Day 1: HANOI – PU LUONG (lunch, dinner)
AM: Pick you up at Hanoi Opera House at 7:00 AM and a few hotels in the Old Quarter area. Depart to Pu Luong Nature Reserve by 7:30. Estimate a 4 hour drive without heavy traffic.
Stop halfway at a part of Cuc Phuong National Park for rest around 20 minutes.
Upon arrival at Pu Luong, drop off and have lunch. After that,time to check in your reserved room. Free to relax and wander around.
PM: A whole afternoon to explore daily life at Pu Luong. Time to visit Bac Ha Village – one of the most scenic villages at Pu Luong. You will have opportunities to see rice terraces, daily life of ethnic people and interact with them closer. All little things make a grand and tranquil scenery. When the sun sets, get back your hotel. Relax and have dinner.
DAY 2. PU LUONG - Don - Uon - Lan villages - Hieu Waterfall (breakfast, lunch)
AM: Wake up in refreshing mountain air. Breakfast is served frome 6:00. Recharge fully and get ready by 8:00.
Walk down to Don Village known as the epicentre of Pu Luong. The area offers an easy road through vast terraced fields. Have chance to admire stunning ambience changing just after some footsteps. After a walk of 4KM, contemplate Uoi hamlet from high looking humble at the foot of the grand mountain. We promise, the landscape will feast your eyes and overload your phone card memory.
Continue down the hill to Lan village, where you start a 12KM ride. Explore the hamlet known as “Kingdom of Thai People in Puluong” with 100 Thai People families by bicycle.
Depart to Hieu village. Leisurely bike through paddy fields and you can catch lively and close sights from cool streams, farmlands, ducks paddling in ponds to friendly locals there.
PM: Arrive at Hieu Village, the most breathtaking village in that area and have lunch nearby. Take a short walk to to a unique waterfall in that Pu Luong Nature Reserve and ride back the Lan village before transfering to your hotel for relaxation. Finish second day by 16:30.
DAY 3. PU LUONG – HANOI (breakfast, lunch)
AM: Have breakfast and transfer to Bang village where you will start a 5KM hike. Pu Luong is the nearest place from Hanoi that offer similar landscapes of Sapa and Mu Cang Chai. You have chance to walk among the most scenic area of rice terraced fields in Pu Luong. Along the way, you will see local houses and people working on fields. It’s much more interesting beautiful in planting and harvesting seasons.
Finish your hiking at a local restaurant for lunch by 11:00 and then get back hotel to check out.
PM: Say goodbye Pu Luong and get back to Hanoi. Drop you off at your hotel in Hanoi by 6:30.
