Explore North-West Vietnam | Hanoi - Mai Chau - Moc Chau - Dien Bien Phu 5D4N| Code: IBNW501

Day 1: Hanoi – Mai Chau - Moc Chau (-L/D)

Our guide and driver will pick you up at Noi Bai airport. Then we will take a 4 hour drive heading southwest of Ha Noi to Mai Chau. The amazing drive through a spectacular mountain range. This is an authentic hill tribe region and a fantastic bases for treks and homestay soft adventures. This typical houses you see here are house on stilt with elevated 10-12 feet of the ground. Because to avoid water damage ad shelter animals from the elements.

Have lunch at local family.

You will explore the surrounding villages on foot, meet the local people and learn about their lives raising crops and livestock. En route you will stop to visit Mai Chau market, it’s a great chance to take plenty of great photos of the spectacular mountains and green valley.

Then we will depart Mai Chau and embark on a 2-hour drive toward Moc Chau Highland, located at Son La province, approoximately 180 km North West from Ha Noi. Dinner at local restaurant. Overnight in Moc Chau.

Day 2: Moc Chau - Dien Bien Phu (B/L/D)

Breakfast at hotel or homestay. Moc Chau Plateau blessed with a wide variety of nature beauty, gifted with boundless meadow for an unlimited source of fresh milk. We will visit some places:

• Heart-shaped Tea Hill – Doi Che Trai Tim: Tan Lap commune is famous for the most beautiful tea hills in Moc Chau. These green tea hills are likely unlike anything you have seen before. The most beautiful tea hill in Tan Lap is Doi Che Trai Tim, also known as Doi Che Moc Suong. Many couples choose this place to take their wedding photos and record their happiest moments. Besides tea hills, there are plum blossoms and yellow mustard flower gardens in the commune. 
• Ban Ang village is home to the Thai people who live mainly on farming, livestock breeding, and handicraft. In Ban Ang village, you will have the opportunity to experience daily life with the villagers such as staying in the stilt houses, picking the tea on the hill, fishing in the stream, and eating local dishes. 
• Ban Ang Pine Forest is located in Dong Sang commune, Moc Chau district, Son La province. From Moc Chau town, follow Highway 43 for two kilometers to get there. Ban Ang has a natural lake with an area of five hectares surrounded by green pine forests planted on reddish brown ferralsol hills. In the distance, the scenery of Moc Chau plateau with the tea hills and colorful flowers is romantic and stunning.

After enjoy lunch continue to visit

• Dai Yem Waterfall: Located in Muong Sang commune, Moc Chau district, Dai Yem Waterfall is the most beautiful from April to September. A big amount of water pours into the waterfall in the rainy season, making the scenery majestic and poetic with the white color of frothing water. The waterfall consists of two parts. The upper waterfall is 70 meters wide and there is a distance of 270 meters between the upper and lower waterfall. The vegetation on the top of the waterfall is rich and beautiful. 

Then we continue our wonderful jouney to Dien Bien. You drive over the “ Zigzag Pha Din pass”. It’s one of the most beautiful passes in Vietnam before reach Dien Bien Phu, the former battlefields where the French, afte nearly 100 years of colonization and nine years of war, were defeated in 1954 by Viet Minh, lead by Ho Chi Minh president. Check in hotel, dinner and overnight in Dien Bien.

Day 3: Dien Bien Phu sightseeing (B/L/D)

After breakfast we head out for a guided tour of the historical relics. Where we will visit the underground hideout of French General De Castries, Muong Thanh historical bridge and Nam Rom River. Stop to take some photos at Dien Bien Phu victory monument, A1 cemetery and A1 Hill Battlefield.

After lunch we continue to tour of the historical relics of Dien Bien Phu including the campaign headquarter of Vietnam soldiers, tunnel of Chief Hoang Van Thai, working tunnel and shack of General Vo Nguyen Giap, and areas in Muong Phang where Vietnamese army stationed and also the Dien Bien Museum.

Free to do some fun shopping at Muong Thanh market. Dinner and overnight at Dien Bien.

Day 4: Dien Bien Phu - Ha Noi (B/L/D)

After breakfast at the hote. This morning you leave Dien Bien Phu for return Ha Noi city. Lunch on the way. Spend almost 10 hours on car for back Ha Noi city ( Optional: you can take flight back Ha Noi with additional charge for airticket).

Have dinner at local restaurant and overnight in hotel in Hanoi.

Day 5: Ha Noi city tour - Ha Noi Departure (B/L/-)

Breakfast at the hotel. Enjoy sightseeing tours to visit the city's landmarks such as:

• Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum in Ba Dinh square is one of the most visited attractions in Hanoi. It is the final resting place of Ho Chi Minh, the most iconic and popular leader of Vietnam, known to his people as “Uncle Ho”.
• Presidential Palace was built between 1900 and 1906 to house the French Governor –General of Indochina
• Ho Chi Minh's house on stilts: with simple design with peaceful and fresh air at this place, visitors can know more about the greatness and simplicity of the man who lived there
• One Pillar Pagoda is said to represent a lotus flower growing up out of the water. Built between the years of 1028 and 1054 during the reign of Emperor Ly Thai Tong of the Ly Dynasty.
• Temple of Literature: Originally built as a university in 1070 dedicated to Confucius, scholars and sages, the building is extremely well preserved and is a superb example of traditional-style Vietnamese architecture.

After lunch free for shopping at Hanoi Old Quarters till transferring to the airport to take a flight back home. Tour End!