Puluong Travel Guide

Private Pu Luong 3 days & 2 nights Package

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Day 1: Hanoi – Mai Chau – Trek to the Pu Luong nature reserve (140 km & 5-hour walk)

We will depart from Hanoi at 07:00 am and head to Mai Chau. After two hours up into the mountain, we will arrive at Mai Chau and start our Mai Chau Trek to Pu Luong nature reserve.

Starting at Ton village in Nam Son Commune, we will start to trek down the forest. The climax of this trek is experiencing the beauty of Pu Luong’s Nature Reserve, the everyday life, and culture of the White Thai people.

We will stop for a while and have a picnic lunch in the forest and after fully rested continue down the route down to Hin village. The host family welcomes us and this provides another free time to take a rest, have a shower then a traditional dinner and pass over the night.

Day 2: Pu Luong Trek. We trek to Nua and Kho Muong villages (4.5 to 5 hours walk).

After breakfast, we look forward to a more challenging full day of hiking. About 4 km to the Nua village, there is a cool stream for you to rest and relieve yourself from the heat of the day before embarking on an exciting trekking exercise with more challenges. As we go further, the trekking becomes more remote yet one is always likely to find a villager tending fields, passing through the steep limestone mountain or the rain forest inside the Pu Luong Nature Reserve to the village. After a rough trek, we will have a picnic lunch at Pon village.

We will advance, and encounter some steep areas, cross more streams then arrive in Kho Muong village where we will spend our second night in a typical Thai eco – stilt house (set up by FFI – Flora and Fauna Internationa).

This gives us ample time to relax, shower and enjoy dinner. (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner).

Day 3: Kho Muong to Mai Chau.

We get up and observe or even take part in the host family activities in the morning because they are early risers. We take an opportunity to stroll around the village before having a Thai style breakfast.

After fully rested and packed, we walk further to the main road. At this point, our driver will drive us up back to Mai Chau for lunch then we take some free time for walking around the village, shopping Thai handicrafts and finally return back to Hanoi.

What to bring: Passport, towels, swimsuits, toiletries, change of clothes, sunblock, sunglasses, hat, insect repellent, flashlights, small notes for buying drinks.

The best time for this trekking exercise is between “September to April”