Located in a beautiful upland valley, travel to Mai Chau a place that is a mosaic of rice fields, bamboo groves, and scattered settlements of the White Tai people.

It is the Tai who give this valley its unique atmosphere, with their picturesque villages of bamboo and timber houses raised on stilts. Tai women are skilled weavers, with looms in use below most of the houses and Tai weavings making a fine momento of a visit to this area.

Stay with one of our best Vietnam travel deals in a Tai family house for a night of traditional hospitality and warmth. After dinner, we may have the opportunity to see some Tai dancing – or perhaps just bed down in the communal house before an early rise for a walk around the valley.

Tour to Mai Chau take you to a place that is a heart of a beautiful valley that is a world away from the hustle and bustle of Hanoi. The modern village is an unappealing sprawl, but as you emerge on the rice fields and rural living it is transformed into a real paradise. It’s a stunning area, and most people here are ethnic White Thai, distantly related to tribes in Thailand, Laos and China.

Many travelers are asking whether travel to Sapa or Mai Chau? Although most locals no longer wear trad­itional dress, the Thai women are masterful weavers who ensure that there is plenty of traditional-style clothing to buy in the village centre. You will see women weaving on looms under or inside their houses in the village. Much of the silk looks similar to that seen in Laos. The Thai tribes of Mai Chau are less likely to employ strong-arm sales tactics than their H’mong counterparts in Sapa: polite bargaining is the norm rather than endless haggling.

Mai Chau is 135km from Hanoi and just 5km south of Tong Dau junction on Hwy 6. There’s always direct public transport from My Dinh bus station in Hanoi to Mai Chau; however, buses to nearby Hoa Binh are also plentiful. From Hoa Binh there are several scheduled buses to Mai Chau for two hours.