Mai Chau Vietnam Tour

Mai Chau Vietnam Tour

Mai Chau trek offers a most splendid vista of the Valley which is surrounded by lush greens and stilt houses inhabited mainly by the White Thai ethnic group. The Sunday market brings a lot of people into town where traditional Thai dishes are made and revel in traditional dances.

Mai Chau has a population of about 47,500 inhabitants that belong to different ethnic minority groups such as the White Thai, H’mong, Zao, Muong, Tay, Hoa and Viet. The Mai Chau hill tribes are warm and welcoming, and famous for their handicrafts – in particular for their skills in embroidering clothes.

Mai Chau offers a wide selection of soft adventure tours such as trekking, biking and motorcycle tours. Mai Chau Vietnam tour can be categorized by travel activity as follows:

Mai Chau hiking tours: Thanks to the beautiful landscape and the rich culture and tradition, Mai Chau offers lots of trekking hiking tours ranging from half day easy hiking to multi-day challenging trekking tour. Most of the hiking tours start from Mai Chau village. The trek will take travelers through Thai hamlets and green rice fields.

A variety of biking tours are also provided by Lotussia Travel. For easy biking tour, you can spend a half day cycle around the Lac village and cycle to Van village. This area is flat and you will only need to use your classic road bikes. With more challenging bike ride, Lotussia Travel recommend you taking your mountain bikes. Training is sometimes required to do prior to the trip departure.

Mai Chau Vietnam tour is also available for motorcycle tours. Please contact Lotussia motorcycle expert for further details.

Ha Noi to Mai Chau trekking

Day 1: Hanoi – Mai Chau – Hang Kia Village (B,L,D)

8:00 AM Mai Chau Trek tour guide and driver pick up at your hotel and leave Hanoi for Mai Chau, the beautiful gate way to the mountainous area of northern Vietnam – home of the H’mong and the White Thai minority group. On the way, have a short stop for refreshment.

Upon arrival in Mai Chau picked up by local guide and continue driving to Xa Linh Village.

Local lunch in a H’mong house before setting off on a beautiful trekking in the afternoon. After lunch, begin our trek on the village’s road and then walk on dirt path used by the locals. Afternoon, reach Tra Day Village, home to a small community of Black H’mong minority people. From the Tra Day village, have two options for trekking route to reach Hang Kia, where we will stay overnight. The easier route with rocky path running through another H’mong village. The harder route take more time to do with trail uphill through jungle and dirt path though terraces.

Around 5:00pm reach Hang Kia with a small and scenic valley, which is home to a group of Flower H’mong minority people.

Overnight with a H’mong family. While our local guide cooks dinner we can take shower or stroll around the village.

Dinner around 7.30 pm. Before going to bed we will treat our feet with herbal foot massage, which you do by yourself with the guide’s instruction.

Day 2: Trekking from Hang Kia to Van Village (B,L,D)

After breakfast in the house, say goodbye to the family and begin an exciting trekking day. Right after the village, walk on jungle trail for one hour. The trail could be a bit wet due to the dense trees that keep sunlight away. After that, descend the hill passing farm and terraces. The scenery is stunning with mountains, terraces and expansive valley. During the trek have some breaks for snack, rest, and photographing. After crossing a small river, reach a village of White Thai minority group

Lunch in a local house. After lunch, have a short nap in the house.

In the remainder of the day, walk on village road to reach Van Village, a beautiful village of White Thai minority people. The road runs zigzag along the valley and through lots of scenic village. Walk through these villages the locals may try to invite to come to their house and have dinner with them.

Have dinner and stay overnight in a Thai family.

Day 3: Trekking from Van Village to Buoc Village (B,L,D)

After breakfast say goodbye to the family and begin 3-hr trek in the morning to reach Buoc Village. The path will runs uphill and down hill through bamboo forest, terraces and farms. On the trek, see farmers working on their farms.

Around 12 pm, reach Buoc Village, another scenic village of White Thai minority people. Local lunch house and take a short nap if you wish. In the afternoon, enjoy 2-hr leisure trek around the village. Weather permitting, at the end of the day, enjoy the cool water of the stream nearby the homestay.

Dinner will be cooked by our local guide. Foot massage before bedding time.

Day 4: Mai Chau Trekking to Van Mai – Transfer to Hanoi (B,L)

After breakfast say goodbye to the family and enjoy the last trekking along mountain foot to reach Van Mai, take a short transfer to Pom Coong Village for lunch in a local house. After lunch, head back to Hanoi. Return to Hanoi around 5pm. Tour ends.

Mai Chau, White Tai minority

I have to start with an apologize cause I don’t have much linguistic inspiration for the moment… I am too busy with my project of a documentation corner, ( I will tell you later about that)

But I don’t want to keep my pictures that I made in the peaceful valley of Mai Chau trek…

So just a short story…

Mai Chau was on my priority list since the beginning… if you know me a bit than you won’t be surprised that I was immediately excited by reading ” get a real experience by staying at a stilt house with the local family”… last Friday I finally “created” some time to get this experience…

The journey from Mai Chau was a challenge and a test for my patience and survival skills… first the bus, then a motorcycle to catch a another bus, being kicked out in the middle of nowhere and with people around me that were showing me only 3 fingers ( = 3 kilometers, right) so I started to walk, took a ride on the back of a cycle when I was tired, bagged a girl to help me to catch a taxi. I walked again, the lady followed me and picked me up and brought me the next village (=3 kilometers but not Mai Chau) and there I found a man that wanted to bring me to Mai Chau on the back of his Xe Om ( motorbike)… a trip in the dark through the valley and the mountains of more than an hour!

But, don’t worry… everything under control and I reached Mai Chau, booked my coconut carpet on the floor in the house of a local family … the beginning of an amazing experience!

The valley is a source of peace and quietness… paddy fields all around, the people still live in stilt houses and the mountains keep the beauty as a treasure…

It is one of my favorites in North Vietnam!

treking Mai Chau Viet Nam

Welcome to Mai Chau Trek

Mai Chau Trek is a travel portal site managed by Vietnam Package Travel Company and specializing in operating tour to Mai Chau, a beautiful landscape in the Northwest province of Hoa Binh, Vietnam.

Mai Chau trek is the heart of a beautiful valley that is a world away from the hustle of Hanoi. The modern village is an unappealing sprawl, but as you emerge on the rice fields and rural living is transformed into a real paradise. It’s a stunning area, and the most people here are ethnic White Thai, distantly related to tribes in Thailand, Laos and China.