Guide

Local English speaking tour guide.

Accommodation

Accommodation: 1 night in deluxe hotel in Sapa and 1 night at village.

Others

Transfer from Lao Cai station to Sapa and back in shared mini bus with air-con • HANOI- LAO CAI STATION overnight train basing on first class 4 berth cabin with air-con and bus back Hanoi • Accommodation: 1 night in deluxe hotel in Sapa and 1 night at village. • All meals as mentioned on above itinerary. • Sightseeing fee, tax and services charge. • Local English speaking tour guide.

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Meals

All meals as mentioned on above itinerary.

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Insurance

Take the sleeper train getting picked up at your hotel at about 8PM or If trains are unavailable, you will be picked up at your hotel in time to catch the 10PM sleeper cabin bus to Lao Cai and return to Hanoi by Limousine bus arriving at about 3PM.

Others

• Meals not indicated on the itinerary. • Drinks and Personal expenses.

Flights

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Day 1 Day 1: (Thursday) Take Overnight Train Or Sleeper Cabin Bus From Hanoi To Lao Cai
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 1: (Thursday) Take Overnight Train Or Sleeper Cabin Bus From Hanoi To Lao Cai

Be ready at your hotel lobby at 8:00 p.m, our tour guide and driver will meet and pick you up for a short transfer to Hanoi Station to take the overnight train to Lao Cai City.

• Overnight on the train

If trains are unavailable, you will be picked up at your hotel in time to catch the 10PM sleeper cabin bus to Lao Cai and return to Hanoi by Limousine bus arriving at about 3PM.
Day 2 Day 2: (Friday) Lao Cai - Sapa - Y Linh Ho - Lao Chai - Ta Van ( B,L,D)
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 2: (Friday) Lao Cai - Sapa - Y Linh Ho - Lao Chai - Ta Van ( B,L,D)

Day 2 :(Friday) Lao Cai - Sapa - Y Linh Ho - Lao Chai - Ta Van ( B,L,D)

Picked up at Lao Cai Station upon your early arrival for over an hour drive uphill in a shared mini van to Sapa. After freshen up and Breakfast in a local restaurant 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.

• Accommodation: Homestay in Ta Van Village
Day 3 Day 3: (Saturday) Ta Van - Giang Ta Chai - Hau Thao - Sapa Saturday Market ( B,L,D)
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 3: (Saturday) Ta Van - Giang Ta Chai - Hau Thao - Sapa Saturday Market ( B,L,D)

Day 3 (Saturday) Ta Van - Giang Ta Chai - Hau Thao - Sapa Saturday Market ( B,L,D)

Leaving Ta Van village after Breakfast, you will take the trail uphill, passing fascinating terraced rice field and some small hamlets of the H’mong before getting through a bamboo forest to a waterfall, enjoy a break for magnificent scenery and then continue walking for half an hour to Giang Ta Chai village of the Red Zao peoples which sits on the top of a hill and looks down Muong Hoa river. After spending time visiting the village, making friend with the Zao and experiencing the hospitality you will cross the river by another suspension bridge and then uphill again to Hau Thao village where you will pay visiting to a local handicraft center where H’mong and Zao women gather for exchanging experience and skill of making handicrafts. A late Lunch will be prepare here nearby this center and then you have time relaxing as well as getting acquaintance with local school boys, girls and their teachers as well.

Later a short drive will take you back to Sapa, check in your hotel and evening is free to attend the locals at Saturday market in Sapa.

• 3* hotel in Sapa Town
Day 4 Day 4: (Sunday) Sapa - Bac Ha Market - Bus To Hanoi ( B,L,D)
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 4: (Sunday) Sapa - Bac Ha Market - Bus To Hanoi ( B,L,D)

Wake up early for Breakfast and check out your hotel at 07.00 for a 3 hour road ride to Bac Ha via Lao Cai. The road trip is long and hard but the landscapes along the way is so beautiful and several stops at beautiful spots makes the journey shorter. Arrival in Bac Ha at about 10.00 at the most crowded time of the market which is very active and colorful thanks to the traditional dresses of the tribal peoples, especially of the Flower H’mong. You will join the locals at the market for your own discovery, taking a lot of photos as well as enjoying funs. Lunch break in a local restaurant before enjoying a walk for about 2 hours to Ban Pho village of the Flower H’mong and Tay which sits on the sides of several hills looking down a stunning valley. The road trip back to Hanoi by bus,

Back to Hanoi and arrive Hanoi at 10p.m

4 days tour

Sapa Walk And Bac Ha Market 4 Days

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Itinerary of your trip Sapa Walk And Bac Ha Market 4 Days

Day 1: (Thursday) Take Overnight Train Or Sleeper Cabin Bus From Hanoi To Lao Cai

Day 2: (Friday) Lao Cai - Sapa - Y Linh Ho - Lao Chai - Ta Van ( B,L,D)

Day 3: (Saturday) Ta Van - Giang Ta Chai - Hau Thao - Sapa Saturday Market ( B,L,D)

Day 4: (Sunday) Sapa - Bac Ha Market - Bus To Hanoi ( B,L,D)

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