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.

20:30 – 20:45 we pick up at the meeting point, will guide you to the train station all the way to your train cabin.

22:00 Train leave Hanoi to Lao Cai station.

DAY 1: LAO CAI - SAPA - LAO CHAI - TA VAN - SAPA (B/L/D)

5:30 Am: Arrive in Lao Cai station at. After 38 km from Lao Cai to Sa Pa bout one hour's drive on a scenic route brings to Sapa

7:00 Am: Arrive in hotel. Have breakfast, short rest.

9:00 Am: Ready for trek 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.

15:30 our minivan will come to the main road of the village to pick up you back to Sapa central.

16:00: arrive back hotel, check in room.

Have dinner at the restaurant at the hotel. O/n in hotel in Sapa central.

DAY 2:  CAT CAT - SIN CHAI - SAPA (B/L/D) 

After freshen up and have breakfast in the restaurant at the hotel.

09:30 Am Walking down to the South-West of Sa Pa (around 4kms) to visit Cat Cat 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 Sa Pa, have lunch and you will free time in the afternoon for leisure or shopping.

Sleep in hotel in Sa Pa.

DAY 3: SAPA - SUOI THAU - MA TRA - TA PHIN - SAPA - LAO CAI (B/L/D) 

After breakfast, check out the room and prepare light pack for trekking. (Keep big luggage in hotel store)

09.00 – 09.30 Our guide and jeep will pick up you to visit the Red Dzao in Suoi Thau, Ma Tra villages. 9km trekking through the local village, the rice and corn field. Picnic lunch en –route. Reach Ta Phin village where we have chance to learn about the life styles and the custom of the red Dzao minority, enjoy landscapes...then drive back to Sapa.

Have dinner before going back Lao Cai Station or after arrive in Lao Cai train station.

17:00 or 18:15 Our bus will bring you back Lao cai Station to take the train back Hanoi.

21:40: Train leaves Lao Cai station to return Hanoi.

05:30 on the next day, arrive at Tran Quy Cap Train Station. Tour finishes.

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