Tour routes: Hanoi - Sapa - Lao Chai - Ta Van - Coc Ly market - Lao Cai - Hanoi
Duration: 2 days 3 nights
Tour type: private
Price: from 185usd/person
OVERVIEW
Sapa is not only famous for beautiful landscape, it is also to be know as culture destination, that features would be easy to be find in regular markets of Coc Ly which take place one a week Tuesday morning, where hill tribe people carry with them the home-made products or pulling dogs, buffalos.. to sell and purchasing daily life material, exchange farming experience and meet friends...
TOUR ITINERARY
Day 1 (SUN) Hanoi - Lao Cai - Night train
We will be met you at 07.00pm at the lobby of your hotel and transferred to the Hanoi Railway station. We spend the night on a 4 soft sleeper berth cabin with A/C train.
Day 2 (MON) Sapa - Lao Chai - Ta Van - Sapa (B, L, D)
Up on arrival in Lao Cai Railway station early in the morning we will be met by a local guide who will escort us toSapa town. After checking in hotel, we enjoy our breakfast at the hotel restaurant and relax.
Our tour will be started after that. We will embark on a lovely trek that will take us along buffalo paths and trails and though several hill tribe villages, Lao Chai and Ta Van, home of the black H’mong and Dzay ethnic minority people.
This is an absolutely spectacular walk through stunning scenery inhabited by some of the friendliest people we can meet. Once on the valley floor we can really appreciate the wonderful scenery that surrounds us. The walls of the valley are covered with multi-layered rice terraced fields and scattered villages. Return to Sapa by our waiting vehicle.
Trekking distance 10 km
Day 3 (TUE) Coc Ly Tuesday market - Lao Cai (B, L, D)
We have our breakfast at the hotel then check out. Our trip today is going to the Coc Ly, Tuesday market. It takes us 2 hour driving from Sapa but the view on the road seems to make the time shorter by the typical splendid in the Northwest of Vietnam. Coc Ly is a small but very colorful market, where the Flower H’mong ethnic minority people gather to exchange their homemade products.
After that we will take a boat trip on the river with beautiful mountains on both sides. On the way we will have a short trek to Trung Do village (Tay). This is a unique opportunity for us to see the traditional lifestyle of tribal minorities and their costumes and handicrafts. Then we drive back to Lao Cai for the overnight train to Hanoi.
Day 4 (WED) Hanoi arrival
Up on arrival in Hanoi very early morning. End of services.
Tour included:
- Transports
- Pick-up/drop-off at Lao Cai station
- Pick-up from hotel in Hanoi Old Quarter to Hanoi station
- All of meals as mentioned
- Accommodation in Sapa
- Entrance fees
Tour excluded:
- Drinks, tips
- Personal expenses
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