6 Days Vietnam Trekking Tour to Cuc Phuong and Pu Luong Nature Reserve

  Day 1: Hanoi – Cuc Phuong National Park

7:30 Am pick up from your hotel in Hanoi and leave hustle and bustle city behind, our shuttle bus will take you over two hours out of the city,  you will enjoy pristine nature and authentic village life on the way.  We continue to Cuc Phuong, the oldest National Park of  Vietnam, which boasts an engaging cultural and wildlife heritage and enchanting scenery. Upon arrival, you will check in at the hotel/guest house and then have lunch in the local restaurant at the park headquarter. In the afternoon, you will visit Turtle Conservation Center, the Endangered Primate Rescue Center – one of the highlights of a visit to Cuc Phuong, where you can observe some of the rarest primate species in the world. The primate center houses specimens of langurs, loris, and gibbon species, including the critically endangered Delacour’s Langur, Golden-headed Langur, Tonkin Snub-nosed Langur, and Black Crested Gibbon. After that, you will come back to the hotel/guest house to have dinner and stay overnight in the sound of nature.
Summary:

Activities: Transferring from Hotel to Cuc Phuong national park
Accommodation: Ecohomestay
Meals: L/D
Transferring distance: 150 Km/ 

Day 2: Cuc Phuong National Park – Khanh village

Waking up to the sound of gibbons, you will have breakfast and start to visit the Cave of Prehistoric Man, where human skeletons and stone tools dated some 7.500 years old have been found. Leaving the cave, the car will bring you to the park center where you start trekking through the green forest to a Khanh village, the peaceful home of the friendly Muong ethnic community. Today you will enjoy a picnic lunch en route. After lunch, we continue trekking through the dense forest leading to Ban Khanh Eco homestay village. Tonight you will enjoy a delicious home-cooked dinner with homestay owners and stay overnight in a cozy traditional stilt house.

Summary:
Activities: Trekking from Cuc Phuong National Park  – Village
Accommodation: Ecohomestay
Meals: B/L D
Trekking distance from 15 – 17 km: Trekking from 7- 8Hours

Day 3: Khanh – Thuong village – Ngoc Son Ngo Luong Nature Reserve

Tasting traditional cake is made by the host, you will feel the distinct flavor. Following the meal, we start to do bamboo rafting on a tranquil Buoi river to experience how slowly the time goes. Disembarking on the raft, the car will bring you to Thuong village which boasts a stunning Mo waterfall and welcomes Muong ethnic people. You will enjoy lunch at the homestay located next to the waterfall. In the afternoon, you will trek through the forest, climb up to the hill, walk down to a spring and finally come to Ngoc Son Ngo Luong Nature Reserve. Tonight, you will enjoy not only a big dinner with authentic Muong food but also an exciting traditional music performance by the local woman and the famous “Can” wine.

Summary:
Activities: Trekking from Village – Village
Accommodation: Ecohomestay
Meals: B/L/D
Trekking distance from 15 – 17 km: Trekking from 6-7 Hours

Day 4: Khuong village – Mon village

Get up early to stroll around the village to enjoy pristine nature and rustic village life. meet and talk with local people to understand their life. Or you just assist the host for breakfast. after breakfast we follow a trail to Mu village where you must be surprised at the wonderful Mu waterfall and a simple remaining water-power rice mortar. Remarkably, one of the best outdoor activities you can do today is swimming. At lunchtime, you will come back to Mu Stream homestay. In the afternoon,  you will walk on a trail running through villages and rice paddy fields to pretty Mon village. You will have dinner and stay overnight at Green Forest homestay there.

Summary:
Activities: Trekking from Village – Village
Accommodation: Ecohomestay
Meals: B/L/D
Trekking distance from 15 – 17 km: Trekking from 6-7 Hours

Day 5: Mon vilLage – Hieu village

After breakfast, you will say goodbye to the homestay owners and continue to do your journey. You will walk to Coi Gao village and then enter the forest. Today you will have a chance to trek through the trail which is said to be the most beautiful one in the North of Vietnam. After walking under canopies of great trees, sometimes going through small springs, and may be lost in the sound of nature for some hours, you will reach Pu Luong Nature Reserve. A picnic lunch will be served by the spring in the forest. Getting out of the forest, at sunset time, you will walk on the village road and capture the fascinating image of the emissions of cooking smoke from various stilt houses of Thai ethnic people. Arriving at Hieu village, you will be warmly welcomed by the homestay owner and then have dinner and go to bed in the murmur of Hieu waterfall.

Summary:
Activities: Trekking from Village – Village
Accommodation: Ecohomestay
Meals: B/L/D
Trekking distance from 15 – 17 km: Trekking from 6-7 Hours

Day 6: Hieu village – Hanoi

Enjoy dreamlike waterfall scenery at dawn and walk around the village to interact with local people. Have a hearty breakfast with the host and we say goodbye to them. we commence trekking along the stream, through rice terrace paddy to Pho Doan. Have lunch in Pho Doan, and take a transfer back to Hanoi on the Hochiminh highway.

Summary:
Activities: Trekking from Village – Village
Accommodation: None
Meals: B/L/
Trekking distance from 7 – 9 km: Trekking from 3- 4 Hours