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Mai Chau - Hoa Binh 2days/ 1night -

Brief itinerary & tour map

Day 01: Arrive in Mai Chau, visit to Thai’s village, sleep on traditional stilt house.
Day 02: Visit Lac village, back to Hanoi.

Detail tour program

Day 01 : Hanoi - Mai Chau ( L/D )
Departure at 7h00. The drive to Mai Chau takes 4 hours, enjoy the scenery along the way see the interesting churches, pagodas and villages .At noon arrive Thai’s village. Have lunch on the stilt-house . Short walk around the Thai villages (5kms) to take picturesque Mai Chau valley and enjoy the relaxing surroundings of Ban Lac village.

After an afternoon hike across a gorgeous valley passing through paddy fields and minority villages, you’ll retire to Mai Chau for an evening of traditional dance ( Bamboo pole dance ) and wine

Dinner and sleep on traditional stilt house.

Day 02 : Mai Chau – Hanoi ( B/L)
Breakfast. Visit Lac village, have lunch. Back to Hanoi. Stopover in Hoa Binh for seeing biggest hydroelectricity plant. 18:00 arrive Hanoi. Finish tour

Option tour: On the way back Hanoi city, we visit Vanphuc, the most famous and oldest silk village of Vietnam for its unique and discerning beauty that is praised in many poems, songs, stories… In here you will see all the steps to create a completed products ,though primitive tools are getting replaced by machine, but most the works are made by hands, so that Vanphuc is considered the most famous traditional handicraft village in Vietnam. You can buy some silk products as good souvenirs for your self, family or friends…

Tour price

Rates are inclusive of:

• Sleep on traditional stilt house
• Meals as specified in the itinerary
• Transportation
• English- speaking guide (other languages are available upon request).
• Sightseeing as specified including entrance fees.

Description of service in details

Rates are not inclusive of:

• Visa fee - visa to Vietnam

• Optional tours
• Tips for tour guide, driver
• Travel insurance
• International airfare to/ from Vietnam & International airport tax in Vietnam
• Expenditure of a personal nature, tips, such as drinks, souvenirs, laundry, emergency transfers & etc
• Others which are not mentioned in the inclusion

Remark:

•  If you don’t have enough time to complete visa before your departure to Vietnam, we will help you to obtain visa on arrival easily
• Brief introduce about destinations: Hoa Binh
• As indicated: A/C= Air-conditioning, O/N= Overnight, B=Breakfast, L=Lunch, D=Dinner
• Itinerary is subject to change depending on flights, road condition and room availability
• Rates are subjected to changed without prior notice.

Tour Map

Mai Chau is located in Hoa Binh province, approximately 135 km from Hanoi and 60 km from Hoa Binh. From the top of Cun Mountain, one can admire the superb panorama of Mai Chau surrounded by a green valley and stilt houses. Many minorities, including the Thai ethnic group, live in Mai Chau. Mai Chau can be a base for some trekking tours to the villages around, this is with homestay overnight on the traditional houses of the H'Mong and the Thai. Worth a guided treking tour there.

Tourists especially enjoy the minority specialty dishes including rice cooked in bamboo and grilled meat. They also enjoy watching traditional dancing, music performances (bronze, drums, gongs), and Thai minority singing and dancing. The remote minority villages are attractive sites for tourists.

About Hoa Binh:

Rượu Cần (Can alcohol) in the regions of North Vietnam, Northwest Vietnam, and the Central Highlands of West Vietnam, the ethnic minorities have a custom of drinking can alcohol at New Year’s festival, new rice festival, village festivities, etc. Can alcohol is prepared from glutinous rice and is a red-brown color. It is easy to drink because of its scent, its sweet taste, and its alcohol content, which is only about 20º. As such, many people, young and old, girls and boys, sit around the can jar. They do not use cups, glasses, or bowls to drink the alcohol; rather they use bent stems made of small phyllostachys to drink directly from the jar.
A bent stem is called a can, which is why this alcohol bears the name can alcohol. In order to drink, the right hand takes the stem, while the left hand is placed on the knee and the eyes are fixed on the alcohol jar. The oldest person, or the most honored guest, is invited to drink first. When the organizer of the drinking party brings the stem to the quest, all the people around the jar unanimously shout aloud (like shouting to one another when wandering in the forest), meaning unanimous consent by the guests to the invitation.

Lac Village is In Hoa Binh Province, approximately 135km from Hanoi and 60km from Hoa Binh Town. From the top of Cun Pass, one can admire the superb panorama of Mai Chau surrounded by a green valley and stilt houses. Many minorities, including the Thai ethnic group, live in Lac Village. Coming to Lac Village, you will see stilt houses border both sides of the roads. The houses are quite large with palm leaf roofs and polished bamboo-slat floors. The kitchen is located in the center of the house; the cooking as well as the making of the colorful Tho Cam, the material used by Thai minority to make their clothes, takes place in the kitchen. The windows are large and decorated with patterns. Each house also has a pond to breed fish.

Travel Pictures: Here are the thumbnails to the selected pictures of Traditional villages, please click on the thumbnails to enlarge.