Travelling throughout the Northwest region, Dutch photographer Mick Palarczyk took photographs of the land and the people.

Travelling throughout the Northwest region, Dutch photographer Mick Palarczyk took photographs of the land and the people.

Beautiful scenery in Tam Duong, Lai Chau.

Black Dao women in Tam Duong with complex hairstyles. Children's hats decorated with coins, believed to have the ability to dispel evil spirits.

Two H’mong girls at the Bac Ha Fair, Lao Cai.

This giant "butterfly", dress of a Hmong woman, airs out on a fence in a village on the Chay riverbank.

Hmong Hoa women in Bac Ha.

Lac Village in Mai Chau (Hoa Binh), surrounded by rice fields in a romantic valley.

A stilt house of the White Thai people in Lac Village.

The road in the village of White Thai people in Mai Chau.

Black Thai women bathe their children near Nam La River, Son La.

The "water wheel" in the Nam La River.

 Source: VNB

NEW VISION HOTEL would like to recommend Sapa Trekking 02 Days 03 Nights (Home Stay) tour.This trip gives you the best Sapa has to offer but not in the normal way. The traditional treks start in Sapa and finish back in Sapa. This special trek starts in Ben Den and finishes in Sapa. The trek is tougher but not less enjoyable since you trek through the hills and valleys of the Sapa region, discovering several different minorities along the way. You will experience overnight accommodation in the hospitable villages of Dzay, Tay and Dzao ethnic minorities. The apparent hardships are worth it though as we walk through some of the most spectacular scenery that Vietnam has to offer and experience unique villages culture.

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SAPA TREKKING

2 DAYS - 3 NIGHTS ( Home Stay)

Highlights: : Learn more about daily life of the minority people like BlackH’mong,Red Dzao.. Enjoy Sapa’s mountainous on the way trekking. Come to visit the hydroelectric power station built by the French Meals: Breakfast, Luch, Dinner


Depart at 20.30pm from Hanoi Overnight on AC Soft Sleeper Hanoi - Lao Cai train



Day 01 : Sapa – Y Linh Ho – Lao Chai – Ta Van (B, L, D)



We will pick you up at Lao Cai railway station by bus, to take you up to the township of Sapa which takes approx one hour arriving at.


08:00am : After breakfast and a morning shower, we will walk from Sapa towards Muong Hoa valley where we can admire magnificient landscape. Here you will discover the wonderful scenery of Hoang Lien moutain ranges amd meet Black H’mong tribes. Trek through terraced rice paddies and minority villages along the Muong Hoa River, where we can here a nice swim.



We then cross the suspension bridge towards the Zay village, arriving at Ta Van, where we have dinner cooked on a wood fire enjoying the company and hospitality of our Zay family and homestay overnight.

Day 02 : Ta Van – Giang Ta Chai – Su Pan – Sa pa (B, L, D)



Enjoy mountainous landscape with your sunrise coffee, then enjoy a delicious breakfast ready to trek through bamboo forests towards Giang Ta Chai waterfall, cross over a rattan suspension bridge and enter into Giang Ta Chai village which is inhabited by the Red Zao minorities.


Here we will experience their daily life then cross over the Muong Hoa River up the mountain to visit Supan village of the H’mong people. We then take the bus back to Sapa. Take a fresh shower in the hotel before heading to Lao Cai train station for the night train back to Ha Noi.


Price in and Per Person:

Low Season ( 4 May- 31 Aug )

Cost/pax ( USD )	1 Pax	2 Pax	3-4 Pax	5-8 Pax	Group Tour
Standard	354	209	195	180	160

High Season ( 01 Sep - 3 May )

Cost/pax ( USD )	1 Pax	2 Pax	3-4 Pax	5-8 Pax	Group Tour
Standard	374	229	215	200	180

Contact us : Website : www.newvisionhotel.com Email:      info@newvisionhotel.com

Tel: ++ 84- 4 3 9234132 Mobile: ++ 84 904273734

Tour type: Private-Group
Departure: Every day




NOTE OF THE TOUR PROGRAM

Accommodation: Home Stay

Inclusive : Private car, AC 4 berth soft sleeper train (join cabin), Entrance fees, Guide, Meals as indicated, Accommodation
Exclusive: Drinks, Insurance, Personal expenses, Tip



Please bring along a good pair of walking shoes, raincoats, jackets, inspect repellent and suncream.

