A trip to Mai Chau region – the highlands of Vietnam is your chance to see patchwork quilts of tea plantations, green rice fields and waterfalls all dotted along the landscape and the charming natural beauty of jungle-clad limestone mountains. Mai Chau region is also home to many ethnic minorities, each of which has their own unique cultures and beliefs. Travel to Mai  Chau with:  Best Indochina tours

A serene, relaxing rural idyll with the vivid green paddy fields matching your picture postcard fantasies of the Vietnamese countryside, Mai Chau is an ideal respite from the craziness of Hanoi capital city. It is such a great way to meet one of the ethnic minority groups in a setting which is neither too inaccessibly off-the-beaten-path nor too touristy and crowded. And you will spend your lovely night in a bamboo stilt house really – a pretty unforgettable place.

Since there is a little tourist service in Mai Chau and surprisingly few of the locals speak enough English to offer any advice or services, booking a tour from Hanoi is your best bet if you want to make the most of the trekking opportunities in this area. North Vietnam tours

Trekking tours around Mai Chau

If you go to Mai Chau in these summer months, you will get these photogenic scenes of villagers working in the fields, harvesting, planting the rice or plowing; water buffalo as well as goats, chickens, ducks and pot-bellied pigs in abundance on the 4-kilometer circular walk around the valley floor. Meanwhile, it is several of the householders in Pom Coong and Lac villages that offer longer 5-15 kilometer guided trekking tours of various lengths to ethnic villages around the Mai Chau valley.

Clothes to pack for trekking trip in Mai Chau

Sportswear is the best choice to pack for a trekking trip in Mai Chau! Must-have items are comfortable shoes and tracksuits. Take sun-cream and hats if you are planning to travel during hot season in Mai Chau, when sunshine may be very strong! It is good to wear a jacket or sometimes even gloves, scarf or cap during winter months. All over the year, especially if you are planning to spend a lot of time outdoors, sunglasses are useful.

Things to buy in Mai Chau

The ethnic villages themselves are the best places to buy ethnic arts and crafts in Mai Chau. Since in recent years, the sale of woven goods in Hoa Binh has become an important source of income of Mai Chau’s local people and it is hard to resist the engagingly persistent sales pitch of so many attractive fabrics on offer. Another thing to buy is Mai Chau is the rice wine, which is excellent, especially when being pre-mixed with local honey. What should set you back? It is a large plastic bottle of the local brew.

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