North-west Vietnam motorbike tour to Sapa with night train
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Hanoi – Mai Chau – Phu Yen – Son La – Muong Lay – Lai Chau – Sapa – Lao Cai -night train- Hanoi
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Day 1: Hanoi motorcycle tour to Mai Chau (Hoa Binh)Hanoi motobike tours

In the morning we start our motorbike tour by leaving Hanoi on dyke roads to avoid the heavy traffic around 9 am , we ride our motorcycles west to Mai Chau, an area of beautiful landscape and home to the Thai ethnic minority.
We will ride on Highway 6 passing extensive farming lands comprising a sea of paddy fields split by tree-lined roads punctuated by limestone karst scenery.
After a light lunch in Hoa Binh Province, we cross Thung Khe, one of the most beautiful mountain passes in North Vietnam then descent to the mountain valley settlement of Mai Chau. After dinner we join performance, where you can dance and share a range of special liquors (rice wine) with the locals. Overnight in a house-on-stilts of the Thai people.

Summary:
Distance: 160 km
Meals: Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Home-stay
Day 2: Mai Chau motorcycle tour to Phu Yen (Son La)

Mai Chau is one of the closest places to Hanoi where you can experience a 'real' Montagnard village. In the morning we take a short walk around village to discover local life. Life in the countryside starts early so by sunrise there is a wealth of activity. The Thai women are masterful weavers who ensure that there is plenty of traditional-style Mai Chau Motorcycle toursclothing to buy in the village centre. You will see women weaving on looms under or inside their houses in the village We can buy some handmade traditional-style clothing, knife or cross-bow.
After breakfast in home-stay, we say goodbye to villagers and leave Mai Chau around 10 am. We ride from Mai Chau to the direction of Moc Chau, where we have lunch. This highland town produces some of Vietnam's best tea and is a good place to stock up. The surrounding area is also home to several ethnic minorities, including Green H'mong, Dzao, Thai and Muong. Moc Chau boasts a pioneering dairy industry that started in the late 1970s with Australian (and, later, UN) assistance. The dairy provides Hanoi with such delectable iuxur us as fresh milk, sweetened condensed milk and little tooth-rotting bars called “Banh sua”.
After lunch, we turn to the less travelled Road 43 leading to the Da River, crossing the reservoir of Da river at Van Yen ferry, then ride on a beautiful winding secondary road until Phu Yen mountain town (a district of Son La Province in the Northwestern region of Vietnam), where we stay in a basic guest-house.

Summary:
Distance: 140 km
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Guest-house
Day 3: Phu Yen motorcycle tour to Son La CityPhu Yen motorbike trips

Continuing our motorbike tour on the almost empty Road 37 we enter mountains heavily populated with Black Thai people, who work on large terraced rice fields. The winding road passes through many Thai villages and fields and provides a great opportunity to watch country life passing by. We continue through rolling hills before rising up to the sugar cane growing areas on the cooler Son La plateau.
Late lunch in Son La City, the capital of Son La Province, before we visit The Old French Prison & Museum. It was once the site of a French penal colony where anticolonial revolutionaries were incarcerated. It was destroyed by the infamous “off-loading” of unused ammunition by US warplanes that were returning to their bases after bombing raids, but it has been partially restored. Rebuilt turrets and watch towers stand guard over the remains of cells, inner walls and a famous lone surviving peach tree. The tree, which blooms with traditional “Tet flowers”, was planted in the compound by To Hieu, a former inmate from the 1940s. To Hieu has subsequently been immortalised. with various landmarks now named after him.
Overnight in Son La City.

Summary:
Distance: 160 km
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Hotel
Day 4: Son La motorcycle tour to Muong Lay (Dien Bien)Son La motorbike tours

Heading out northwest from Son La, the road crosses a series of mountain passes and areas of busy Black Thai activity. Children walk to school, kids tend buffaloes, women plant rice seedlings and men pull the buffalo. Then we come to the beginning of the very long and steep Pha Din pass where at the top we have vast views of the surrounding mountains, then down the other side on very steep sealed road. Lunch in Tuan Giao.
Heading out northwest from Tuan Giao the road passes isolated communities of Hmong and Thai people, whose small villages settle on the banks of dark green rivers and on the steep slopes of the mountains. Afterwards, by a forest stream the road begins to climb up the high Xa Tong pass. At the top for sunset before dropping sharply into the deep Lai Chau valley. Muong Lay old town was sunk in early 2010 and our new place for overnighting is new town, which is located on higher level.

Summary:
Distance: 220 km
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Hotel
Day 5: Muong Lay motorcycle tour to Lai Chau Town

After breakfast we will start our easy day along stunning gorges and passing Sin HoMuong Lay motorbike tours town - the “second Sapa” of the northwest.
Flying far from the well-known and colorful markets of Sapa, Bac Ha and Can Cau, is the bewitching northwest mountainous area of Vietnam with the remote town and market of Sin Ho, the roof of Lai Chau province. Sin Ho town is located on the highest peak of the Sin Ho plateau in Lai Chau province, over 2,000m above sea level, and surrounded by verdant mountain ranges and clouds.
On the way we will have interesting stops to visit H’mong and Dzao villages before motorbiking down to Lai Chau, where we spend night at the hotel.

