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Vietnam offers a wide selection of outdoor activities for those who look for active adventure holidays in Vietnam. The most popular outdoor activity is to trek through hill tribe villages, meeting up with local friendly people.
Adventure activity is not only to trek from day to day, but to experience landscapes, local culture and traditions during the journey. Trekking tours should be booked in advance since there are lots of things to be prepared before your departure. Most of the treks are required permits since the trails go to remote hill tribe villages. The authorization can be arranged through a local tour operator.
For any adventure tours, trekking, hiking a local tour guide and porters should be booked. They live in the area, so they know the local culture, they know the trails.
Easy treks are usually arranged in half day and one day. The short treks can be done by both families and children. Longer treks seems to be more adventure. This is to trek for more than two days with overnight in local hill tribe villages. The conditions is simple.
A good trek is the one suitable for everyone taking part of the tour. The trek should not be to tiring, especially during bad weather.
There is a wide range of trekking tours can be arranged in Mai chau area ranging from a half day easy walking tour to multi-day challenging trek. It takes only three hours drive to travel from Hanoi to Mai Chau.
If departing Hanoi in the morning, visitor will arrive Mai Chau valley around noon. It will be possible for them to have lunch in a local stilt house before beginning a trek. They can trek just for some hours before returning back to Hanoi or they can hike for many days.
Pu Luong nature reserve is just one hour drive from Mai Chau. Trekking in North Vietnam can’t be complete without a trek to Pu Luong. The trek can be arranged in two days, three days or four days. You can try easy trek that go through Thai hamlets. These hamlets are situated on the foot of the mountains. The treks do not require much of skills and power.
Trekking in North Vietnam usually requires a local adventure tour guide and a local porter. The trek used to go through local hill tribe villages, hamlets. So a local guide is highly recommended. The local guide comes from the area. He (or she) know the local customs and traditions very well. He (or she) is able to explain you the culture and traditions making your trip richer in knowledge.
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