Route: Hanoi - Hoa Binh - Hang Kia - Cun Pheo - Mai Chau - Hanoi
Duration: 5 days 4 nights
Transport: car
Price: contact
Inspired by a team of friends traveling with a tourist group, I have recently made the 5d/ 4n trekking tour to some of the most beautiful and remote areas in Hoa Binh province. Please find below some updates concerning this tour.
Itinerary
Day 1: Hanoi - Museum of Ethnology - Hoa Binh (L, D)
Car and tourist guide of Vietnam Typical Tours pick you up at your hotel. Visit Museum of ethonology in Hanoi.
9.30: Drive from Hanoi to Hoa Binh. Arrive in Hoa Binh and check in at Hoa Binh hotel
Lunch at hotel.
PM: Meet the local guide. Transfer to the pier for a cruise on Hoa Binh lake which takes 30 minutes before disembarking on a village of Muong minority called Voi. Start trekking through the village then onto the hill along the river, ending the walk at the hotel.
Dinner at hotel followed by a minority folk music performance.
Day 2: Hoa Binh - Xa Linh - Hang Kia (B, L, D)
Breakfast at hotel.
Then, transfer from Hoa Binh to the direction of Mai Chau with a stopover to visit a Saturday market called Phu Cuong. Passing Mai Chau to continue another 30 minutes on national road no. 6.
Dropoff and start the trek to Xa Linh in 90 minutes.
Lunch in Xa linh in a home of Hmong people.
Continue to Cha Day village where there are choices of easy and more difficult routes to Hang Kia. On rainy days, the more difficult one should be hazardous. We finally took the easy one, passing through streams and corn fields. We arrived at Hang kia village at 17h30. This is a village at the height of more than 1000 meters above sea level, so it is quite cool even in summer time. There is only one family in the village who can host tourists, with maximum capacity of about 30 pax. The owner, 65 and having 13 children, was former district's communist party secretary.
Dinner: vegetable soup, fried beef, roasted pork, bread, fried chopped shrimp, fried vegetable
Overnight at house of H'mong people.
Day 3: Hang Kia - Cun Pheo (B, L, D)
Breakfast.
AM: 4 hours of trekking through the most difficult part of the trek. Our guide fell and had a serious cut in the hand.
Picnic lunch at a village of Thai people: bread, boiled egg, cumcumber, roasted chicken & beef.
PM: 2 hours trek before getting to Cun Pheo. Stay at a village of Muong minority. This is a spectacular village surrounded by palm gardens and bamboo
Dinner and overnight at house on stilt
Day 4: Cun Pheo - Xam Khoe (B,L,D)
Breakfast.
3 hours trek in the morning brings us to Sam Khoe where we stay at a Thai village.
Lunch.
PM: 2 hours bonus trek to see the nearby garden and terraced rice fields
Dinner with a jar of Can wine. The food is placed in large trays lined with banana leaves and decorated like traditional food of Thai minority.
Overnight at house on stilt.
Day 5: Xam Khoe - Mai Chau - Hanoi (B,L)
Breakfast
1.5 hours trek to reach an inter-district road where we meet our bus (should be 16-35 seater) to pick us up and drive to Hoa Binh town via Mai Chau.
Lunch at Hoa Binh hotel.
Continue drive and drop-off in Hanoi in the afternoon.
Tour included:
- Car, accommodation, tourist guide, Foods,entrance fees
Tour excluded:
- Tip, private expends, ...
Tour excluded:
- Tip, private expends, ...
