Mai Chau Lodge

Hoa Binh, Vietnam

Activities

  • Feel the cool creepiness of the hotel’s private bat cave, located just across the street. Groups can arrange meetings or yoga classes in its well-lit subterranean depths

  • Take one or more of the hotel’s excellent guided tours to visit the local Thái hill-tribe communities in villages of Pom Coong and Lac, and to Mo Luong (Soldier) Cave

  • Set off on your own through the rice fields to visit the minutes-away White Thai village, where you can shop for fabrics, paintings and other souvenirs

  • Go 2-wheeling by borrowing the hotel’s bikes and striking out through the green, green countryside

  • Splash around on the pond in the hotel’s kayaks

  • Go fishing at Mo Luong Lake, next to the lodge

  • Or sailing at Da reservoir, the country's largest man-made lake 30km away

  • There are about 5 natural reserves within 50km. Currently tours can only be organised to Pu Luong natural reserve for bird and wildlife sightings

  • Visit the Black Hmong market on Sunday mornings with one of the hotel’s guides for a true National Geographic experience

  • Soothe tired muscles in the Roman-style indoor Jacuzzi, sauna, or steam room

  • Lounge around the pool - the only one for miles in any direction!

  • Get your tripod ready to catch shots of the whirling tribal dances that happen during dinner on many nights

Activities on site or nearby include:

  • Bird watching
  • Boat trips
  • Cycling
  • Cooking classes
  • Fishing
  • Hiking
  • Kayak/canoeing
  • Plantlife/flora
  • Private guided tours
  • Sailing
  • Shopping/markets
  • Swimming
  • Traditional cultures
  • Wildlife viewing
  • Yoga
Save to favouritesPrintMailMai Chau LodgeMost visitors to Hanoi spend a day or 2 dodging the motorbikes and commercial mayhem in the city’s old quarter before heading out on one of 2 sidetrips - east to Halong Bay or west to Sapa. But thanks to the Mai Chau Lodge, located just a 4-hour drive south of the city, visitors now have an equally memorable, less-touristy option. The lodge lies like a raft of civility in a sea of rice paddies on a mountain-hemmed valley floor. Immaculately maintained, it has 16[r:VN013:rooms] and all modern conveniences - including a lovely pool, air-conditioning and flatscreen TVs. Yet a 5-minute walk down the rural road next to the lodge brings you to a White Thai village. Here, people live in stilt houses, graze their water buffaloes in the rice fields, and weave beautiful fabrics on simple looms. Near-nightly cultural dances, well-designed tours led by charming and informative guides, and plentiful offerings at mealtimes round out the offerings at this unique lodge, which brings you up-close with some of Vietnam’s earliest and most colourful inhabitants.

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