WEST-TO-EAST VIETNAM HIKING TRIP PLUS HALONG BAY

*BRIEF ITINERARY:Day 01: Arrival – Hanoi (-/-/D)
Day 02: Hanoi Sightseeing Tours – Lao Cai (B/-/-)
Day 03: Lao Cai – Muong Khuong – Cao Son (B/-/-)
Day 04: Cao Son – Muong Lum Trekking & Homestay Tours (B/L/D)
Day 05: Muong Lum – Trek – Ban Cam-Bac Ha (B/L/D)
Day 06: Bac Ha – Trekking – Na Lo Homestay Tours (B/L/D)
Day 07: Na Lo – Xin Man – Hoang Phi Xu – Pan Hou (B/-/-)
Day 08: Pan Hou – Trekking – Pan Hou (B/L/D)
Day 09: PanHou – Dong Van (B/-/-)
Day 10: Dong Van – weekly walking tour of Dong Van and Meo Vac (B/-/-)
Day 11: Meo Vac – Lung Phin – Yen Minh – Vi Xuyen (B/-/-)
Day 12: Vi Xuyen – Thac Ba – Vu Linh Homestay Tours (B/-/D)
Day 13: Vu Linh – Ha Noi (B/-/-)
Day 14: Hanoi – Halong Cruise Tours (B/L/D)
Day 15: Halong – Hanoi (B/-/-)

Day 1. West-to-East Vietnam Hiking Trip Plus Halong Bay: Arrival – Hanoi (-/-/D)

Ha Noi: Red Bridge on Hoan Kiem Lake

Arrive in Hanoi. Reception and transfer to hotel downtown. Visit the center of Hanoi. We make oriented lap of the old city.The old quarter is located just north of Hoan Kiem lake. Created by Chinese traders in the 15th century, is today the oldest district of Hanoi, whose topography is left unchanged. It is composed of streets and alleys, lined tunnels houses the famous, large 3 or 4 m long and 50 to 60 m! Formerly, each street comprised a specific craft and shopping If today, most have diversified, it remains, the individual names of old streets: Hang preceding the name of a product or a trade – Hang Duong – Sugar Street, Hang Thiec – Tin Street, Hang Ga – chicken hat, Hang Bong – Cotton Street, etc. … without forgetting the famous Hang Dao – Silk street.

You can immerse yourself in a swarm of people who are busy standing in every sense, smell the smells, hear the screams and sounds of ancient Vietnam. Located downtown, the lake is compared with a bouquet of flowers at the heart of Hanoi. It derives its name from a famous legend of the 14th century, still tell that old. Two small islands adorn the lake. The smallest, the Turtle is a Pagodon, formerly named “Pagoda of Love”, today it is inaccessible to the public, and one can only admire.

On the larger island or Ngoc Jade Island, located near the eastern shore, is built from the 19th century, the “Temple Ngoc” or “Temple of Jade”, dedicated to Van Xuong, Engineering Letters and General Tran Hung Dao, winner of the Mongols in the 13th century. It is reached by a small wooden bridge, the colors red and gold, after passing the “Tower of the Brush” and under “Portico of the inkstand.” Interesting visit for a first approach to the Confucian symbolism, the history of Vietnam … Welcome dinner in a local restaurant. Overnight in Hanoi

Day 2. West-to-east Vietnam Hiking Trip Plus Halong Bay: Hanoi Sightseeing Tours – Lao Cai (B/-/-)

After a lazy morning restorative, we make a sightseeing tour of Ha Noi. Full day exploring the capital of Vietnam. Visit the major sights: the Little Lake, a true pearl in the center of the city, the Temple of Literature, Vietnam’s first university with its original architecture, the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum and One Pillar Pagoda, the Museum of History and Museum of Ethnography.

