Day 1 (Thu): Hanoi - Ha Giang.
7:00am you will be met up with Lotussia Travel team at your hotel in Hanoi. Transfer to Ha Giang though Son Nam District of Tuyen Quang province. Enjoy natural landscape and green fields, palm hill and villages. Passing Tuyen quang town, you can visit village of black Tay minority. Arrive Ha Giang town in the late afternoon. Check into a local house for overnight (homestay).
Day 2 (Fri): Ha Giang - Dong Van – Meo Vac (B).
After breakfast, depart for the highland of Ha Giang province. A stop may be made in Quan Ba district, 1000 meters above sea level, for you to experience the rural life of different ethnic minorities. Continue driving uphill and have one more break in Yen Minh district to for further visit of hill tribe villages.
Continue our drive to Dong Van where we may have time to visit the ancient palace of the H’mong King in Sa Phin village. Arrive Meo Vac around late afternoon. Check into a local hotel for overnight.
Day 3 (Sat): Visit Meo Vac Sunday market (B).
Breakfast at hotel. The whole morning will be spent on visiting the Meo Vac market. Meo Vac market in Ha Giang Province is held every Sunday. It is the only one of its kind in the entire northern mountainous region of Vietnam. The market is not only for buying cows by the locals living in the karst plateau, it is also a time for the Mong ethnic people to get together.
After lunch, spend the rest hours of the afternoon walking along the stunning Nho Que River, admiring scenery of the spectacular Ma Pi Leng Pass, paying visit to villages of the H’mong, Zao and Red Lolo ethnic peoples.
Overnight in Meo Vac.
Day 4 (Sun): Meo Vac - Cao Bang (B).
Continue your trip to Cao Bang with many stop over on the way: visit ethnic villages and meet Tay and Dzao people, taking photos, rural market. Arrive at Cao Bang around late afternoon. Check into a local hotel for overnight.
Day 5 (Mon): Cao Bang - Ban Gioc waterfalls - Cao Bang (B).
Enjoy a scenic day trip north of Cao Bang to the beautiful Ban Gioc Waterfall on the Chinese border for a picnic lunch. This picturesque, cascading waterfall is 53 meters high and has an impressive span of 300 meters. The unique landscape includes limestone karst formations soaring from the verdant rice paddies of Tay, H’Mong and Dzao ethnic minority groups. On the way back to Cao Bang, explore the expansive 2,144 meter Nguom Ngao Cavern to discover its brilliant stalactites. Spend the second night in the hotel in Cao Bang.
Day 6 (Tue): Cao Bang – Pac Bo cave - Ba Be lakes (B).
Journey north to the Chinese border and visit the former hideout of the late president Ho Chi Minh. See how he lived and worked for four years to mastermind the 1954 independence from French forces. Return to Cao Bang Town for lunch, following take a 4-hour drive to Ba Be Lakes National Park, arrive in the late afternoon, overnight in a local stilt house of the Tay people.
Day 7 (Wed): Ba be lakes cruise (B).
After breakfast, enjoy a short walk to the boat pier where we will begin the boat trip on Ba Be lake. After the boat goes the through the Ba Be lakes, we continue cruising downstream the Nang river. A stop will be made for you to visit the Dau Dang waterfall (a short walk will be made before we arrive the waterfall).
After visiting the waterfall, we walk back to our boat and cruise upstream the Nang River. Another stop will be made in a riverside village where we will have lunch (picnic lunch).
After lunch, we continue cruising upstream the Nang river. Another stop will be made for you to visit the Puong grotto. The grotto is dozens of meters high and hundreds of meter long where the Nang River flows through.
Spend the second night in a local house on stilts.
Day 8 (Thu): Ba Be lakes – Hanoi (B).
After breakfast, drive back to Hanoi. On the way, further stops may be made for you to visit other ethnic minority villages on the way. Lunch en route. Arrive in Hanoi by the end of the afternoon. Check into your hotel again for overnight. End of Lotussia Travel service.
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