06 Oct 2019
In general we liked the tour and had a nice stay in Pu Luong.
Organization:
- You start the tour in Hanoi with people from different groups. All the groups split up in Mai Chau.
- Itinerary was changed spontaneously and we did the cave tour on our first day and bamboo rafting on our last day, because 2 other persons at the hotel wanted to do the cave tour at that day, so they put us together. It was fine, but would have been great to get informed about it. We also needed to tell our guide which tour we booked and what is included. Definitely seemed totally unorganized.
- We did everything, which was in the description.
- On the second day we had a new tourguide, which would have been great to be informed about this as well. Our tourguide, who went with us to the cave the first day even said that we will meet him at 8 the next day. Both tourguides were super friendly, so it was not a big deal.
- Every day Huy from Local Tours wrote me and asked how our day went, which was nice.
Tourguides:
- Very friendly.
- English was good, but needs to get improved. We sometimes needed to use Google Translator.
- In general both tourguides did a good job, told us some details about PuLuong and tried to reply to all our questions.
Food and Eco Garden:
- Food was delicious and more than enough.
- Price for drinks were good. Fresh juice 50k, beer 30k.
- Eco Garden is beautiful. Especially the pool area is really nice and you can relax there.
Pu Luong:
Pu Luong offers a quiet beautiful landscape to relax and explore. Various ethnic cultures live here in the countryside and manage their rice fields and livestock, renew their roofs with banana leafs and their fences with bamboo and wood. It is interesting to observe the people in their everyday life and to walk through small valleys along countless rice and vegetable fields (corn, peanut etc.). Everthing slows down the time. In the evening you can see high hills and clouds gathering on the slopes. Sometimes you can hear and see an upcoming thunderstorm hours in advance from far away. In the morning the landscape presents itself in mystical fog. Pu Luong is definitely worth a visit.