Lai Chau is a province in the northwest of Vietnam sharing borderline with Yun Nan province of China, Son La province, Dien Bien province to the west and south, and Lao Cai province to the east. The province is situated at the altitude of 1,500m above sea level, comprising high mountains, pure streams and rivers

Trekking in Northern Vietnam is one-part outdoors adventure and one-part cultural exchange experience. North of Hanoi, Vietnam is a whole new world, a landscape of limestone mountains and terraced rice paddies that ripple through clouds and down past rivers, waterfalls, and forest. Extensive networks of trekking trails connect tribal villages throughout the region, passing through extraordinary natural beauty on the way to remote homestays in ethnic minority communities.