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       Located east of Hanoi, northern Vietnam, Ha Long Bay is a world famous destination thanks to its amazing ocean karst topography which has made the area to be listed as one of the world’s natural wonders. ‘Ha Long’ translates to ‘Bay of Descending Dragons’. The archipelago comprises of about 1969 islands which are both uninhabited and settled. You can access these from different ports but Cat Ba is only ccessed by a bus, motorbike or car or via a combination of boat/ bus travel through Halong City.

       Being a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Ha Long Bay is one of the hottest tourist destinations in Vietnam. In fact, a large part of the bay has been officially shielded from any kind of development. Islands on this area depict great variation in structure, shape and size. There are extremely many attractions that will take you several days to fully explore. Even though Ha Long Bay can be visited at any time of the year, you would better make careful planning about your cruise. Bad weather not only spoils your trip but can also affect your vision seriously. Visiting Ha Long Bay is best done between the months of March and June and the area can be extremely overcrowded during public holidays.

        For budget travelers, you can get great deals between June and September even though you will need to watch storm forecasts carefully. Cruising along Ha Long Bay will give you a better option to explore the area in style and experience some stunning moments. There are various islands that are easily reachable during your cruise starting with Ban Sen which is a thickly forested island and almost uninhabitable. The Cat Ba Island is home to Ba Languar, an endangered cat. The island also has a national park and numerous caves which are easily accessible.

Cat Ba Island

       Quan Lan Island has great historical significance and has some beautiful beaches and good tourism infrastructure. Van Don Island is large and well inhabited but receives only a handful of tourists. Most commercial cruises will visit Dau Be Island which is one of the most popular diving and swimming spots in Ha Long Bay. With 3 inland lakes, it also has deep grottoes and corals which can be accessed with a boat. The Virgin Cave in Bo Hon Island is perhaps the most famous cave here and also has a shrine as well.

Quan Lan beaches

       Ha Long Bay cruises is undeniably the best way of enjoying and discovering the natural wonders of this area. You will visit the hidden lagoons, exotic grottoes and unexploited beaches which are stunningly awesome sites. The Ha Long Bay casino is a good place to kill time and throw away your money during the vacation. This international casino has two gambling halls and coffee lounges with slot machines. The main specialty of Ha Long Bay and the larger island of Van Don District is Tu Hai, also called snail spout. This shellfish is very valuable and rare in the region and one of the main reasons why visitors come here.

Van Don beaches

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Overview:

Discovering Vietnam in a couple of week will enable you to visit the major places of interest of the country. With the harmonious combination of activities like sight-seeing, walking, cycling, cruising…and relaxing, this trip can maximize your possibility of exploring the beauty of nature, the diversification of cultures; experiencing the hospitability of the people as well as enjoying the delicious local cuisine. This holiday itinerary is especially favorable for those who want to travel to the most exciting sites of Vietnam in the fairly shortest period of time.

Short Itinerary:

Days 1-2: Arrive in Hanoi. Take a tourism hanoi Old Quarters by pedicabs then watch a traditional water puppet show. Explore the city's histotical, cultural attractions like Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum and Museum, the Temple of Literature, the Ethnology Museum and so on before catching night train to Laocai

Days 3-5: Arrive in Sapa - the most stunning mountain town in North Vietnam, then take easy hikes to ethnic minority villages of the Black H’Mong, Red Dao and Giay. Explore the scenic beauty of Hoang Lien Mountains, Muong Hoa Valley covered by countless rice terraces. Enjoy the comfortable stay in eco-friendly bungalow at Topas Ecolodge and take the night train back to Hanoi in the evening of day 5.

Days 6-7: Transfer from Hanoi to Halong Bay, get aboard on a Traditional Style Junk which cruises among thousands of limestone islands emerging from crystal water. Enjoy fresh seafood, visit amazing grottos and caves and swim at the pristine beach. Later on day 7 you have a drive to Hanoi Airport for the flight to Hue.

Day 8: Take a bicycle ride to visit Nam Giao esplanade, the Tomb of Tu Duc King and then get on boat for a cruise on poetic Perfume River. Continue on wheels to explore Thien Mu Pagoda, the historical Citadel before take a two-hour drive to Hoi An.

Days 9-10: Spend your free time in Hoi An to explore the historical and cultural values of this ancient town, enjoy the magnificent beauty of crystal sandy beach in Cua Dai, which is only few kilometres away from the town or join our other packages in the area before taking flight from Danang to Ho Chi Minh City.

Day 11: Visit Cu Chi Tunnels, the renowned area for guerrillas war. Further explore the city's historical and cultural attractions such as the Re-Unification Palace, the Notre Dame Cathedral and the War Remain Museum and the like.

