Day 1: Hanoi - Mai Chau
8:00 Depart from your hotel to Maichau. Stop in Hoa Binh to see the Hydro Electric Central. Continue to Maichau, stop over on the way. 13:00 Arrive at Maichau.
PM: Short trekking to visit Thai village, BanVan & BanLac. Overnight at Pomcong village in Maichau.
Day 2: Mai Chau - Son La (B)
8:00 Depart to Sonla. Stop to visit small ethnic hamlets scattering along the way from Yen Chau, Moc Chau (Muong people). Lunch on the way.
14:00 Arrive Son La. Visit Old Prison of Sonla. Overnight in Sonla.
Day 3: Son La - Lai Chau (B)
Breakfast at hotel. Visit the hill-tribe hamlets including the Black Tay, Meo, Muong and White Tay. Van Long pass, Ban Nam Na and other villages in the surroundings. Then depart to Laichau. Short walk on the way. Stop to visit Thuan Chau Market on the way. Overnight at Laichau.
Day 4: Visit Lai Chau boat trip
Breakfast at hotel. 8:00 Full day boat trip along on the Da River and visit minorities villages at the river banks -  cruising through many verdant valley. 17:00 Return to hotel. Overnight at hotel in Laichau.
Day 5: Lai Chau - Sinho - Paso (B)
7:30 Drive Lai Chau to SinHo. Sightseeing stops on the way for breathtaking scenery.
PM: 16h00 arrive BaSo town. Overnight at hotel in Laichau.
Day 6: Paso - Sapa (B)
8:00 Depart to Sapa. Strolling through the colorful market at Tam Duong early in the morning where you will meet many different ethnic minority communities. After the market, you will head out on another one of Northern Vietnam's most spectacular roads on the way to Sapa. Arriver in the old French colonial hill station of Sapa late in the afternoon. Free time after check-in until dinner at a local restaurant. Overnight at the hotel.
Day 7: Sapa - Laochai - Tavan (4 hours trekking, 12 km, 3 villages ) - (B)
Breakfast and relax. Walk around Sapa and then start from Sapa at 12:00 by jeep to visit a village of the Black H'mong (Lao Chai San). Go though hillsides along Muong Hoa river. Cross the river by a suspension bridge to reach Lao Chai village. Take the paths across the paddy fields to get to the 3^rd village of the Dzay minority (Ta Van) and stay the night at a Dzay family in this village. Picnic lunch on the way and dinner at the family.
Day 8: Ta Van - Ban Ho (7 hours trekking, 18 km, 3 villages) - (B)
Breakfast with the local family and then get to a village located at the foot of Hoang Lien Son range via bamboo forests. Visit a waterfall and a rattan bridge. After the village, get down to the river, cross it and keep going to SuPan village for 2 minorities - The H'mong and the Red Dzao. Get off the road to go down hill to Ban Ho village. Overnight at Ban Ho with a Tay family who have houses on stilts. Return and overnight at hotel in Sapa.
Day 9: Sapa - Bac Ha (B)
Depart at 6:00a.m. for Bacha. Stop on the way for sightseeing. visit ethnic hamlets and take photographs. You will have time to visit the houses on stilt of H'Mong, Dzao, minorities in Bacha. Overnight in Bacha.
Day 10: Bac Ha - Hanoi (B)
7:00 Return to Hanoi. More stop on the way. Lunch at Pho Rang town. 17:00 Arrive Hanoi.

As indicated: (A/C= Air-conditioning, O/N= Overnight, B=Breakfast, L=Lunch, D=Dinner)