HANOI - BA BE LAKE - 3 DAYS (3 Days - 2 Nights)

7:30: Our guide will pick you up at your hotel and depart for Ba Be Lake (250km, 6h driving). On the way to stop in Thai Nguyen to visit the marvelous Museum of the Culture of the Ethnic Minorities of Vietnam, followed by lunch at a restaurant.

Then we leave the main road to take a smaller one snaking through the mountains and tea plantations, and arrive in the Tay village of Bo Lu, where you will be welcomed by friendly Tay family in their traditional house. You will completely unwind from the hassle of Hanoi. Evening, you can join with local host to prepare the dinner.
Overnight at homestay in Ba Be

Included: Car from Hanoi - Ba Be, tourist guide, entrance tickets, meals as mentioned, homestay
Excluded: Drinks and personal expense
 

Moring: After having breakfast, you will get on a boat to explore Ba Be (three lake), you will explore the spectacular scenery and the stunning limestone cliffs that frame the lake and up the Nang River, to an astonishing site: Dong Phuong, an enormous tunnel (300m long by 30m high) that the river has cut through a lime mountain. The boat will stop for you to hike around small villages and along the riverfront where you can observe the peaceful life of the Tay, H’mong people among the green rice fields. After that, you will continue go up river to the small village of Hua Tang. Lunch is served in a local house alongside the river.

After lunch, a short walk through the jungle takes you to the very scenic Dau Dang Waterfalls, a series of spectacular cascades between sheer rock walls. You may continue the trail to arrive in a large river bend full of colourful local life, with a small “harbour” . Here the locals unload goods to bypass the falls by motorbike and then reload them on boats to go through the lake.
Return by boat for another delightful evening at your Tay family.

Included: Boat trip on Ba Be Lake, tourist guide, entrance tickets, meals as mentioned, homestay
Excluded: Drinks and personal expense

After breakfast we will stroll along the riverfront, visit some lovely Pac Ngoi village where most Tay people keep traditional houses and hike the upper reaches of the lake, in an area marked by massive limestone cliffs and mountains. Say goodbye to the local host and our car takes you to amazing Hua Ma cave, a dry cave with thousands of stalactites and over the pass, so you can take amazing photos of the terraced fields. Stop for lunch in Cho Ra town. We continue our journey back to Hanoi.
End the trip around 5.00pm

Included: Transportation, tourist guide, entrance tickets, meals as mentioned
Excluded: Dinner, Drinks and Personal expense