Day 1: Dong Hoi - Phong Nha - Ke Bang National Park (L, D)
Transfer from Dong Hoi to Chay Lap village, which is outside the Phong Nha-Ke Bang National park, the drive is about 45minutes. After arriving at the village, you will be welcomed by the local family at the local house. Your stay for two nights is in a traditional, yet comfortable house built intricately using the local available resources. You will be pleased to have the local home-stay experience in a comfort. You will be participating in different activities during the day like, dragon boat tour into the Phong Nha Cave. And after return to the village to explore local life style, you will have an opportunity to participate in social activities such as fishing in the pond, planting and gardening, or even playing football with the locals in the afternoon. After the day of excitement and fun, you will be served with a well cooked fresh food grown locally for dinner.
Activity: Dragon boat tour (2 to 3hours).
Day 2: Phong Nha - Ke Bang National Park (B, L, D)
After enjoying breakfast at the home-stay, you will venture out to the outdoors in the nature. You will bike around to this outlying area and visit memorial site of Tam Co Cave along the road following the historic Ho Chi Minh Trail. Following this, further biking will take you to the “Nuoc Mooc Cold spring”. Leaving the bikes, your guide will take you for a short hike and eventually arriving at the fresh spring for a swim. A picnic lunch will be organized to enjoy out with the out-door activities. Return to homes-stay in the afternoon. You will have time to relax, read books or simply go for a walk around the village. In the evening you can help the family to prepare the food in the kitchen or watch them how to cook Vietnamese food.
Activity: Biking 2 to 3hrs (flexible, depending on client’s fitness)/ hiking: 30min.
Day 3: Phong Nha - Ke Bang National Park - Dong Hoi (B, L)
After break-fast in the morning, you take a kayak and paddle along the clear blue “Chay River” that cuts a ravine through the jungle. Paddle into the mouth of Dark Cave to peer into its shadowy inner caverns. Enjoy the last lunch at the home-stay and bid farewell to the family. You will be transferred to Dong Hoi town in the afternoon for a night stay at comfortable Sun spa. Spend rest of the afternoon by the beach.
Activity: Kayaking 1hour. |