Days 12-13: Explore Mekong Delta, the biggest "rice basket" area of Vietnam, by a motored-boat cruising on the mighty Mekong River. Observe the vivid life at Cai Be and Cai Rang floating markets, a characteristic style of trading in Mekong Delta area. Take gentle bicycle ride on village road on An Binh Island. Enjoy the scenic beauty of fruitful orchards, enormous rice fields and evergreen canals. Experience local cultures and traditional careers like making coconut candy, rice paste, rice pancake and so on. Then take a transfer back to Saigon.

Floating market travel Mekong

Day 14: Spend your leisure in the city then have a transfer to the airport for your onward travel.

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        Tourism Hanoi's Old Quarter is indispensable when a visitor to Hanoi, feel the distinctions of the city with houses, streets still retain their appearance from the late 19th century. Hanoi tourists can wander all day in the old town, exploring the little nooks where the tranquility, which is busy. Enjoy the specialties of Hanoi in the cafes, restaurants, or spend the night at the hotel in the Old Quarter of Hanoi Vietnam to see ancient beauty that is modern here.

         As a city with a long history, traditional culture and rich diversity, is one of those places attract many tourists at home and abroad in Vietnam.

         Ba Dinh Square, the place was known as President Ho Chi Minh read the Declaration of Independence, gave birth to the country of Vietnam. Moreover, the Ba Dinh Square is the place to keep the corpse of President Ho Chi Minh.

Consumer lines to visit the corpse of President Ho Chi Minh at Ba Dinh Square

         In the landscape of the capital, the first to mention Quoc Tu Giam Template- the first university of Vietnam, as well as places of worship Confucius and put Dr. Beer.

Quoc Tu Giam Template

         One of the symbols of Hanoi's One Pillar Pagoda, the temple architecture of the most unique lotus Vietnam. At the heart of the city, between Hoan Kiem Lake with Ngoc Son Temple, West Lake is a local tourist attraction.

Hanoi's One Pillar Pagoda

        As a center of Buddhism, Taoism in Vietnam for centuries, Hanoi has many temples hundreds of years old, although undergoing many changes, but they still retain ancient. In the most ancient Tran Quoc Pagoda, built in the reign of King Ly Nam De (6th century).

 Tran Quoc Pagoda

        Since the 19th century, many churches were built in Hanoi, which is the largest Cathedral in Hanoi, in addition Cua Bac church is also notable with French colonial architecture typical.

Cathedral in Hanoi

         Tourists travel to Hanoi to visit the city's Opera House, located at No. 1 Trang Tien Street built by the French. This is one of the cultural centers of Hanoi, where frequent cultural activities, art performances. And also at the center of the conference, meeting.

The ancient beauty of Hanoi Opera House

         Hanoi is the city with the system's most diverse museums in Vietnam, totaling more than 10 museums. One of them is the history museum: Museum of Ethnology Vietnam Museum of Military History, Vietnam History Museum, B52 Victory Museum, Revolution Museum ... Other fields may include the Vietnam Fine Arts Museum, the Vietnam Women's Museum ...

Ho Chi Minh Museum - Hanoi

         Hanoi also special because there are so many lakes in the heart of the city, and the city is surrounded by rivers.

          More most popular and most mysterious historic Hoan Kiem Lake, located right in the heart of Hanoi, where it usually takes place the major cultural activities of the city, such as cultural performances, fireworks , ... This is also centralized location of many young people and international tourists.

          Unlike Hoan Kiem Lake, West Lake is the largest lake in Hanoi, where it is relatively peaceful atmosphere despite being the focus of many young people. Each evening there are yacht walk around West Lake, daytime, you can rent bikes and stroll the lake water. Enjoy the sunset on the West Lake is also a thing to do when you visit Hanoi.

One afternoon Westlake

         Also, when you travel in Hanoi, you can also visit one of the best hotels in Vietnam, were readers of Travel + Leisure voted the best hotel - Sofitel Legend Metropole Hotel Hanoi

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Day 1 in Sapa:
        Today was unbelievable. You know those fantasy lands you dream up as a child? That’s what Sapa is. The little mountain town sits in the North of Vietnam. Mist fills the sky and lush green rice fields spread for miles in all directions. I wouldn’t have been surprised if a unicorn and rainbow appeared in the distance.

