🗓️ Day 1: Dong Hoi - Phong Nha - explore the limestone forest ecosystem - connect with the community (Lunch, dinner)
🌅 Morning:
🚐 Pick up at Dong Hoi airport or hotel, depart for Phong Nha - Ke Bang National Park (45 km, about 1 hour).
♻️ Stop at Phong Nha Visitor Center to listen to a presentation on conservation and sustainable tourism development, presented by conservation officers or eco-tourists.
🚣 Take a boat along the emerald Son River to visit Phong Nha Cave - a majestic limestone cave system, recognized by UNESCO as a World Natural Heritage.
⛰️ In the cave, listen to explanations about geological formations, ecosystems and conservation regulations ensuring the principle of "Don't touch - just learn"
🌞 Lunch:
🥢 Lunch at a local restaurant (eco-friendly menu, using local ingredients: river fish, wild vegetables, free-range chicken).
🏞️ Visit Chay Lap or Tram Me Village - a model community tourism model of Quang Binh.
👩🦱 Meet the people and learn about the process of converting livelihoods from forest exploitation to ecotourism.
☀️ Afternoon:
🌱 Join the workshop "Green living every day": instructions on making recycled products, or planting native trees with local people.
🏠 Check in at community homestay / Chay Lap Farmstay.
🚴♀️ Free cycling around the village, bathing in Son River, watching the sunset on Phong Nha fields.
🌙 Evening:
🍲 Dinner with the host family - enjoy local specialties.
🔥 Campfire exchange (if any), listen to stories about forest and cave conservation told by local people.
🛏️ Stay overnight at homestay.
🗓️ Day 2: Explore rivers & biodiversity - experience responsible tourism practices (Breakfast, lunch)
🌅 Morning:
🐦 Wake up early, listen to the birds and jungle fowl, take a walk around the village or join a morning meditation session in nature.
🍜 Breakfast at homestay with local ingredients.
🚶♀️ Join a short eco walk in Moọc Stream or the forest around Tram Me – learn to recognize medicinal plants, insects, birds and human impact on the ecosystem.
🌞 Lunch:
🍱 Lunch at home.
🚐 Get on the bus back to Dong Hoi, end of program.
✈️ Drop off at airport or hotel (flight optional).
**Program order may change depending on actual situation.**