Evening of Day 1: Overnight train to Dong Hoi, Quang Binh.
You will be met up with Lotussia Travel team at your hotel in Hanoi and transferred to Hanoi train station. Train??? Departure at??? (to be advised). Overnight on the train.
Day 2: Dong Hoi- Phong Nha - Ke Bang National Park.
Arrive Dong Hoi train station in the morning. You will be greeted by Lotussia Travel local team and transferred to a local restaurant for breakfast.
After breakfast, enjoy 45-minute drive to Chay Lap village, which is outside the Phong Nha-Ke Bang National park. After arriving at the village, you will be welcomed by the local family at the home-stay. Your stay for two nights is in a traditional, yet comfortable house built intricately using the local available resources. You will be pleased to have the local home-stay experience in a comfort. You will be participating in different activities during the day like, dragon boat tour into the Phong Nha Cave. And after return to the village to explore local life style, you will have an opportunity to participate in social activities such as fishing in the pond, planting and gardening, or even playing volleyball with the locals in the afternoon. After the day of excitement and fun, you will be served with a well cooked fresh food grown locally for dinner.
Day 3: Phong Nha - Ke Bang National Park- Dong Hoi
After enjoying breakfast at the home-stay, you will venture out to the outdoors in nature. You will bike around to this outlying area and visit memorial site of Tam Co Cave along the road following the historic Ho Chi Minh Trail. Following this, further biking will take you to the “Nuoc Mooc Cold spring”. Leaving the bikes, your guide will take you for a short hike and eventually arriving at the fresh spring for a swim.
A picnic lunch will be organized to enjoy out with the out-door activities.
After lunch, you take a kayak and paddle along the clear blue “Chay River” that cuts a ravine through the jungle. Paddle into the mouth of Dark Cave to peer into its shadowy inner caverns. Return to the home- stay in the late afternoon to bid farewell to the family. You will be transferred to Dong Hoi town for a night stay at comfortable Sun spa.
Day 4: Free at leisure.
Full day free at leisure.
Day 5: Fly back to Hanoi.
Free at leisure until transfer to Dong Hoi airport for onward flight back to Hanoi. Flight??? Departure at ??? (to be advised).
Welcome at Noibai airport by Lotussia Travel team and transferred to your hotel in town. Trip ends.