Vietnam's Northwest Off The Beaten Track 7 Days 6 Nights

CODE:

AZO-NOR

PRICE:

$ 415 pp

This tour is a great option for to you escape the bustle and hustle city and set out on an adventure through the amazing mountainous areas of Vietnam's Northwest region. We will take you off the beaten track through the deep valleys, towering mountains to remote hill tribe villages, ascading waterfalls and quaint colonial towns.

Departure: Daily start

Tour type: Private Tour

Special tips:

All entrance fees included
All taxes & service charges included
Free Vietnam visa invitation letter
Only 30% of grand total is deposit requested
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Driving from Hanoi capital hustle and bustle to get fresh breathing in the countryside and remote mountain range
Take a biking trip around villages to see a real local's daily life
Experienced overnight in local stilt homestay, join with traditional dance & rice wine
Visit a beautiful and historic cave in Mai Chau
Go through Thung Khe Pass, Pha Din pass with spectacular views
Visit Dien Bien Phu - the famous historical battleground with many attractions
Explore many ethnic minorities groups during the trip and know more about their colorful life and customs
Walk through Muong Hoa valley in Sapa to see terraced rice fields, waterfall
Explore Sapa town with attractive sites like Sapa Stone Church, market...

Show program in details

8.00: Our (English speaking) tour guide & driver will come to pick you up from Hanoi City for Mai Chau Valley, where attracts you by the patchwork of rice fields rolls out, speckled by tiny Thai Villages where visitors doss down for the night in traditional stilt houses and wake up to a rural soundtrack defined by gurgling irrigation streams and birdsong. It takes us around 4 hours for transfering, stops in the middle way for short break. You will have a chance to admire the lush valleys, rice fields and ancient tea plantations on the way.

Arrive in Mai Chau Valley, we will have lunch in White Thai Family and communicate with locals, learn about the ethnic’s unique culture, foods in Northwest along Vietnam.

After lunch and a short break, we will take a bike ride 2 hours a round the villages, enjoy the peaceful scene of farmers on the field, locals weaving scarves, and surrounding villages.

Short free time for relaxing, walking, shopping around the village.

Enjoy Thai's dinner and their traditional performance. Overnight in the local family of Mai Chau

Includes: Homestay; transport; English speaking guide; meals: lunch & dinner; all entrance fees including biking, Thai tranditional performance

After breakfast, we start the journey by hiking up 1000 steps to Mo Luong Cave - the beautiful cave in Mai Chau. Then, going to the local market to see their daily life with common exchange.

After that, coming back to homestay for check out, say goodbye Mai Chau and head to Son La Province. Lunch will be served on the way to Son La. This journey is an other beautiful road of Vietnam Northern Part, with typical local houses, green fields everywhere beside of a famous Da River.

Arrival in Son La, check in & free at leisure. Free time for your own dinner. Overnight in Son La.

Includes: Hotel; transport; English speaking guide; meals: breakfast & lunch; all entrance fees

Breakfast at your hotel. Check out and go to visit Son La Prison and Son La Museum. Which were important ground basements of Vietnamese VC during the war of Vietnam.

Have a lunch in the local restaurant at noon time.

Continue driving to Dien Bien Phu, over the Pha Din Pass, short look of Muong Fang - a basement of General Vo Nguyen Giap all over 9 years of the war.

Upon the arrival in Dien Bien. Check in time & overnight in Dien Bien Phu.

Includes: Hotel; transport; English speaking guide; meals: breakfast & lunch; all entrance fees

Breakfast at hotel. Start touring to visit Dien Bien Phu Museum, Old Battlefields, Headquarter of French Former General De Castries under the ground, A1 Hill, Dien Dien Phu's Victory Monument.

Drive to Muong Lay - a remotest district of Dien Bien Province, where is home of some small tribe groups and neighbour border with Laos via Xa Ly Province.

We will have lunch on the way

Check in & overnight in Muong Lay.

