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Best of Northern Vietnam Adventure Tour - For real hikers

Hanoi - Mai Chau - Moc Chau - Son La - Dien Bien - Lai Chau - Lao Cai
West of Vietnam northern part brings itself an over spectacular scene. It is often mentioned through the imagines of rice-terraces, and authentic life of minority. The mountain villages of Vietnam is also loved very much because of the traditional houses on stilts which are ancient and original as well. Best of Vietnam Adventure Tour will travel with you whole ins and outs of this region. You will be visited the most impressing landscapes as O Quy Ho Pass, Pha Din Pass, Cat Cat Village, Lao Chai – Ta Van, etc. 

In the Itinerary, your private team will come over Mai Chau that is the place of Thai people. You will ride a bicycle throughout immense rice-fields covered by the mountains. Moc Chau where is beautiful all year round: the summer with huge tea-hills, autumn with buckwheat flower, winter is fulfilled by flowers of cabbage, and spring with plum and peach blossom. Leaving from the peaceful space, we continually admire the most breathtaking pass of West Northern Vietnam as O Quy Ho (King of Pass), or Pha Din. 

Saving the best for the last. You experience the amazing Ethnic villages of Sapa in the last day of the Northern Vietnam Adventure. Spending several hours to trek along the rural villages to meet the minority people and contemplate giant rice-terraces. Not only have the marvelous paddies located in mountains, Sapa also owns a comfortable atmosphere with forest’s flowers embellishing. Through our 8 days trekking and discovery tour, you still can see the roof of Indochina – Fansipan Mountain that appears and disappears in cloud.

Come to West of Vietnam Northern part to have the best way to admire magical rice-terraces and discover the colorful tribe-hills.

