Ngoc Son Ngo Luong Nature Reserve is a beautiful new ecotourism destination to the southwest of Hanoi city. It is situated between Cuc Phuong National Park and Pu Luong Nature Reserve. The Ngoc Son Ngo Luong Nature Reserve (NSNL NR) contains a variety of wonderful landscapes and ecosystems, and is also home to traditional villages of the Muong ethnic minority.
Highlight
- Rafting on peaceful Buoi River from Khanh village to Bien village
- Enjoy traditional music performance of Muong people and tasty “Can” wine
- Trekking on the trails running through villages and rice terraces
Brief Itinerary:
Day 1: Hanoi – Ngoc Son Ngo Luong (Thuong – Ri – Mon) (L, D)
Day 2: Mon – Khay – Mu - Khuong (B, L, D)
Day 3: Khuong – Sat - Thuong (B, L, D)
Day 4: Khuong – Mu - Chieng - HANOI (B, L)
Day 1: Hanoi – Ngoc Son Ngo Luong (Thuong – Ri – Mon) (L, D)
Leaving Hanoi at 7.30am by car, you keep enjoying beautiful scenery along Ho Chi Minh Highway until you get Khanh village. Upon arrival, you will spend one and a half hour rafting on peaceful Buoi River from Khanh village to Bien village. After rafting, car will take you to Co Ba shop where you continue to take motorbike-taxi to Thuong village. After enjoying lunch in Mo Waterfall homestay in Thuong village, you start to trek through green forest surrounded by rolling mountain where you can enjoy the freshest air, smell natural fragrance of trees, grasses, wild flowers, indulge your eyes with endless green and listen to birdsong. Some parts of the trek, you will walk in cool clear stream. Getting out of the forest, you step on Ri village (NSNL Nature Reserve). Then motorbike-taxi will take you from Ri village to pretty Mon village. After dinner, you take a chance to enjoy traditional music performance of Muong people and tasty “Can” wine and stay overnight in a nice homestay in this village.
Data:
Hanoi - NSNL NR: 3.5 hour driving;
1.5 hour rafting;
Thuong village – Ri village: Moderate trek, 4 – 4.5 hour walking; Some parts of the trek are in the streams and can be slippery;
Ri village – Mon village: 30 – 45 minute motorbike driving;
Day 2: Mon – Khay – Mu - Khuong (B, L, D)
After breakfast, you start the second trekking day. You will follow village road from Mon village to Khay village. From Khay village, you continue trekking to Mu village. This is a hard trekking route, sometimes you will climb up to the hillside where you can capture nice pictures of peaceful villages nestling under canopy of green trees. Today you will enjoy an unforgettable picnic lunch.
Arrive at Mu village, you will spend time visiting the stream providing rice paddy fields of Mu village with water year-around as well as beautiful traditional stilt houses under the shadow of palm leaves, an old water-power rice mortar and stunning Mu waterfall. Say goodbye Mu village, you will walk on another short trail to Khuong village and stay overnight in Mu Stream homestay, located next to Mu stream.
Data:
Mon viilage – Khay village: Easy trek, 1 hour walking;
Khay village – Mu village: Hard trek, 2.5 – 3 hour walking;
Mu village – Khuong village: Easy trek, 20 minute walking.
Day 3: Khuong – Sat - Thuong (B, L, D)
Today, let’s be a hard-working farmer! You can join farming work in paddy field with local people in Khuong village. You can turn over the soil, remove grass…with your own hands. It’s certain that you will have memorable experiences! (optional, you are free to stroll around Khuong and Sat Thuong village whole day instead)
After a hard working morning, you can immerse in cool and clean water in Mu stream, and then enjoy delicious lunch in homestay. In the afternoon, you stroll around Khuong and Sat Thuong village. From the top of the hill, you will see the picturesque village lying at your feet, you may lie on the grass, close your eyes to listen to birdsong. After a fine trekking day, you come back Mu Stream homestay to enjoy dinner and take a rest.
Data:
1.5 – 2 hour walking, easy trek, some parts of the trek are in stream and can be slippery.
Day 4: Khuong – Mu - Chieng - HANOI (B, L)
You wake up early in the sound of nature. After breakfast, you start trekking on a trail running through villages and rice terraces to Chieng village. Lunch is served there in Mountain Flower Homestay. And then you have a car transfer back to Hanoi.
Data:
Khuong village – Chieng village: easy trek, 2 – 2.5 hour walking;
NSNL - Hanoi: 3 – 3.5 hour driving.
Trip Included:
- Rafting as itinerary
- Motorbike-taxi as itinerary
- Local guide & English speaking guide
- Breakfast (B), lunch (L) & dinner (D) as indicated
- Accommodation (homestay)
- Environment and conservation fee
- Private transfer Hanoi – NSGL – Hanoi
- Music performance
Trip Excluded:
- Travel insurance
- Visa on arrival
- Porter
- Tips and things not mentioned in itinerary.
- Drinks and meals not mentioned in itinerary.
- Any other service not mentioned