🕚 08:00 - Pick-up & drive into Bach Ma national park
🌲 The air cools as you ascend. Pine trees appear, the road becomes winding, and clouds dance between branches.
🌄 Your guide shares stories of Bach Ma’s history - from French retreat to national park treasure.
🕚 09:00 - Summit walk to the old French villas
🏘️ Explore moss-covered ruins once used as luxury summer homes.
📿 Vines crawl over crumbled stone walls, and silence feels sacred.
🕚 10:00 - Trek to the Five Lakes Waterfalls (2 hours)
🌟 This is the highlight.
💦 You follow forest trails shaded by towering trees, pass trickling streams, and reach five emerald-colored natural pools formed by waterfalls.
🏊 You may swim (optional) - the water is cool, refreshing, and pure.
🗣️ Along the trek, your guide points out:
🌷 rare orchids
🌿 medicinal forest plants
🦋 birds & butterflies
☘️ moss ecosystems that store water
🕚 12:30 - Picnic Lunch by a Lake
🥘 A simple, peaceful lunch where the forest breeze feels healing.
🕚 13:30 - Community Outreach Visit
🎎 After descending the mountain, you visit a small household affected by storms.
🛡️ You learn how families:
📍 reinforce fragile roofs
📍 prepare emergency rice stock
📍 survive without electricity during typhoons
📍 support elders and children
🧰 You personally deliver a relief kit (food staples + hygiene items + school supplies).
❤️ It’s intimate, warm, and deeply human.
🕚 15:00 - Slow Scenic Drive Back
🏞️ Forests fade into rice fields as you reflect on the day.
🕚 16:30 - Arrive at hotel