Day 1: Ha Noi – Bac Quang – Thong Nguyen (L/D)
Morning: You will be picked up at your hotel and experience a change of scenery as you enter the mountainous northern regions. On arrival at town of Tuyen Quang, you will enjoy a local style lunch and then continue to Hoang Su Phi, a remote and stunning area where you stay in a lodge accommodation for the night.
Evening: Have dinner and overnight at NamHong Homestay
Day 2: Nam Hong – Nam Khoa – Giang Ha (B/L/D)
Morning - Afternoon: You have the opportunity before your hiking day to enjoy your breakfast from served by the homestay owner. You leave Nam Hong Homestay with your local guide at 9am to explore the nearby mountains through tropical forests and rice terraces. After a three hours walk, you are taking a break in a village of the Red Dao for lunch. By necessity, they have sculpted the mountain side and use its water courses to grow rice. These laborious adjustments who enable them to live in the heights, offer you some unique landscapes to contemplate. The cooler climate and fresh water in abundance also contribute to the growth of lush tea trees.You will reach another Red Dao village after a two hours walk that will allow you to discover the local vegetation, to meet with the local people and observe them in their daily activities. You will start after lunch to climb the relief towards Giang Ha, a Red Dao village. A family will wait for you for dinner and for hosting you.
Evening: Overnight in Red Dao Homestay.
Walking duration: 5 hours
Day 3: Giang Ha – Giang Thuong - Nam Ai (B/L/D)
Morning - Afternoon: After the breakfast, you walk along the Nam Suoi Valley passing by some farms on pillar built on the mountainside and always close to water, accross a landscape of terraced rice ¬elds. The Mountain where the Ti Ki Liu Song Chay rises is mostly populated with H’mong Hoa Man Ta Pan, Tays, Dao Tunic Long and Nung Inh. You will be hosted this evening by a Long tunic Dao family from Nam Ai.
Evening: Overnight at Dao with long tunic Homestay.
Walking duration: 5 hours
Day 4: Nam Ai – Ho San (B/L/D)
Morning - Afternoon: You are leaving your hosts after breakfast to continue your trek. You are following a stream before entering the hilly paths and passing a suspension bridge to reach the Nam Son Valley. You are have lunch with Red Dao family before resuming your walk to one of Ho San hamlets in the heart of Nung territory. Like most northern mountain populations, they arrived from China fl¬eeing famine or persecution in the 18th century. Originating in Khuang Xi and Yunnan, they are part of the Thaie nation and speak the language.
Evening: Overnight in local homestay.
Walking duration: 5-6 hours
Day 5: Ho San – Banh Van (B/L/D)
Morning - Afternoon: From Passes to valleys, you are entering into the kept secret territory landlocked between mountain where ethnic groups live by harvesting the Shan tea, the cardamom and many medicinal plants for the Chinese market. The people have divided the territory into a mosaic, based on the altitudes, Hmong very top, Dao on mountain slopes between 500 and 1000m, the Tays in the valleys to the more fertile land.Strangers to each other, with different customs and languages, they are nonetheless neighbors. Today, we meet Nung and Dao with long tunic. A family of that tribe is welcoming us tonight.
Evening: Overnight at Dao with long tunic Homestay.
Walking duration: 5 hours
Day 6: Banh Van – Coc Coc (B/L/D)
Morning - Afternoon: You still in the middle of the Nung area. All the lands are exploited for commercial crops. You could easily recognize the Nung women, they are the most coquettish, decked amount of jewelry, necklaces, earrings and pins bun. Their clothing consists of a sampot gathered on the lower back, surmounted by a narrow black lustrous color vest. Tay and Nung are specialists in the cultivation of indigo dye used for these clothes.
Evening: Overnight at Tay Homestay
Walking duration: 5 hours
Day 7: Coc Coc – Ban Cay (B/L/D)
Morning - Afternoon: This morning, appear only the peaks floating on a scum sea of clouds. Later the sun will arise and clean up the landscape so the slopes contour of the terraces ¬fields and the network of bunds under us will appear. You are descending to the Song Chay valley. The river took its source on the slopes of the Kieu Lieu Ty mountain where we passed by two days ago. The river will serve as a border with the Chinese Yunnan in a few kilometers .
Evening: We are in the blacks Nung Homesaty for the evening and the night.
Walking duration: 5 hours
Day 8: Ban Cay – Hoang Su Phi Minority – Ha Noi (B/L)
Morning - Afternoon: After having breakfast in Nung Homestay, you will walk to the market Hoang Su Phi visit around in 30 minutes. It is the gathering of all the people who hosted you or you met on our way, and even more.The Chis, Ha Nhis, Co Laos also frequent this market where you will discover the local products sold as the herbal remedies or the indigo. En-route back to the capital enjoy a Vietnamese lunch in a local restaurant. We will bring you back in Hanoi in the late afternoon.
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