Clouds covered the city sapa

         Our night train from hotel in Hanoi Vietnam arrived in the town of Lao Cai where I took a bus about an hour up into the mountains to Sapa. I had prearranged to spend two days and two nights on a tour led by a woman named Hong who I was referred to by a girl I met in Bangkok. Hong picked me up when I arrived in Sapa and took me to a little hotel where I would spend my first night. After finally showered and taking my clothes to be laundered, Hong and I hit the road on her motorbike! Our first stop was down the mountain to a little village called Ta Phin where the local Red Dzao people live. The women wear traditional clothing and are distinguished by their red scarf headpieces. Hong had arranged for me to visit a family and their home. The woman, her husband, and her three children shared their home with five other women. The Dzao are known for their extremely intricate embroidered handiwork. They showed me their little craft area and I bought one of their traditional headscarves from them after they fully dressed me in one of their own outfits.

Love Waterfall

         After leaving Ta Phin we rode for almost an hour up the mountain to see a few of the amazing waterfalls Sapa has. Along the way, Hong informed me that she was the first woman in Sapa to start her own tours and has been helping her other female friends by teaching them English and how to give guided tours. You go girl! She also informed me of the difficulties of life here in Vietnam. Women do most of the work in Sapa and a lot of husbands are known to be drunks and abusive. She said her husband is an exception and that he does work but it’s difficult for him to give tours because he doesn’t know English. She has a two and and a five year old that live with their grandmother because she has to work so much. Her oldest daughter has just started school and it costs 4,000,000 dong (almost $200) each year to send her to school. College is a whole different animal but something incredibly valued in their society. It was an honor to have such an amazing woman as my guide!

Market places of indigenous peoples Sapa

          We made it up to a huge waterfall surging over the cliff of one side of a mountai. We trekked up until we reached a bridge that splits it at the middle. It was so beautiful! After hanging out in the splash zone for a while, we got back on the road. We drove another 20 minutes up the mountain to Heaven Gate where you could see a trench in the mountains that seemed to go on forever until it vanished in the distant haze. Another few minutes down the mountain and we reached another waterfall, Love Waterfall. We trekked about 2 km to reach it. The waterfall came down over the edge of a mossy stone edge of the mountain and into an ice cold pool. I took my shoes off and let the cold water run over my feet while I gazed up at nature’s incredible creation.

         Hong dropped me back off at my hotel once we got to Sapa and I spent the evening walking around Sapa’s cute little streets. Sapa town has a lot of French influence and the buildings are all brightly painted with European style balconies and clay tiled rooftops. There is a beautiful lake in the center if town where there are flower beds, cute little lampposts and park benches, and even swan boats available for rent. It almost felt like I was in a romantic little European mountain town. Tomorrow Hong is picking me up at 9:30 am to get our day started early. We are staying with a local family tomorrow night after visiting a few other villages throughout the day.

Day 2 in Sapa:
I can’t believe today marks the first day of the last month of my travels. I had noodles and coffee for breakfast yet again! Hong picked up food at the market this morning for our home stay and two days of trekking and adventure. We drove by motorbike to Ta Van village and trekked through the Lao Chai and Y Linh Ho villages. The Hmong people dress in all black and use indigo to dye the fabric they make by hand. In many homes there were big vats of the indigo concoction and big wooden looms. They also are pretty ingenuitive in building these machines to peel the grain of rice from it’s little shell. It’s a sort if teeter totter thing and when one side fills with water running from the stream and then gets heavy and empties, the other side comes smashing down into a tub of rice.

Ta Phin village entrance has two rows of trees stretching sides

           We visited the school in each little village and made lunch with a family in Tan Van. They were making rice wine in a giant barrel when we arrived. If I had time two stay two months I would’ve been able to taste it! I helped make lunch with the family and after eating we drove all the way to Ban Ho village at the base of the mountain. Hong arranged a home stay with a family that lived in a beautiful old wooden home. We walked around town and grabbed banana Popsicles. Normally the weather is very mild and cool in Sapa, but today was exceptionally hot. When we arrived back at our family home, we started the long process of preparing dinner. Hong arranged for us to have vegetable spring rolls with homemade sweet chili sauce, steamed rice, veggie soup, steamed pumpkin, and fried river fish. After a full day of adventure we called it an early night in anticipation for our last day of the tour in the morning.

Day 3 in Sapa:
         This morning we started our day off with, you guessed it, noodles! On our way back to Sapa we stopped for one final trek in Giang Ta Chai Village. We walked about 2 miles over a river to the other side of the mountain which I hadn’t been to yet. I feel like I’ve run out of adjectives to describe how insanely beautiful Sapa is, so I’ll just say it was insanely beautiful! We got back to Sapa Town around 11 am where I bid farewell to Hong. If you ever, and I highly advise you do, come to Sapa you absolutely 100% need to have Hong show you around. She is a true gem.

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