Itinerary

Date  
Destinations
Meals
Day 1
Hanoi - Hoa Binh - Mai Chau
L/D
Biking in Mai Chau & Experience homestay of Thai Ethnic Group.
Arrival at Noi Bai International Airport – Tour guide & bus take you to Hoa Binh Province. Stop over Luong Son (Hoa Binh) for the lunch. Enjoy your lunch in the fresh air with rice-paddies covering around.
After that, we go over Thung Khe Pass, from which you can take a panorama of Mai Chau. While biking around Mai Chau Valley, you will meet Thai people, and admire the authentic scenes of mountains and forests of Hoa Binh.
Have dinner at a local house, experience homestay. Overnight at local house in Mai Chau.
Day 2
Hoa Binh - Moc Chau - Son La
B, L, D
Moc Chau is beautiful all year round.
Moc Chau is beautiful all year round.
Come over Moc Chau - the countryside of plum, tea-hills and milk cow
You can get up early to catch the sunset in the Thai’s village. Breakfast is served at the homestay. Enjoy it, and talk to the hospitality host before leaving. 
Driver will drive us to Moc Chau that is amazing all year round with the endless tea-hills, white mustard flower, plum and cherry blooming. Thanks to a peaceful life, Moc Chau is one of the best relaxing places in the Northern Vietnam. 
The first attraction for visiting is Doi Cave (Bat Cave) with its exciting dragon legend. Later, we experience Dai Yem waterfalls, which is soft and bewitching as well. After the lunch, we continue running along the Da River, then exploring Son La Prison, watching to Hieu cherry tree. Overnight at the hotel in Son La.
Day 3
Son La - Dien Bien
B, L
Contemplate the unbelievable scene of Pha Din Pass
Breakfast at the hotel – Conquer Pha Din pass – Lunch in Dien Bien – Visit Muong Phang and Vo Nguyen Giap vault – Check in the hotel in Dien Bien and free yourselves. Overnight at the hotel in Dien Bien.
Pha Din is in the list of four greatest passes of Vietnam, together with O Quy Ho, Ma Pi Leng, and Khau Pha. Its name means that the earth and the sky, and the Pha Din is called as the connecting point between them. Although just 32km in length, Pha Din is really spectacular with Ethnic villages in the feet, 8 sharp turns in the body and fulfilling cloud in the peak. It certainly brings a lot of exciting and surprising feeling to all visitors.
Day 4
Dien Bien Phu - Lai Chau - Sapa
B, L
One of the greatest pass in Northern Vietnam, O Quy Ho is often vaporous in cloud
One of the greatest pass in Northern Vietnam, O Quy Ho is often vaporous in cloud
Conquer O Quy Ho - one of four highest pass in Vietnam and take your eyes to see the rood of Indochina
Breakfast at the hotel – Go along Nam Mã River to Phong Tho town – Go over O Quy Ho Pass on the way to Sapa – Watch the peak of Fanxipan from O Quy Ho – Touch to Sapa down town – Enjoy your leisure time in pleasure city. Overnight at the hotel in Sapa.
O Quy Ho is also supposed as King of Pass with the body interrupt Mt. Hoang Lien Son (the biggest mountain of Vietnam). O Quy Ho has other names is Cloud Pass and Hoang Lien Pass. Only coming here, you can know that the pass is wrapped by a sky of cloud every time in the high of 2.000m above sea-level. Placed as the pathway leading from Lao Cai to Lai Chau and vice versa, O Quy Ho blends between a foggy site and the sunshine other. 
Take your relaxing time in Sapa town – a small and animated place. Sapa is pretty, tranquil and colorful with the ideal climate of a Temperate Zone. You can meet lots of minorities, buy many brocade products, touch to the cloud equivocally, and enjoy massage with Red Dzao’s herbal remedy. Read more about Sapa here.
Day 5
trekking Lao Chai - Ta Van
B, L
Spectacular Sapa villages and Ethnology Groups
Breakfast at hotel. Be willing for a day of easy trekking to the breathtaking hill tribe villages of Sapa. 
Firstly, the bus will stop in the road-way that leads you to Y Linh Ho village, which only several hundred of Black H’mong people is living and planting. They build the rudimentary soil houses scattered in the sloping mountain side, and earn their lives by upland rice and corn. From here, you will learn more about the mysterious life in Muong Hoa valley. 
After approximated 3 trekking hours, you will stay in Lao Chai village, the home of Giay people. Stop here for the lunch. 
In the afternoon, we continue walking ahead to Ta Van. Lao Chai and Ta Van are two valley villages, located between Hoang Lien Son and Ham Rong mountains. Especially, the villages still keep on the traditional culture and habits though owning the modern conveniences. The rice-terraces look like the bridges linking from the villages to spectacular mountains. 
Back to Sapa by private bus. Overnight at the hotel in Sapa.
Day 6
Sapa trekking: Cat Cat - Ham Rong - Lao Cai - Hanoi
B, L
Admire a Sapa in the pouring season with sparkling rice-terraces
Admire a Sapa in the pouring season with sparkling rice-terraces
Sapa trekking day with endless rice-terraces in among of imposing mountains
After the breakfast, Far East Tour’s bus will take you to Cat Cat Village where is famous with H’mong and brocade weaving technique. Excepting admiring the rice-terraces, you will meet to H’mong people and listen to their sophisticated weaving process. Next visiting places are the Ham Rong Mountain and hillside on the route. Climbing to the peak hight 1.800m, you see many other mountains of Mt. Hoang Lien Son with variety of different forms.
Back to Sapa for a leisure time in the town. You can go for a short walk to visit Sapa stone church, sip a cup of coffee at local coffee shop, or experience any bar that is very interesting. 
After the dinner, you will be picked up to Lao Cai Railway Station for the train back to Hanoi. Overnight at Fanxipan Express Train.
Day 7
Hanoi City Tour
B

One Day for blending Hanoi Capital
5:00 a.m. Arrive at Hanoi Station – Check in the hotel for breakfast and relax – Discover Hanoi by yourself. Overnight at the hotel in Hanoi.
Read Hanoi Travel Guide to create your best private time.

Day 8
Hanoi Departure
B
Good bye to Hanoi - Next destinations is awaiting you. 
Breakfast at your hotel – Move to Noi Bai International Airport and departure to the next city. Best of Northern Vietnam Adventure Tour 8 days ends.

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