Routes: Hanoi - Ban Ho - Nam Sai - Ben Den - Lao Cai - Hanoi
Duration: 2 days/3 nights
Night 1: Hanoi - Lao Cai
Our tour guide will pick you up at hotel lobby to escort you to the Hanoi railway station for night train with soft sleeper class which is compartment for 4 passengers per cabin to Laocai in the evening. Overnight on the train.
Day 1: Lao Chai - Ta Van - Ban Ho - Thanh Phu- Nam Sai / B L D
5.00am - Arrive in Lao Cai. Get to the exit of the train station where you can find your name sign held by Sapa Pathfinder guide. The bus ride uphill to Sa Pa takes a little over an hour, giving you a glimpse of the stunning vistas and
impressive rice terraces. After breakfast, start riding down Sapa valley with its amazing scenery of mountains and rice paddy fields on terraces as far as the eye can see to the Black Hmong and Giay villages of Lao Chai , Ta Van, Su Pan. After a short break here, you will pass through the Black Hmong Village to the Tay ethnic minority village of Ban Ho.
Take a little walk around the village to visit Lavie water fall, then have lunch in a local family in Ban Ho. In the afternoon, your adventure continues into the Tay village of Thanh Phu, Nam Sai. And then you will be served the dinner in a local house and stay overnight in the bamboo huts of Thanh Phu.
Day 2: Thanh phu-Nam Sai-Thanh Phu- Lao Cai/ B L D
After breakfast, keep leaving Thanh Phu, you follow the trekking route built in the bottom of the valley, which offers the best view to the surrounding mountains. You continue toward Sin Chai village of Red Dao minority where. You will be attracted by the wonderful hospitable atmosphere of the Red Dao, stop at a nice spot for lunch, the trip takes you into a fabulously mountainous area, the most remote part of Sapa. En route you meet children’ curious eyes as you are very first tourists passing by. Red Dao ethnic minority inhabits the entire area. Then you will have an opportunity to enjoy great views of an ever green valley lying along the west bank of the Red River. You arrive in Ta Thang village of Tay minority. Your motorbike will run on the flat road back to Lao Cai. The rest of the afternoon is set for freshen up, relax and dinner before boarding the train for Hanoi, which arrives early next morning and trip ends.
Day 3: Hanoi arrival
05.00am: Arrive Hanoi Railway station.
Package includes:
All transfer & transport
Accommodation at homestay
Meals as mention in the itinerary (B- breakfast, L- Lunch, D- dinner)
Return train ticket Hanoi- Lao Cai- Hanoi (soft sleeper with air- condition, 4 berths)
Local English speaking tour guide
Entrance fee & permission to visit the hill tribe village
Package excludes:
Travel insurance
Pre-post accommodation in Hanoi
Other meals & drinks
Admission fees during free time
Personal expenses such as shopping; telephone, laundry and bar bills etc.
Tips and gratuities
All other services not made on the written form
