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Mai Chau Travel Experience – All frequency from A-Z can not be ignored

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What is so beautiful about Mai Chau, what is so attractive that it is so attractive? What should Mai Chau travel experience pocket? Refer to Migo's article below to schedule a memorable Mai Chau trip.

Possessing poetic beauty, fresh and cool air, diverse culture bearing the imprint of ethnic people and typical culinary dishes, Mai Chau Hoa Binh valley is one of the interesting destinations, attracting a large number of domestic and foreign tourists.


Overview


Mai Chau is located in the northwest of Hoa Binh, bordering Moc Chau (Son La) and Quan Hoa (Thanh Hoa). Therefore, you completely make a trip to Mai Chau 2 days 1 night and incorporate into your Moc Chau trip. 


Mai Chau's name was formerly Muong Mai formed around the 13th century. This place is home to muong people, Thai.Possessing a cool and fresh mountainous climate, especially the unique indigenous culture, clear natural beauty, peace, Mai Chau tourism It is definitely a must-see destination for tourists.


Weather


Located at an altitude of 800-1000m above sea level, Mai Chau climate is cool with an average temperature in summer of only about 27.5 degrees Celsius, at night the temperature drops to 24 degrees. The winter temperature is about 16 degrees Celsius, cold enough for people to crave fists, hot grilled corn or fragrant smoked forest meat. But it is not too cold to cut out the meat that makes the legs afraid to step outside.


It can be said that this is the perfect climate for year-round vacations. 




Mai Chau possesses a cool climate in summer and not too cold in winter, perfect for year-round vacations. Photo: VnExpress


In particular, it is divided into two distinct seasons: the rainy season (which lasts from May to October) and the dry season (November to April of the following year).


Therefore, the most beautiful time of the year to come to Mai Chau is from November to April every year. If November and December is the season of white cabbage in full bloom, then January to March every year is the season of plum blossoms blooming white forest, also the season of cherry blossoms blooming brilliantly. Mai Chau weather at this time begins to turn from spring to summer cool and pleasant. 


Another time that is also extremely interesting to travel to Mai Chau is the time of July to August, the perfect time for you to go to avoid the heat. Early morning fog or a cool summer afternoon, just a bicycle, leisurely cycling through the fragrant rice fields, or taking a cool spring bath in the village, will surely be unforgettable experiences.


September to November in Mai Chau is also a beautiful time for you to visit Mai Chau. That's when the whole Mai Chau valley was covered with a golden color of ripe rice fields. Open the window every morning, you will see the aroma of the field and the yellow color like the honey of golden rice. The air is fresh and cool, favorable for teambuilding or collective activities. 




Mai Chau spring day is brilliant with plum blossoms, Mai Chau summer is cool with rice fields and cool springs, autumn is bright yellow, and winter is white with apricot flowers.


Transportation 


Move to Mai Chau


Mai Chau is about 140km from Hanoi. To travel to Mai Chau, you can use a personal vehicle to take the Hoa Lac route to Hoa Binh or travel by public transport. 


For those who are passionate about the journey to explore the roads, moving to Mai Chau will be a trip experienced by the beautiful road, especially in the days of favorable weather will be extremely interesting.


If you want to travel by public transport, from Hanoi there are many convenient buses for visitors. mai chau travel At any time of the year.


  • HOANG THAO Bus

Schedule: My Dinh – Mai Chau

Departure time: My Dinh 14h30 Mai Chau 8h45

Phone: 0914 688533 – 0218 386829

  • HA LOAN Bus

Schedule: My Dinh – Mai Chau

Departure time: My Dinh 7h50 Mai Chau 13h30

Phone: 0912490679

  • GOLDEN BUS

Process: Hoa Binh – Mai Chau

Departure time:

Phone: 0975 996706


Moving in Mai Chau


Walking around the village is one of the fastest and funst ways to explore the beautiful and peaceful Mai Chau in a slow and leisurely way. 


If you want to walk further, go to the fields and let your soul fly on the rice mats, enjoy the fresh air, you can choose bicycles as a means of transportation. 


