven gate of Sa Phin
In the afternoon
- After lunch, continue your special drive to Meo Vac
- From the thread road, you can view Ma Pi Leng huge peak and Nho Que deep river
- Trek to visit Muong village, the most remote village of the country
- Drive back to Dong Van for ovenight at the Peolpe’s committee guest house of Dong Van district.
- Free time to discover Dong Van or go to chat with the local minority
Inclusive services: A landcruiser car, tour guide, entrance fee
Day 09: Meo Vac - Dong Van – Ha Giang
In the morning
- 08h30 breakfast then attend Dong Van market, shop souvenir
In the afternoon
- After lunch, drive down Ha Giang, lunch on the way.
Inclusive services: A landcruiser car, tour guide, entrance fee
Day 10: Ha Giang – Ba Be lake
- 07h15, a jeep drive to Ba Be lake
- Lunch on the way then keep your driving via Cho Ra town then throughout the national park of Ba Be to Pac Ngoi village of the Tay minority
- Tonight we will share a dinner and a night with a Tay family, this homestay night will bring you 3 joins (eating, sleeping and talking), could be a good chance for you to get to know their own traditional customs and tipycal culture of Vietnam north-eastern ethnic minorities.
Inclusive services: A landcruiser car, tour guide, entrance fee
Day 11: Ba Be lake
In the morning
- Getting up earlier than be daily is supposed to be better because you will have an interesting observation at their dailylife happenning what you are looking forward to discovering in this trip.
- Breakfast then stroll throughout narrow paths of the villages, visit several local families, schools, talk with the locals
- Pack up your luggages for a highlight boat trip.
In the afternoon
- Take a motor boat around the central lake and national park.
- Alongside Nang river to visit Puong cave and Dau Dang waterfall where you and take a short rest, swim then enjoying a picnic lunch
- Arrive in the other side of the park, it is Cho Ra mountain town, a quite place for us to spend the second night in a family-run hotel
Inclusive services: A landcruiser car, tour guide, entrance fee
Day 12: Ba Be - Cao Bang for a nicest hugest waterfall.
- Another road driving to Cao Bang provincial center, with several stopovers for the lasting impression pictures taken in the North East, lunch then continue the journey to Ban Dzoc waterfall that known to adventurous travelers as the nicest hugest one in Viet Nam. Here you can enjoy a fresh swimming in the waterbase, with a permit included you can see the neighbouring China for a moment then back to Cao Bang for dinner and overnight.
Inclusive services: A landcruiser car, tour guide, entrance fee
Day 13: Cao Bang - Lang Son - Hanoi
- On the threaded roads lead you through remote village, huge mountain and rainforest to the middle province of Lang Son that sharing the border with Chine.
- Stop at Huu Nghi or Friendship international border gate and Tan Thanh border market.
Inclusive services: A landcruiser car, tour guide, entrance fee.