Includes: Hotel; transport; English speaking guide; meals: breakfast & lunch; all entrance fees

After breakfast at your hotel, check out and spend our long driving day with another almost 200 km in distance for Sapa. But, this will be a worth day with the best driving part as the scenery is magnificent; wonderful view, the fertile valleys surrounded by huge mountains are a sight to behold. Arrival in Sapa in the late afternoon. Overnight in Sapa

Includes: Hotel; transport; English speaking guide; meals: breakfast & lunch; all entrance fees

7.00 – 8.00: Have breakfast at hotel, check out the room and prepare light pack for trekking (big luggage will be kept in hotel store).

8.00: A short drive to Y Linh Ho then trek through the rice terraces and along Muong Hoa Stream to the Black Hmong Village of Lao Chai to see the spectacular landscape of Hoang Lien Son Mountain. After that, heading to Ta Van Village – home of Dzay ethnic people.

Trekking distance is about 9 kms and it lasts for 3.5 hours

11.30: Bus picks you up at Ta Van bridge to Sapa. Have lunch in the restaurant

14.30: A short drive to the gate of Cat Cat Village which is home of Black H’mong ethnic people and is located near the bottom of a deep valley at the foot of Fansipan Peak. Our local guide will show you the daily life activities of the locals, trek down to the valley bottom to the waterfall where the French built a Hydraulic Power Station. Stop for photo with bridge and waterfall then you will walk uphill for bus to pick up to get back to Sapa in the afternoon.

Trekking distance is about 2.5 kms and it lasts for 2 hours

17.00: Come back to Sapa town.We will have a last farewell dinner before saying goodbye Sapa tomorrow. Overnight in Sapa

Includes: Hotel; transport; English speaking guide; meals: breakfast, lunch & dinner; all entrance fees

After breakfast, driving back to Hanoi. Have a last lunch on the way.

Arrive in Hanoi in the late afternoon. Ends of the tour.

Includes: Hotel; transport; English speaking guide; meals: breakfast & lunch

Price from (USD):
Category	NORTH WEST VIETNAM ADVENTURE 7 DAYS
Standard	No of pax	02 pax	04 pax	06 pax	08 pax	Single Sup
	Local hotels & Homstay	799	525	465	415	95
Note:	Price is in USD per passenger in Twin shared room Season promotion can be applied with further contact

Inclusion:

Accommodation as mentioned in twin shared at hotel or homestay
Professional English speaking guide
Transfers by A/C tourist coach with mineral water
All entrance fee as mentioned in the program
Biking as mentioned above
Vietnam visa invitation letter for tour bookers
Meals as mentioned in the program (B - Breakfast; L - Lunch; D - Dinner)
Government Tax (VAT) & service charges

Exclusion:

All International & domestic airfare; visa stamping fee
Other meals, beverages, tips, gratuities and other personal expenses
Travel insurance
All other services which is mentioned above

What to bring?

Print out your Vietnam's Northwest Adventure 7 Days Tour Booking Confirmation.
Bring your passport during the trip.
Take walking shoes, raincoat, jacket, extra clothes, torch, insect repellent and sunscreen...etc
Prepare cash for personal expenses

What to know?

Provinces in North West Vietnam mostly provide provincal standard hotels. If you wish to stay in 4- 5 star hotels, only Sapa can match your enquiries
Do not wear short clothes when visiting pagodas, temples, churches and mausoleum
Special food's request (diet or vegetarian, food allergy …) should be informed before your departure date.
Beside the essential items such as long sleeve clothes, hat, trekking shoes, sunscreen, mosquito repelent, you can carry some extra things as camera, flash light, water etc
In Hanoi: The Old Quarter area does not allow vehicles at the weekend (every Fri, Sat, Sun), so we will inform you in advance to pick up/drop you off at nearby streets
The period from April to October will good to pack a wide-brimmed hat, sunscreen (~SPF30) and from November to March, more warm clothing is advised.
After using services of rowing boat trip, local tuktuk (cyclo); bellman or waiter always expect some tippings for their hard work besides of their fixed salary.
Every hotel/homestay have free luggage storage rooms for their clients. You can consider to re-pack again your neccessery handbag or backpack for each tour while the other can be left at hotel
Tour cost & availability can be changed in X'Mas, Easter Season, Western New Year and Vietnamese New Year. Please contact for more information