Thai Tinh in Hanoi Vietnam

Hi there ! I'm also think Maichau will be the good place for you doing the december. Sapa and Hagiang also good no rain doing that time but will eb a bit cold.

This is a little information about Mai Chau Valley Vietnam.

Mai Chau is located in Hoa Binh province, approximately 135 km from Hanoi and 60 km from Hoa Binh. From the top of Cun Mountain, one can admire the superb panorama of Mai Chau surrounded by a green valley and stilt houses. Many minorities, including the Thai ethnic group, live in Mai Chau.

Stilt houses border both sides of the roads. The houses are quite large with palm leaf roofs and polished bamboo-slat floors. The kitchen is located in the center of the house; the cooking as well as the making of the colorful tho cam, the material used by Thai minority to make their clothes, takes place in the kitchen. The windows are large and decorated with patterns. Each house also has a pond to breed fish.

The Sunday market brings a lot of people into town. People from different minorities living in the mountains come to Mai Chau market to sell their specific products: honey, bananas, corn, and tho cam made by skilled Thai women. The Sunday market is also an occasion to enjoy traditional Thai dishes and to participate in traditional dances.

Mai Chau can be a base for some trekking tours to the villages around, this is with homestay overnight on the traditional houses of the H'Mong and the Thai. Worth a guided treking tour there.

Hoa Binh is a mountainous province located in the North. It is bordered by Son La in the West, Phu Tho and Ha Tay in the North, Ha Nam and Ninh Binh in the East, and Thanh Hoa in the South. The culture of Hoa Binh combines six minorities with their own languages, traditional literature, and festivals.

Tourists especially enjoy the minority specialty dishes including rice cooked in bamboo and grilled meat. They also enjoy watching traditional dancing, music performances (bronze, drums, gongs), and Thai minority singing and dancing. The remote minority villages are attractive sites for tourists.

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regards

When you are in Ha Noi just have a coffee with my friend Thai Tinh. He is working as a tour guide, speaks english quite good and knows a lot of not-so-well-known-places around Ha Noi. If you want to discover north vietnam on a motorbike, he is your man: thaitinhtravel@yahoo.com

Nice places around Ha Noi:
Ha Long Bay (I always took an organized bus trip to ha long and spend one night on a boat. Thai Tinh arranged some trip for 2 friends of mine last november. They stay on an top class empirial junk and paid just half the price of all the others on board)
Mai Chau (nice place in the west of Ha Noi, you could spend there 1 or 2 nights in a stilthouse)
Ba Be (about 250km north of Vietnam, big nice lake, not so many tourists, stay there for 2 nights)

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