In addition, in recent years, in Mai Chau, there has been an investment in trams to serve tourists walking and exploring the village. 


Finally, motorbikes are a great choice if you want from Mai Chau to explore further tourist destinations such as Thung Khe Pass (White Rock Pass), Ba Khan ...




Cycling to explore the village and the fragrant rice fields is one of the interesting experiences when Mai Chau tourism. Photo by MaiChauEcolodge


Mai Chau tourist attractions


Thung Khe Pass


Thung Khe Pass (also known as White Rock Pass) is located on National Highway 6, on the road from Hoa Binh city to Mai Chau.


Arrive in Thung Khe early in the morning with clear sky, when it is clear when the sun is high, the afternoon is sunny and the fog spreads the way when the afternoon is down. Each time of the day, Thung Khe Pass welcomes guests with different beauty. Not as majestic as O Quy Ho, not climbing back to the sky like Ma Pì Lèng but Thung Khe is also famous as one of the beautiful passes and contains many dangers that challenge any steering wheel. 




Thung Khe Pass is not steep, not only the sleeve bends burn the brakes but dangerous because there are always trucks going downstream every day. Photo: dantri.com.vn


Mai Chau flagpole


Through the Thung Khe pass, when stepping down to The Tong Dau junction to enter Mai Chau Center, there is a stop that visitors definitely cannot miss, which is the Mai Chau flagpole. 


As an airy empty spot, at Mai Chau flagpole, you can zoom in to see the entire scenery of Mai Chau poetic before going into the valley to explore.




Mai Chau flagpole is a stopover on the journey Mai Chau tourism Where you can see the whole town. Photo: digiticket.vn


Lác Mai Chau Village


As one of the famous community tourist destinations in Mai Chau, Lác Hoa Binh village is not busy, not as busy as many other tourist villages. Coming to this place, visitors will experience the quiet, relaxing life of the stilt houses by the stream, calm as this village over 700 years old exists over time. This is a long-standing house of white Thai people with 5 thai families living here for a long time: Ha, Lo, Because, Marx, Loc. In the past, the indigenous people lived mainly melons into the cultivation of rice, brocade weaving. Nowadays, this place develops into a community tourist destination, where visitors can both relax, enjoy the natural beauty, explore traditional activities, enjoy the typical cuisine of this land, and organize exercise activities such as cozy teambulding. 




Ban Lác is a popular community tourist destination in the journey Mai Chau tourism. Photo by maichaubanlac


Mai Chau Poom Cong


The name Pom Cong means the village of the hills located on a large drum, implying only the field. Along with The Lác village, Pom Cong has long been known as a tourist culture village, an attractive destination. 


Here, thai stilt houses are peacefully located by the green rice fields. Coming to the village, visitors not only experience the nights sleeping by the floor to hear the dew and crickets echoing from distant rice fields, opening the door to welcome the early sun through the stilt door frame, exploring traditional brocade weaving, enjoying blue rice from the specialty Mai Chau sticky or the cup of wine to get drunk.




The Poom Co. Photo: vietnamtourism.gov.vn


Van Mai Chau Text


Located 1km from mai chau town center, Ban Van at the foot of Pu Van mountain is the home of ethnic Thai people. In recent years, the text has been a destination. Mai Chau tourism attract guests. Thai people in The Text mainly live by rice cultivation, brocade weaving, knitting, breeding ... 


As a tourist village, The Text still retains many wild, simple features from the landscape to the rustic lifestyle of the indigenous people.

In particular, until the Text at the beginning of the New Year, visitors can also participate in folk games such as "odd dress", tug of war, "keng loong", throwing, shooting crossbows ...

 

Afternoon Cave


Cave Afternoon is located in the southwest of Mai Chau town. The cave has a length of more than 150m, the cave door is about 10-15m wide, more than 30m long to the top of the mountain. The door of the cave is surrounded by the majestic Serpent tree, from the cave overlooked down, visitors can cover the whole rich town of Mai Chau. 


The cave is wide, airy, at the end of the cave is a small cool stream with great magical stalactites. Coming to The Afternoon Cave in the summer, visitors will be immersed in the fresh, cool space, combining shimmering stalactites to create a scene like a fairyland. 




