From Hanoi/Ninh Binh: Mai Chau & Pu Luong 2-Day Trekking Tour with Bamboo Rafting

Depart from Hanoi or Ninh Binh
and spend 2 days in Mai Chau and Pu Luong

This 2-day tour picks you up from your hotel in Hanoi or Ninh Binh and takes you to Mai Chau Valley and Pu Luong Nature Reserve in the mountains of northern Vietnam. With an English-speaking guide, enjoy cycling, trekking, silk weaving and bamboo rafting. Lunch and dinner on day 1 and breakfast and lunch on day 2 are included. Depending on the option, you stay in a private room with balcony at a homestay, eco lodge or eco resort.

Cycle around Mai Chau Valley

Leave your hotel around 7:30-8:00 AM and drive about 3.5-4 hours, including a short break, to Mai Chau Valley. After a traditional lunch prepared by a local Thai family, take a gentle bike ride through rice fields and stilt-house villages and learn about traditional weaving and dyeing at a silk workshop.

In the afternoon, head to Nim Cave and take a short hike to a viewpoint overlooking Mai Chau Valley.

Spend the night at a mountain lodge in Pu Luong

In the late afternoon, continue to Pu Luong Nature Reserve, check in to your mountain accommodation and relax with views of the terraced rice fields. Dinner is served at the lodge.

After breakfast on day 2, visit the home of a Thai artisan in Lan village to learn how silk is made, from cocoon to finished fabric, and try weaving yourself. On Thursdays and Sundays, also explore Pho Doan local market, where ethnic minority communities trade local produce and handicrafts.

Trek through terraced fields and board a bamboo raft

See traditional bamboo water wheels and rural life in Chieng Lau village, then trek 1-2 km past terraced rice fields, gardens and remote villages to Cham Stream. Board a bamboo raft and drift gently downstream while enjoying a freshly prepared lunch on the raft.

Depart around 1:00 PM for Hanoi or Ninh Binh and arrive at your hotel around 6:00-6:30 PM, where the tour ends.

※ Pho Doan local market is visited on Thursdays and Sundays only.
※ Swimming in the stream is possible only in warm weather and when conditions are safe.
※ The itinerary may change depending on local conditions.