Summary:
Distance: 130 km
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Hotel
Day 6: Lai Chau motorcycle tour to Sapa (Lao Cai)

We motorcycle head straight toward the main Fansipan Mountain range. There is also the option for a very challenging back route which takes us through several river crossings. The massive mountain range dominates the road until finally we must make aLai Chau motorbike tours splendid climb up from Binh Lu and up to the top of the highest road pass in Vietnam (Tram Ton Pass). Crossing into Lao Cai Province at over 2,000m the views looks out over the main range for miles and miles, before we descend to the mountainous Sa Pa valley. Overnight in Sapa.

Summary:
Distance: 80 km
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Hotel
Day + Night 7: Sapa – Lao Cai – Hanoi

Free time in Sapa, spending time to visit the town, shop handicrafts for souvenir or chat with locals, whose speak very good English, will tell you lovely stories about their traditions.
In the afternoon, we ride down to Train station in Lao Cai city, catch the night train back to Hanoi.
Arriving Hanoi by next early morning.

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Lai Chau is one of the North West Frontier Province of Vietnam , north of the People's Republic of China , to the west and southwest borders of Dien Bien province , east of Lao Cai province , southeastern border province of Yen Bai , and Son La Province to the south .

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Lai Chau province 103 communal units include 3 wards, 8 towns and 92 communes. Lai Chau province's population is 370,135 people, ranked No. 62/63 provinces and cities nationwide, Bac Kan province. Lai Chau is one town and six districts:

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Lai Chau has 20 ethnic groups, each ethnic group has its own definition of traditional cultural life. Upland fair is expressed very clearly the specific culture.

Lai Chau Cultural Tourism: Palace Deo Van Long Le Loi - Sin Ho , the compound of the Thai king puppet in the French war. Become a historic mansion, education, ethnic pride, evidence for the downfall who bow to slavery and is the place to visit to learn the characteristic architecture, the Thai cultural identity. Beer Le Loi: carved cliff on the northern bank of the Black River, now part of Le Loi - Sin Ho district. Archaeological sites of the ancient Vietnamese civilization as heritages coffee, Nam Tun in Phong Tho ;'ve found tools of the Stone Age; copper tools of the Dong Son culture of Hung Vuong era.

Lai Chau Natural Landscape: Lai Chau has many high plateau over 1,500 meters, clouds, fog covered the four seasons, fresh air, cool year round including: Sin Ho plateau , Lake Thau , the island of San ... Lai Chau has many high peaks, river rapids, such as: Fansipan peak (3.143m), the range of Pu Sam Cap (above 1700 m), river , river Nam Na , river Nam Mu ... Hot springs, mineral water are natural produce donated to Lai Chau, rock Oh, Korea (Sin Ho); Tien Son in Binh Lu Tam Duong, waterfall Code Love (Tam Duong TT), hot springs Gold Bundle (Phong Tho); East hot springs Na, Na Don (Tam Duong); spas (Than Uyen); ... and other large hydropower. Pu Dao: One minor Mongolia 887 people in Lai Chau was a client travel firms England elected as one of the most attractive destinations in Southeast Asia . [1] Social Pu Dao (in Mongolia means "the highest point") in Sin Ho district, a town Muong Lay 13 miles.

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Situated imposingly on the Sin Ho plateau of Lai Chau province, Sin Ho town is located on the highest peak, over 2,000 metres higher than sea level and surrounded by verdant mountain ranges and clouds.

The small town is also well-known as the second Sapa of the northwest area. But the climate in Sin Ho is even more sour and scornful than that of Sapa. Suddenly, you can be standing in a sea of white clouds, then, just several minutes later, the rain will rumble down like a waterfall. But right after the last rain drop falls, the sun will rise brilliantly and a cool wind will blow over the small town.
Visiting Sin Ho, tourists can join Sin Ho market, which is opened every Sunday. The market is regarded as the most crowded one with various types of commodities from foods, technological equipments, household utensils, etc. Many species of orchids are also sold here. Visitors can buy souvenirs in a big souvenir store in the market.

On Sunday morning, the sleepy town comes alive. From all paths up and down leading to the town centre, waves of tribes people walk or ride horses and motorbikes, all loaded with many kinds of farm products, toward the market. These tribes come from many unsociable villages up and down the mountains. They are Flower Hmong, Blue Hmong, Black Hmong, Lu, Black Dao and Red Dao, amongst others.

Apart from the Sin Ho market which is the most important highlight of any trip to Lai Chau, a trek to Pha Xo Lin village is also worth the journey. The village is located just three kilometres from the town centre. The village is home to the Dao Khau tribe, also known as the Sewing Dao, or the Black Dao, who wear black trousers richly embroidered with signature flower, tree and star patterns seen on many Dao costumes. They also wear a front hanging black apron with a wide, plain blue band around its outside, together with a plain black turban.

The Pha Xo Lin village is very gorgeous and poetic, with dark wooden houses roofed with black marble tiles and fenced in with marble hedges. It’s mouthwatering to walk in the village, where you can take a seat under the fruit trees to delight in lovely lanterns swinging in the cool winds and their fresh and sweet tastes. Pha Xo Lin village is very well-known for its special golden red mangoes, with their sweet taste and jackfruit-like flavour.

Besides its tasty fruits, Pha Xo Lin village is a shopping paradise of brocades and embroidery products. It’s common to see Dao women sitting at their thresholds in their front yards or under the fruit trees sewing passionately. While you’re there, don’t miss out on buying some clothes, scarves or other decorous things from the tribes people. Their products are very refined and gorgeous, as befitting of their name—the Sewing Dao tribe.