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For centuries traders and their horse caravans tread the paths of Northern Laos on the road from Mengla to the salt springs of Boten and then on Chiang Mai. Today this horse caravan road is almost forgotten and lost to the forest. On the Old China Road 2 Day Trek you will have the chance to retrace the steps of the old traders and capture a taste of what it must have been like to have walked these forested ways a hundred years ago.
The Old China Road 2 day trek is a moderate trek through forest and rice paddies. This has expansive views of the area’s mountains and a stay in a little studded ethnic group called Sida.

Itinerary:
Day 1: Luang Namtha - Nayoum Dang Tai - Ban Sida
The trek starts in the Hmong village of Nayoum Dang Tai. Climbing through plantation forest, eventually we’ll enter Thongli’s cattle farm. Upon request by Green Discovery, Mr. Thongli, the former vice governor of the province, has set aside 200 m on either side of the trekking trail as reserve forest. This reserve forest ends at the giant fig tree. The local villages believe that this fig tree is inhabited by spirits. Beyond the fig tree is the land of Ban Sida and the old road to China. The old road will follow a ridge line before our trail breaks way to drop down to the rice paddies of Ban Sida. Walking across the paddies we’ll see the village of the Sida ethnic group in the distance. The Sida will be our hosts for the night. The villagers have interesting legends about how they came to be. Ask our guide to translate them for you.

Approximately: 1 ½ hour transfer/ 6 hours trekking

Day 2: Ban Sida - Ban Nam Dee - Luang Namtha
After breakfast, we depart from the village returning through the rice paddies and then back up to the ridge to join the old again for a while. The trail will climb up to the top of a small mountain where we’ll have lunch before descending through reserve forest and the broad vistas of surrounding mountains. The trail ends again on the old road at the Lanten village of Ban Nam Dee. We take a refreshing shower in the village’s waterfall before returning to Luang Namtha

Approximately: 15 minutes/ 5 hours trekking

* Maximum of 8 per tour

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Where does your money go?
From 8 people on the Old China Road 2 Day Trekking Trip in 2008
Actual distribution may differ slightly from trip to trip due to exchange rates, changing costs and specific conditions of a particular tour

	: Green Discovery, overhead, equipment costs, marketing, product development, profit 23%
	: Villager 28%
	: Guides, drivers, restaurant 21%
	: Nam Ha NPA 9%
	: Community Based Tourism Development Fund 6%
	: Taxes 13%

Green Discovery recognizes that the welfare of our business depends on the welfare of the people, communities and environment around us. It is for that reason that we take extra effort to ensure that benefits from our trips are distributed broadly. Each trip is a bit different but all trips benefit the local economy and contribute to protecting the environment. The guides, drivers, the food and most of the villagers benefit from your presence. Most notably you’ll see that every village we visit not only receives some of the money that you paid for the tour, they also are active business partners in the tour. We also pay $2 per day per person to the National Protected Area and set aside 10% of the above expenses for training of guides, villagers and development of more community-based tourism programs.

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