ITINERARY IN DETAIL
DAY 1: HANOI – HALONG BAY (-/L/D)
Welcome to Threeland!
In the morning the tour guide of Threeland Travel will meet
you at your hotel in Hanoi and transfer you to Halong, a
World Heritage as designated by UNESCO in 1994, with
thousands limestone islets with stopovers en route to visit
the rural life of the Red River Delta’s farmers (esp. in
transplanting and harvest times), or the ceramic town at
Dong Trieu. The transfer will take about 3hours30. Check-in
your boat in Halong and have a lunch of fresh seafoods
served on board. Afternoon is your relaxation and you can
just relax on the sundeck and enjoy the bay’s splendid
seascape of thousands odd-shaped rocky islands, visit the
inside-island grottoes or go swimming. Dinner (seafoods) and
overnight on board.
DAY 2: HALONG BOAT TRIP – TRAIN TO LAO CAI (B/L/D)
After breakfast, we will continue to tour the Bay until
reaching the Wharf of Halong again (around 11.00) and back
to Hanoi. Stopover at Hong Ngoc Charity centre in Sao Do
Town for a quick lunch. After arrive in Hanoi around 16.00,
the guide will show you around the Sword Lake, Ngoc Son
Temple and enjoy an afternoon show at 17.00 of Water
Puppetry. Dinner in Hanoi before taking the night train
(escorted by Threeland guide) to Laocai stantion. Overnight
on the train.
DAY 3: LAO CAI - BAC HA – COC LY - CAO SON (B/L/D)
We arrive in Lao Cai in the early morning. After a short
break for refreshment and coffee, we take 2 hour driving
along the winding mountainous road to Bac Ha, the white
highland in Northwest Vietnam. Meet and make friend with the
local support team then start taking 2 hours trek to Coc Ly,
a nice village on the bank of Chay river. If today is
Tuesday, you will have great time to enjoy the weekly market
of hill tribe there. After lunch we will continue hiking to
Cao Son, where we will be overnight in a nice ecolodge.
DAY 4: CAO SON – LUNG KHAU NHIN – THAO CHU PHIN (B/L/D)
12km from Cao Son is Lung Khau Nhin, a nice village of
H’mong people. Furthermore, every Thursday, a local bazaar
held here with a lot of interesting activities of locals
such as drinking, dance, chatting and talking. Jumping into
the market and joining the people will be an unforgettable
feeling. After the lunch, we continue with a descending trek
along small and undiscovered tracks thru the terrace rice
fields, houses on stilt and winding bamboo fences. Reach the
river bank and enjoy the sunset view over the mountain. Get
over to the other bank of river by bamboo raft ran by river
waterpower – extraordinary feeling of using local
transportation method. We will be homestay or overnight at
local school.
DAY 5 +6: THAO CHU PHIN - XIN CHENG – QUAN THAN SAN– TA
VAN CHU – BAN PHO – BAC HA (B/L/D)
We will enjoy the first day in Si Ma Cai, the most remote
district of Lao Cai, located in the border with China and
together with famous Bac Ha, make an area named White
Highland. There are few footprints of tourists there and
things still remain as it was in 30 years ago. Trek thru
territories of various H’mong hill tribes such as Black
H’mong, Flower H’mong, White H’mong, Green H’mong will make
you unforgettable memory of hidden Vietnam. Have a 2-day
discovery at an untouched area of extreme Northern mountain
Vietnam with the first overnight at Quan Than San, then the
second night at hotel in Bac Ha for refreshment. On the way
back to Bac ha town, you will stop at Ban Pho village to see
the process of producing local whisky.
DAY 7: BAC HA – BAN LIEN (B/L/D)
One night refreshment at hotel in Bac Ha and after unhurried
breakfast in the town, you will have an easy start with 2
hours trek along a flat and paved road before catch up a
single dirty track to Ban Lien. You will have chance to see
plum and peach forests and if the trek held in Spring with
the white blossom cover the mountains, the beautiful
sceneries will leave the unforgettable mark in you mind.
Overnight in Ban Lien, a nice village of Tay people.
DAY 8: BAN LIEN – NAM DET (B/L/D)
A trail run in parallel along Phong river will be our
trekking route today. We will have a mixture of up-and-down
rugged terrain, wet and dirty soil, crossing stream by
unstable temporary stone spillway. The Dzao women live here
are famous for their sophisticated dress, skirts with many
layers, large red turban over their hair buns, coin necklace
representing a woman’s health etc. At the end of a long day,
we will overnight homestay in Nam Det.
DAY 9: NAM DET - BAC HA - HANOI (B/L/D)
After 3-hour short descending, we will return to Bac Ha
town. On the way we will meet Phu La hill tribe, who impress
you by their traditional costume featured by the mixture of
local weaving and beads made by glass. Have lunch in Bac Ha
and relax with cold beer before transfer to Lao Cai Railway
Station for night train to Hanoi.
DAY 10: HANOI
Arrive in Hanoi at 5am.
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