Name: Tour Mu Cang Chai & Sapa - 5 Days | Visit Viet Nam
Price: 580.00 USD
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Guide

English Speaking Guide

Flights

N/A

Meals

All meals as intinerary

Others

Accommodation as indicated Private car/mini van All entrance fees English speaking guide (Other languages on request) Meals as per program

Transport

Private car

Accommodation

Hanoi: Hanoi Emerauld Hotel or Similar Sapa: Sapa Vista Hotel and Homestay in Ta Van Village

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Drinks Other meals Insurance

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Day 1 Day 1: Hanoi Arrival
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 1: Hanoi Arrival

Arrive in Hanoi. Greeted by your driver at the airport. Transfer to your hotel in the city centre for check-in and free at leisure. Note*: The hotel room will be available at 2:00pm, and in case that you would like to secure an early-check in, an additional charge will be applied. Please be advised that both international and domestic might be crowded at sometimes during the day, so in case that you arrive and cannot find our representatives, please be presented at Pole No.16 outside lobby A2 (International) or Lobby of domestic arrival (Domestic flight) and contact us, so we could easily search for you . Meals: N/A Accommodation: Hotel in Hanoi
Day 2 Day 2: Hanoi - Mu Cang Chai
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 2: Hanoi - Mu Cang Chai

After breakfast at your hotel, at 6:30am Crossing’s private tour guide and driver pick you up for a beautiful drive to Mu Cang Chai. If we have time, have a quick visit to Duong Lam ancient village in Son Tay. Several stops on the way for breaks and photos. It is a long journey (300km), but as you reach Mu Cang Chai, it is like a step to the paradise of rice terraces.

On arrival, we start walking to visit small village in Tu Le, follow the terraces fields and conquer the pine forest. Then you will stop at Khau Pha Pass, one of four peaks pass in Vietnam. You will enjoy the fresh air cool in the middle of nature and mountains. When you go on a small road in the forest, you will have the opportunity to hear the birds singing and the occasional squirrel in a tree.

After 2 hours walk you will encounter villages where people Hua Khat ethnic minority Hmong live, where you’ll discover extremely simple lives and many wild character. Yet indigenous people could not communicate with us because of the language barrier, but they are very friendly and open welcome when we visit home. Leaving the village of the Hmong people you will be completely surprised to see the valley of terraced fields, which is the mark of human impact on nature in a harmonious way. We can imagine as the space carved by the hands of the artists.

Check in homestay in Mu Cang Chai then waiting for the dinner, enjoying local foods and local wine with Thai’s family.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner. Accommodation: Homestay in Mu Cang Chai
Day 3 Day 3: Mu Cang Chai - Sapa
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 3: Mu Cang Chai - Sapa

A wonderful morning starts with breakfast and a cup of tea or coffee in the paradise of rice terraces.

8h30: You depart to visit terraced fields are recorded as national heritage.

We will go about 7km to reach the point of walking. All the beautiful things of Mu Cang Chai are waiting for you at the top, after a 1 hour climb we go through the H’mong people where you will meet innocent children, met hardworking women. All will welcome you with a friendly smile, in this village you can visit the traditional home of the indigenous people and learn the customs. You continue on the trail until you see the whole terraced fields that have been recorded as national heritage. This beautiful place has been CNtraveler magazine rated as the theater of golden rice.

After lunch at homestay, our tour guide and driver will guide you go through the most beautiful road in Vietnam, Than Uyen Valley.

Around noon, you will say goodbye your tour guide, your driver will take you to Sapa. Check in on arrival. Overnight hotel in Sapa.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch. Accommodation: Sapa Vista hotel
Day 4 Day 4: Sapa - Y Linh Ho - Lao Chai - Ta Van
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 4: Sapa - Y Linh Ho - Lao Chai - Ta Van

Breakfast at your hotel, you will enjoy a free walk around this charming town, paying visit to Sapa market and the old cathedral where you can meet a lot of local ethnic minority peoples such as Black H’mong and Red Zao wearing their traditional colorful dresses selling their farming and gathering products and handicrafts for souvenir. Back to our Sapa office at about 10.30 and begin your exploration trip to Muong Hoa valley. You will follow the main road heading south for about an hour before turning right to a foot path down hill to Muong Hoa Valley. This part offers spectacular scenery of the highest part of Hoang Lien Son mountain range and in a nice day, Fansipan Peak can be seen. Crossing the river by a suspension bridge you will challenge your feet uphill to Y Linh Ho village. Here you will pay visiting to some H’mong families, watching them doing their daily works. After picnic Lunch, the trail continues up and down hill for about 2 hours as you reach to Lao Chai, a large village of the H’mong and then following the river bank to Ta Van of the Zay people. Paying visiting to local homes, village schools… you will enjoy much your cultural discovery of local ethnic peoples as well as breathtaking scenery of the Muong Hoa Valley. Settle down in Ta Van village for an overnight home stay.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner. Accommodation: Homestay in Ta Van Village
Day 5 Day 5: Return To Hanoi
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 5: Return To Hanoi

In the morning, our tour guide will come to pick you up and guide you to visit Heaven Gate and Silver Waterfall. After lunch our tour guide come to pick you up for the transfer to Hanoi by sleeping bus, which takes around 6 hours. Goodbye and see you again

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

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Mu Cang Chai & Sapa - 5 Days

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Itinerary of your trip Mu Cang Chai & Sapa - 5 Days

Day 1: Hanoi Arrival

Day 2: Hanoi - Mu Cang Chai

Day 3: Mu Cang Chai - Sapa

Day 4: Sapa - Y Linh Ho - Lao Chai - Ta Van

Day 5: Return To Hanoi

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