CENTRAL ROAD OF VIETNAM
5 days, 4 nights.
Day 1: Hanoi - Vu Linh. ~180 km, ~7 h.
Easy drive to on the sealed road to Thac Ba Lake and follow the little road to Vu Linh. Vu Linh is a Dzao village by the side of the lake, very friendly people and the welcome is exceptional.
Day 2: Vu Linh - Song Thao. ~180 km, ~8 h.
We will cruise on the lake from east to west, until Yen Binh. Ride from Vu Linh to Song Thao, we will ride through limestone and palm trees, on asphalted road and dirt roads.
Song Thao is a very small village lost in the hills on west bank of Black river. The particular thing is that this is the place where we grow lacquer trees to collect the precious substance called lacquer.
We are welcome in the house of our friends. You meet Kinh (ethnic Vietnamese). We propose to stay in the house of the two "uncles", direct descendant of the ancestor who discovered the property of this tree and the way to use it, about four hundreds years ago (quite recently compared to China who knew about lacquer few thousands years ago).
Day 3: Song Thao - Nghia Lo. ~150 km, ~5 h.
Easy ride on sealed road. Drive through rural areas with beautiful rice field along the road.
Day 4: Nghia Lo - Mu Cang Chai - Than Uyen. ~140 km, ~5 h.
The road is wild and bumpy. Between Sapa and Hanoi, we will find an important mountainous massif, almost as high as the Fansipan: the Mu Cang Chai. From the top, we have one of the most beautiful views of North Vietnam.
Day 5: Than Uyen - Sapa. End. ~120 km, ~4 h.
Walk / stroll in the morning. Direction Sapa. Arrive in Sapa in the afternoon.
The guide and driver will ride down to Lao Cai for the train to Hanoi at 8 pm.
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