Halong Bay

Imagine a city incorporated: two or three lakes green, gray cathedral, some purple and golden pagodas and quantities of streets: the street buttons, closures – lightning and balls of wool, the street exhaust pipes and hubcaps, street offerings for the dead, the street of sandals, the street children’s toys and books, the street locks and keys, the street bears and caps bra … street scooters and street motorcycles, mopeds of all streets, the street that begins and ends nowhere, the road running through the world and mixed passersby. Dinner and transfer to Hanoi Railway Station. Train to Lao Cai. Overnight in the train (sleeper car conditioning)

Day 3. West-to-east Vietnam Hiking Trip Plus Halong Bay: Lao Cai – Muong Khuong – Cao Son (B/-/-)

Arrival around 5:00 in the morning at Lao Cai. Muong Khuong transfer by bus to visit the Muong Khuong market (held once a week), meeting place of minorities in the region, including Mong colorful. Grand highlight ethnic groups with trade. The walk is occasion for us to immerse ourselves in daily life in the mountains and especially it is not a tourist … Tranfer Cao Son village situated at 1300 meters elevation. It is surrounded by many charming villages of the Hmong colorful and typical. Residents welcome the necks big smiles. Overnight in Cao Son Lodge

Day 4. West-to-east Vietnam Hiking Trip Plus Halong Bay: Cao Son – Muong Lum Trekking & Homestay Tours (B/L/D)

We descend by marked footpaths in a little valley through fields of cassava and maize. The trek is difficult with some steep climbs and descents on foot, but the views are incredible. So some physical preparation will enable you to fully appreciate today’s trek. Arriving in the village Muong Lum Night Dao Homestay.

Day 5. West-to-east Vietnam Hiking Trip Plus Halong Bay: Muong Lum – Trek – Ban Cam-Bac Ha (B/L/D)

Admire the spectacular scenery and simple lifestyle of ethnic minorities are a highlight of the trip although conditions are very simple. En route, arrived to Ban Cam, we have the chance to meet locals, very friendly and welcoming. We find our bus and transfer to Bac Ha, a high plateau at 1100 above sea Night at the hotel

Day 6. West-to-east Vietnam Hiking Trip Plus Halong Bay: Bac Ha – Trekking – Na Lo Homestay Tours (B/L/D)

Sapa: Bac Ha Market

After breakfast, start trekking for the day. We’ll take a limestone mountain with a height of 1200 to 1300 meters. After about 3 hours walking we reach the summit where we stopped to admire the beautiful landscapes that offer a view: rice terraces, vegetation, villages of ethnic tribes. Pinque Lunch – picnic. The afternoon we descend the mountain across the rice fields. After several hours of walking on a flat road, we reach the village of Ta Van Chu composed of about fifty families of the Mong ethnic group in bloom (or Mong camouflage). This village, located not far from anything the town of Bac Ha, remains very isolated by the valleys. Dinner and overnight at the inhabitant in a house on stilts.

The Mong bloom is a small group of local ethnic Mong (consisting of 600 000 individuals in total), immigrated from southern China in the late 18th century. The other factions are: Green Mong, Mong red, black Mong Mong Na Miao and white. Check in late afternoon – noon to Na Lo town located a few miles as the crow flies from the town of Bac Ha The Tay, also known under the name of Tho, live in the North and the highlands of Central Vietnam and have about 2 million people. Unlike or Mong Phu La, Tay are indigenous to their current living area. Overnight homestay in the village Nalo, in Tay.

Day 7. West-to-east Vietnam Hiking Trip Plus Halong Bay: Na Lo – Xin Man – Hoang Phi Xu – Pan Hou (B/-/-)

We’re going on road to go west to the discovery of another region, province of Ha Giang. We meet on the track passable joined our destination aujoud ‘hui many villages inhabited by colorful Hmong, Tay, Nung, Dao and Red. In desecndant to our Pan Hou village, the landscape changes enormously with millers in many terraces carved on the mountain by its inhabitants. Pusieurs stops to photograph them. Night Pan Hou, a resort property located on the banks of a river. Opportunity to Mayor massage in the spa resort of our (Pay Option)

Day 8. West-to-east Vietnam Hiking Trip Plus Halong Bay: Pan Hou – Trekking – Pan Hou (B/L/D)

We will cross this morning a small hill for us to a village populated Veins Dao, before reaching the summit of a high hill where we will have a panoramic view of the region. Lunch at the people who are very nice and careful, we booze even noon here!! In the afternoon, the path leads down to several hamlets Dao The Dao ethnic group in Vietnam has about 500 000 people divided into a dozen factions premises. They occupied land at any altitude in the regions of the Far North of Vietnam. Despite their very easy contact with the Viet, Dao are little influenced by the culture of the latter. Overnight to Our lodge.