Checkin at The Afternoon Cave. Photo: digiticket.vn


Go Lao Falls


Go Lao Falls (also known as Go Mu Falls) in Phuc Hotel commune, about 15km from Mai Chau town center, is one of the attractions when Mai Chau tourism.


Go Lao Falls is about 20m high. If you visit in the rainy season, you will see the water pouring white foam like a strip of white silk across the mountains and forests. You can travel by motorbike near the parking spot and then walk to get to the foot of the falls. 

From a distance, I heard the sound of water blaring in the middle of the mountains and forests.


Not only attracted by the majestic and magnificent scenery, the road to explore the waterfall is also extremely poetic, when it is a straight forest with a color, when it is Ba Khan Lake far from poetic, when it is a glimpse of the beautiful small houses of muong people at the foot of the mountain.




Go Lao Waterfall with unspoiled beauty has almost no human impact. Photo: VnExpress


Ba Khan – Ha Long on land 


Dubbed the "Ha Long on land", Ba Khan is definitely a destination not to be missed for any believer who "moves" when Mai Chau tourism. 


Located right on the shore of Hoa Binh hydroelectric lake, from the Thung Khe Pass, the view towards the rear plain, Ba Khan appears poetic and peaceful.


Where the ancient peaks are now deep under the lake, it creates spectacular landscapes. 


Coming here, you can turn into the New Village, stay a night at homestay near the lake, then early the next morning rent a kayak or a small boat to explore the lake bed and record beautiful photos.




Ba Khan tourism is being chosen by many tourists. Photo: truyenhinhdulich.vn


Kia Cave – Pu Co


Kia Cave opens the Moc Chau plateau, with a cool climate, no need to wait for spring to call white plum blossoms, Kia Cave is a beautiful cloud hunting destination no less than Ta Ruffa or YÝ. 


Kia Pà Stor Cave has been a tourist attraction in recent years. Located between four rocky mountains with clouds all year round, Kia Cave not only possesses lyrical poetic scenery such as fairy tales, but also contains many unique cultural features of H'Mong people.




Kia Cave – Pu Co is one of the beautiful cloud hunting spots no less than Ta Ruffa or Sapa. Photo: VnExpress


Delicious food when traveling to Mai Chau


Coming to Mai Chau, besides the pleasing climate, beautiful nature, cuisine will surely make anyone who has ever been here unforgettable.


Sticky raspberries


The cuisine in Mai Chau is the most famous must be mentioned sticky sticky, the sticky sticky thing that has famously clings to visitors " Mai Chau season I smell sticky". The sticky dish in Thai is called "the better" - meaning fragrant plastic rice. 


The sticky rice is a type of sticky sticky stick that is softly soaked and then stuffed in the wooden muzzle, when the raspberries wake up the aroma, take out the next item until the raspberries are ripe, the sticky seeds bloom tightly stretched into round and fragrant raspberries. Squeeze the raspberries in round hands, the raspberries blend together, flexible but not sticky hands. Anyone who has ever been to Mai Chau once, it is certainly impossible not to buy this type of lady as a gift for relatives and family. 




It's a dish that can't be missed when Mai Chau tourism. Photo by mustgo.vn


Blue rice


Besides sticky rice, the main dish can not be missed is the blue rice cooked from Mai Chau sticky, cooked in bamboo tubes and baked on a pink fire. Besides the fragrant, flexible and soft sweet sticky, sometimes there is also coconut water, sesame mixed with rice.  


In particular, bamboo for making blue rice also known as "Pá snoring" tree is a small, straight tree, inside there is a thin layer of white bamboo paper like silk. Mai Chau blue rice peeled off only heard the aroma creeping from the smell.


Grilled chicken


In addition to dots with sesame salt, blue rice is also extremely attractive when enjoying with grilled chicken. The "walking" chickens are raised with firm meat, light chewy meat and rich sweetness. The chicken is marinated with typical Thai spices, sandwiched in a blister and grilled on embers. 


