Wildlife Jungle Camp & Village Homestay 3 Days trek in Nam Ha NPA

Trip overview
This is unique both experience of nature and culture experience through the untouched of jungle and village community in Nam Ha NPA with expert forest tour guides, who will teach us about indigenous people lifestyle used by local’s hunter in round three days in the dense forest, sleep at the banana leaf camp, do fishing and frog hunting. The wildlife jungle camp and village homestay will bring us up to walk deeper into Nam Ha NPA, always learning about medicinal plants and animal habits, cooking species collected on the way without modern utensils at the campsite and setting traditional hunter self-mad tent.

Itinerary
Day 1: Nam Ha Village-Campsite (Jungle Camp)
At 9:00 am, meeting the group and tour guide briefly in the office, then we get on Tuk Tuk to the starting point. During the way on driving, we stop at the local market to buy some food supplies. Trekking point starts from Nam Ha village, here get a local guide who is well known the trail, herb, plant, wildlife track in that region. Then we begin trek through plantation for 10 minutes before getting into the untouched jungle of the Nam Ha National Protected Area in which you may encounter and hear some of wildlife or just see their track, picnic lunch will be stopping on the way when we are hangry. Our guides will share their ancestral knowledges about the traditional use of medicinal plants, edible leaves, teach us to set the traditional hunter camp and preparing a delicious Khmu jungle food, using the supplies and resources of the jungle for a truly unique experience. Thereafter, we continue the trek downhill through primary forest until campsite.

Day 2: Campsite-Nalan village
In the morning, we can get up early to enjoy many kinds of animals singing to another from the higher mountain tops around the campsite. After breakfast, on this day we have two options as:

The first option (about3 hours hike). After breakfast, prepare the belonging we’ll cross the Nam Ha River and walk to another side of the riverbank, and traditional lunch will be prepared in Nalan village. The village award ASEAN Standard of Community Based Tourism 2018where we will learn about Khmu lifestyle, culture, and traditions.

The second option (5-6 hours hike) is following the way back until first day stops. From here the trail is in the valley of Nam Ha NPA. After lunch we continue hiking downhill slightly to the stream, where there is lot of canopies from huge, so we will be arriving to the village before sun sets. After check in your homestay, you have time to walk around the village and learn about their lifestyle, culture and traditional. After dinner on local food, you will enjoy tourism activities offered by community.

Day 3: Nalan-Chalernsouk village or (Nalan-Nahome-Namlue village)
In the morning we still have time to visit the village, test Lao Coffee or local tea by bamboo cup, and get a chance to practice cross bow shooting and rice ponding by hand.

After breakfast, on this day we have two options as:

The first option (3-4 hours hike) by hike uphill through forest. Traditional lunch will be prepared end of Nalan village’s responsible route on the forest path. Thereafter, we will have an easy two-hour hike down the mountain slope until we arrive at the Chalernsouk village, where our tuk tuk driver will be waiting for us and shuttle the group back to Luang Namtha.

The second option (5-6 hours hike) follow the Nam Ha River to Nahome village and through the open cultivated areas of the Khmu and Lanten minority group. Lanten is a minority group who still wear traditional clothes, make their own textile, and do natural color clothes dyeing and bamboo paper maker (according to the season). After lunch and visiting the village, we take gradually hike up to steep hill into the jungle, the trail is more challenging, but it is also more and more beautiful forest, landscape, and canopy. The final descent takes the group past upland cultivated areas tended by the people of Namlue village. The trail steepens here and can be slippery after rainfall.  And that is where we end our trek and return to Luang Namtha in the afternoon by Tuk Tuk.