Day 9. West-to-east Vietnam Hiking Trip Plus Halong Bay: PanHou – Dong Van (B/-/-)

After déeuner small, we take the road to Dong Van. It crosses two passes in large celestial heights nicknamed Doors to Quan Ba and Yen Minh with magnificent views overlooking the valleys below. Dong Van has arivée after many stops for visits vilages inhabited by different ethnic groups along the way: to Pho Bang, a village inhabited by the Han, the very style chinos and old residence of King Sa Phin Meo. Overnight in Dong Van

Day 10. West-to-east Vietnam Hiking Trip Plus Halong Bay: Dong Van – weekly walking tour of Dong Van and Meo Vac (B/-/-)

Ha Giang: Dong Van Karst Plateau

The day is special for the tribes of the region. They descend from villages nestled in the mountains to attend their Sunday markets. We believe in a parade of clothes in all colors from the tribal Hmong, Dao, Tay, Nung. The exchanges are in a half day and then take the following feasts in the corners of restaurants with the ambiance Aboriginal particular. Following this visit, we go to Meo Vac, border town which is famous also for its Sunday market, but completely different to that of Dong Van. There, animals are for sale in large numbers. After the march Meo Vac, a walk in the surrounding area to visit the villages inhabited by the Hmong. Overnight at hotel in Meo Vac

Day 11. West-to-east Vietnam Hiking Trip Plus Halong Bay: Meo Vac – Lung Phin – Yen Minh – Vi Xuyen (B/-/-)

Departure by road to the south. We make the road up and down constantly. The region is very ercarpée and wild, inhabited by the Hmong. They grow well up on barren rocky and steep. Recement, their topography and geography come to be recconues by “Unesco as a world geological park. Landscapes particularly strange to the rest of the country. Overnight in Vi Xuyen.

Day 12. West-to-east Vietnam Hiking Trip Plus Halong Bay: Vi Xuyen – Thac Ba – Vu Linh Homestay Tours (B/-/D)

Departure to Thac Ba Lake reservoir’s largest country. We cross an area inhabited by the sedentary, Tay and Dao who live in houses on stilts and grow well in fertile valleys. After noon, we arrive at our village Vulinh, located at the lake. Visit the village of Dao white pants. Night Homestay with the invitations of alcohol and a large breakfast of conviviality. Overnight homestay in a house on stilts.

Day 13. West-to-east Vietnam Hiking Trip Plus Halong Bay: Vu Linh – Ha Noi (B/-/-)

Boat trip on Lake herissédes hundreds of small islands in the shape of inverted bowls covered by lush vegetation. Back in the village for lunch before leaving Hanoi. Night in hotel

Day 14. West-to-east Vietnam Hiking Trip Plus Halong Bay: Hanoi – Halong Cruise Tours (B/L/D)

Halong Bay

Drive to Halong by crossing the Red River Delta. Few stops for photos are provided. Scenes of rural life of Vietnamese peasants accompany you along the route. Then a quick stop at the craft village at Dong Trieu pottery. Drive to Halong, “the place of the descent of the Dragon,” his surreal chaos of rocky peaks, the fruit of the Dragon antics against invaders. Getting on a junk. Lunch and dinner on board, composed of dishes from seafood This cruise in Halong Bay, you can discover the mysteries of the 8th world wonder.

This site, listed World Heritage Site by UNESCO, covers 1,500 square km with 3000 islands and islets, which emerge from the water by taking fantastic shapes. Silence reigns everywhere, sometimes broken by the cry of a raptor. Visiting one of the most beautiful caves of Halong Bay which was formed by rain, wind and waves over millions of years. Off on a beautiful beach in the middle of the bay. Kayaking in 1 hour to the discovery of a cave pierced by the waters of the sea Overnight on board.

Day 15. West-to-east Vietnam Hiking Trip Plus Halong Bay: Halong – Hanoi (B/-/-)

Following the cruise has Halong Bay, we visit a floating village inhabited by fishermen. The setting is magical. We visit a school that is always our favorite because we are making gifts to disadvantaged children, which is part of the spirit of Green Trail Tours.

On return, visit the But Thap pagoda (Ninh Phuc) in Bac Ninh (30 km from Hanoi). This pagoda has the standard plan the most complete and most representative pagodas in northern Vietnam. It was founded before the fourteenth century, but these buildings date from the seventeenth century. It is characterized by a railing and a stone bridge dating from 1647. They are decorated with twenty-six panels in low relief, whose subjects and scenes are very diverse. This pagoda retains a stone stupa shaped brush dated 1646, and a statue of the goddess Quan Am with a thousand arms and thousand eyes particularly noteworthy.

Back to Ha Noi. End of our services.

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