Grilled spring fish


Besides grilled chicken, another speciality not to be missed in Mai Chau is grilled spring fish. This is an indispensable dish in traditional Thai festivals. The standard stream fish are healthy fish, weighing from 400-600grams. Thais marinate fish with nutmeg, forest herbs, lotus seeds, basil, lemongrass, spices and then clamp to fresh bamboo sticks and bake on hot ash. By the time the outer shell turns yellow and wakes up to the aroma, the grilled spring fish is removed to enjoy with the three-color raspberries and dotted with diagonal carnation, there is no more attractive taste. 


Pig má


Coming to Mai Chau, in addition to boiled pork, surely visitors can not ignore muong pork. After the skin has been golden, people choose the best meat sliced and marinated with many different spices such as salt, chilli, anise, stalks, lemongrass, honey hook leaves, ginger, turmeric, vinegar ... When the marinated meat has soaked, it is skewered and grilled until golden, wake up the aroma.




Grilled pork with a cup of wine needs to be a delicacy that anyone has ever enjoyed Mai Chau tourism They all remember. Photo by Maichauvilla


Other specialties


In addition to the above specialties, when coming to Mai Chau, there are many other specialties such as cat vegetables, buffalo meat in the kitchen, roasted wild bee pupae, sour bamboo shoots, Mai Ha wine, sour marinated meat, sour marinated spring fish, garlic fried cicada, buoy leaf juice, synthetic raspberries ...


Accommodations in Mai Chau


In Mai Chau, guests can stay at budget homestays or bungalows and resorts depending on their needs.


Mai Chau Homestay 


VisitIng Mai Chau, one of the main getaways is to spend the night at traditional Thai stilt houses. 


This is a common form of stay in tourist villages such as Lác or Poom Cong. Thai stilt houses are built high, less than 2m from the ground, large indoor windows catch the wind to create a sense of airy and cleanliness.


This form of sleep is especially suitable for guests traveling in groups. When sleeping on the floor, you will be given full blankets, curtains, pillows, separate cushions for each person and the back chooses the right position to sleep.


Here Migo would like to tell you some highly appreciated homestay tips in Mai Chau:

  • HOMESTAY Little Mai Chau Homestay – Na Phòn commune - Phone: 097 384 90 06
  • HOMESTAY Eco Homestay - Ban Lác - Phone: 096 262 71 32
  • HOMESTAY Mai Chau Countryside Homestay - Pom Cong village - Phone: 034 423 5140
  • HOMESTAY La Maison De Buoc - Ban Step, Khòe Tattoo Commune - Phone: 097 327 13 54


Hotels and Resorts


If you go few people, want to enjoy a secluded, private and quiet space, resort ha bungalow or hotel will be the right choice. 


Some resorts receive a lot of appreciation such as 

  • RESORT Mai Chau Villas - Mai Huong - Phone: 0218 3867 868
  • Mai Chau Sunset Boutique - Mai Chau Town - Phone: 096 282 62 33
  • Mai Chau Ecolodge RESORT - Mai Chau Town - Phone: 024 32216726
  • Mai Chau HideAway Resort - Tan Mai, Mai Chau. 
  • Mai Chau Ecolodge - Na Thia neighborhood, Na Phòn commune, 
  • Mai Chau Mountain View Resort - Ban Lác 2, Chieu Chau


Note when traveling to Mai Chau


Besides, to have a complete trip, you should note the following points:

  • Monitor the weather before going to prepare the right outfit
  • If you go to Mai Chau on the weekend, it is best to book your room in advance to avoid running out of rooms.
  • It is recommended to bring umbrellas, hats, some essential drugs such as abdominal pain pills, cold medicines, antiseptics and medical bandages, painkillers.
  • If traveling by personal vehicle, it is recommended to move carefully because the route from Hanoi to Mai Chau is relatively many trucks and large vehicles moving.
  • It is recommended to ask the price before using food services along the way as well as buying Mai Chau specialties as gifts


Finale


Above, Migo has shared with you relatively fully about the experiences Mai Chau tourism. If you need any more advice about the schedule, place to play as well as mai chau tours suitable for couples, families or groups, do not be afraid to contact immediately for advice. 


Author: Jiang TH

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