Day 1: HANOI – PU LUONG (L - D)

AM: Pick up at Hanoi Opera House at 7:00 AM and a few hotels in the Old Quarter area. Depart to Pu Luong Nature Reserve by 7:30. Estimate a 4 hour drive without heavy traffic.

Stop halfway for rest around 20 minutes. Drive for meander through roads that offer village landscapes seeing daily local activities somewhere along the way.

Before noon, arrive at Pu Luong Nature Reserve and have lunch. After that, check in your reserved room (standard check-in time 14:00). Free to relax and wander around.

PM: A whole afternoon to explore village life at Pu Luong and seek for giant water wheels - the greatest creation of mountainous ethnic minorities in Vietnam. Transfer to Ban Cong and start an easy walk. Go across a wooden bridge to one of the most scenic villages at Pu Luong where the largest stream flows through. Keep walking alongside the river, you will have opportunities to see stuning landscape and rice fields. Together admire giant water wheels and tour guide will show you more about village life.

Arrive at Chieu Lau dam and and join a river rafting. Time to relax and enjoy the views around. Have fun to paddle the raft upstream with locals. Then, on the other side of the dam, take a 1.6KM walk through rice fields, villages to the main road and transfer back.

When the sun sets, get back your hotel. Free time at your own.

Day 2: PU LUONG – HANOI (B)

AM: Wake up in refreshing mountain air. Breakfast is served from 6:00. Recharge fully and get ready by 8:00.

Walk down the valley to Don village known as the epicenter of Pu Luong. The area offers an easy road through vast terraced fields. You will have chance to admire stunning ambience changing just after some footsteps. After some walks, you will pass by Uoi hamlet. Looking from high, the hamlet stays humble at the foot of the grand mountain. We promise, the landscape will feast your eyes and overload your phone card memory.

Continue walking down the hill to Lan Village liken as “Kingdom of Thai People in Pu Luong” with 100 Thai People families. Leisurely either ride bicycle (optional) or stroll around paddy fields and you can catch lively and close sights from cool streams, farmlands, ducks paddling in ponds to friendly locals there.

After that, transfer back for lunch (optional) by 11:30. Check out your room.

PM: Say goodbye Pu Luong and get back to Hanoi. Drop off at your hotel in Hanoi by 6:30

TOUR PRICE INCLUDES

• Insurance
• Breakfast, lunch, dinner
• Deluxe stilt house, swimming pool, WiFi
• Limousine bus two ways Hanoi - Pu Luong
• English speaking tour guide from Hanoi
• Local guide, sightseeing tickets
• Transfer in Pu Luong as Itinerary
• Bottled water on tour

TOUR PRICE EXCLUDES

• VAT
• Lunch (return date), bicycle
• Drinks and fee for upgrade to private room