Jungle Life In Ba Be National Park 4 Days 3 Nights

You will be collected from your hotel in Hanoi at 07:30 for the journey to Ba Be National Park. After roughly 2.5 hours driving, you will stop at The Museum of Culture of Vietnam's Ethnic Groups in Thai Nguyen. After, you will drive to Yen Do with lunch at a local restaurant on the way. You’ll arrive at Coc Toc Commune inside the national park and prepare for a bamboo raft ride on Ba Be lake or cycling around the area to visit the ethnic minority villages.Tonight, you will enjoy dining with a local Tay family with plenty of local specialities and possibly some local rice wine. This is a great chance to get to know the local people and understand more about their cultures. You will spend the night in Mr Linh’s Homestay.

Your local guide will meet you at the homestay to help you prepare for your night in the jungle. The first couple of hours of trekking are simple and easy. You will leave behind the small village where and walk through lush green and yellow rice fields, across various rivers, and head further into Ba Be National Park stopping along the way to greet the local people with a friendly “Xin Chao” (hello). After a couple of hours, you will snake off the gentle, flat route and begin trekking up a steep hill, covered in wet moss and vegetation. Whilst this isn’t difficult, it does provide a bit more of a challenge, and you would require a basic level of fitness to scale it. After about an hour you will reach the top, have a little rest and then begin our trek up and down the various hills a small schoolhouse where you will stop for lunch. From the schoolhouse base to our stop for the evening is a further 2-3 hour trek, and this part provides some of the most breathtaking views of the trek. You will take a short but tricky route deeper into the jungle before reaching the site where you will spend the night. You can set up camp and relax with a tasty bbq and some infamous happy water.

After an exciting and truly unforgettable night in the jungle, you will awake to the sounds of nature all around you. After a delicious al fresco breakfast, you will trek through the jungle for around three hours before reaching Ba Be Lake where a motorboat will be waiting to take you to a waterfall. You will stop along the river for lunch at a local restaurant. After a delicious lunch, you can hop back aboard the boat where you can sit back and enjoy the journey. You will head down the river, gliding past the locals washing their clothes in the river, water buffalos cooling down in the heat and all of the other interesting things that happen on the rivers of Vietnam. After an hour, you will arrive at Puong Cave, a magnificent, cavernous opening in one of the limestone cliffs. Here you can wander around, and listen to the thousands of bats above you squeaking in the darkness. From here, you will take a relaxing two-hour boat ride and kayak journey back to Mr Linh's Homestay where you will stay the night.