Your local guide will meet you at the homestay to help you prepare for your night in the jungle. The first couple of hours of trekking are simple and easy. You will leave behind the small village where and walk through lush green and yellow rice fields, across various rivers, and head further into Ba Be National Park stopping along the way to greet the local people with a friendly “Xin Chao” (hello).
After a couple of hours, you will snake off the gentle, flat route and begin trekking up a steep hill, covered in wet moss and vegetation. Whilst this isn’t difficult, it does provide a bit more of a challenge, and you would require a basic level of fitness to scale it. After about an hour you will reach the top, have a little rest and then begin our trek up and down the various hills a small schoolhouse where you will stop for lunch.
From the schoolhouse base to our stop for the evening is a further 2-3 hour trek, and this part provides some of the most breathtaking views of the trek. You will take a short but tricky route deeper into the jungle before reaching the site where you will spend the night. You can set up camp and relax with a tasty bbq and some infamous happy water.

Highlights and activities: Ba Be National Park, a 18 - 20 km trek
Accommodation: Camping
Meals: Breakfast, lunch, dinner

After an exciting and truly unforgettable night in the jungle, you will awake to the sounds of nature all around you. After a delicious al fresco breakfast, you will trek through the jungle for around three hours before reaching Ba Be Lake where a motorboat will be waiting to take you to a waterfall. You will stop along the river for lunch at a local restaurant.
After a delicious lunch, you can hop back aboard the boat where you can sit back and enjoy the journey. You will head down the river, gliding past the locals washing their clothes in the river, water buffalos cooling down in the heat and all of the other interesting things that happen on the rivers of Vietnam. After an hour, you will arrive at Puong Cave, a magnificent, cavernous opening in one of the limestone cliffs. Here you can wander around, and listen to the thousands of bats above you squeaking in the darkness. From here, you will take a relaxing two-hour boat ride and kayak journey back to Mr Linh's Homestay where you will stay the night.

Highlights and activities: Ba Be Lake, Boat trip, Puong Cave, a 7 - 10 km trek
Accommodation: Mr Linh's Homestay
Meals: Breakfast, lunch, dinner

Today, you will visit some beautiful rural villages along the riverbank before a short hike to the best vantage point in the park. You will then begin your journey back to Hanoi by car stopping at Hua Ma Cave on the way. Hua Ma is one of the biggest dry cave in the north of Vietnam and features a stunning display of rock formations. You will then go through the paddies to visit Silk Waterfall and a wonderful pass called "Dog Flower Pass'. After lunch in a local restaurant, you will complete your journey back to Hanoi, arriving at around 17:00.

Highlights and activities: Hua Ma cave, Dog Flower Pass, a 2 - 4 km trek
Accommodation: Not included
Meals: Breakfast, lunch