Itinerary

Itinerary

The township of Sapa lies on a hill station at the attitude of about 1,600m and was built by the French into a famous summer resort with some hundred colonial villas which was well-known as “ Tonkin’s Alps” . The complicated terrain of Sapa including steeped high mountains with sharp cuts and large valleys, many streams of water in combination with sloped terraced paddies form magnificent scenery. Sapa is one of the most wonderful places in Asia and is a magical combination of landscapes, ethnic cultures and bracing mountain air. In this tour you will have change to live with the local people to enjoy their daily lives.

DAY 1: HANOI - SAPA - CAT CAT VILLAGE - SAPA (L/D)

07.00 – 7.30 Pick up from our office/your hotel, get on Luxury Minivan and depart for Sapa Town.

09.30 Follow the highway to Lao Cai city with the first comfort break

11.00 Second comfort break at Lao Cai city before approaching Sapa

13.00 Arrive Sapa Town with colourful traditional costumes of H’Mong, Dzao, Tay ethnic People.

Welcome drink and itinerary briefing

Enjoy the lunch with local Vietnamese dishes

14.00 Walking down to the South-West of Sapa (around 4kms) to visit Catcat village of Black H'mong people. Relax at the food of the stunning waterfall and the vestige of a hydroelectric power station that was constructed by the French during the colonial time in Vietnam. And then next 3km to Shin Chai, the village located at the foot of Fansipan Mountain, “the roof of Vietnam and Indochina “. Walk up back to Sapa, and you will free time in the afternoon for leisure or shopping.

16.00 Come back to Sapa Town.

Have dinner and overnight in hotel.

DAY 2:  LAO CHAI - TA VAN - SAPA - HANOI (B/L) 

After freshen up and breakfast in the restaurant, check out and leave the luggage at store luggage at your hotel

09.00 - 09.30 Our guide will come to your hotel to pick up you to Lao Chai village and Tavan village. This part offers spectacular scenery of the highest part of Hoang Lien Son mountain range and Fanxipan Peak can be seen in a nice day. Crossing the river by a suspension bridge you will challenge your feet uphill to Y Linh Ho village. Here you will visit some H’mong families, watch 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 follows the river bank to Ta Van of the Zay people for visiting local homes, village schools, etc. You will enjoy much your cultural discovery of local ethnic peoples as well as breathtaking scenery of the Muong Hoa valley.

15.00 - 15.30 Your luxury Minivan is leaving at our hotel for your depart to Hanoi.

21:00 – 21:30 arriving back your hotel. Tour finished.

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