Duration: 3 days 4 nights
Price: contact to: sales@asiacharmtours.com for the best price.
Overview
With this trip, you will have an opportunity to discover local life in Ban Ho - Sin Chai villages with marvelous terrace fields above Muong Hoa valley. You will be a part of Zay & Red Dao family in Sin Chai and Thanh Phu minority with home stay.
Itinerary:
Tour guide and car pick up at your hotel lobby at 19h.30 for a short transfer to Hanoi railways station for taking the overnight train (first class 4 beds cabin with air-condition) which arrive in Lao Cai city next morning.
Day 1: Sapa - Ban Ho - Sin Chai (B, L, D)
Pick up from Lao Cai station and transfer to Sapa for breakfast
After that, local guide and driver then transferred to Su Pan. The trek starts by walking through the incredibly scenic “Ban Ho” valley. Here you will have the opportunity to visit and explore the wooden houses, which traditionally belong to the Tay ethnic minority. You will then continue to walk to Thanh Phu village where you stop for lunch in a local house. After lunchtime, you head to Sin Chai village of Red Dzao minority where the night will be spent in the Red Dzao Village.
Approx: 1-hour driving/ 5 hours walking/ 1-hour lunch.
Day 2: Sin Chai - Nam Nhiu - Nam Than - Thanh Phu (B, L, D)
Breakfast. Today’s trek takes you through several villages where you will be able to meet Tay, Hmong and Xa Pho ethnic minorities. You will have time to photograph the beautiful rice paddy terraces and the surrounding mountain. On the way you will visit a local school. Your lunch will be prepared and served in a local house.
In the afternoon, you head back to Thanh Phu village of Tay minority. Here you will spend the night. You can take a walk to explore local daily life while your dinner will be served with Vietnamese dishes.
Overnight at local house.
Approx: 4 hours walking/ 1-hour lunch
Day 3: Thanh Phu - My Son - Nam Toong - Sapa (B, L, D)
Have breakfast at homestay.
On the last day of the trek you will cross several suspension bridges and trek through lush rice paddy fields and stunning scenery. You have a unique opportunity to meet Xa Pho minority in My Son village, one of the smallest group ethnic living in Northern Viet Nam. They always maintain their unique costume and nomadic life. You trek uphill to Nam Toong village of Red Dzao minority, where you have lunch in a local school. In the afternoon, your trek will be firstly downhill to Ban Ho village where you will have time for a swim in the river. The car will meet you there and return you to Sapa.
16h30 Transfer to station for overnight train back Hanoi .
Day4: Hanoi arrival
Arrive around 5h30 AM .The end of great trip!
Approx: 1-hour driving/ 4 hours walking/ 1 hour lunch.
Tour included:
• Round Trip Train Tickets from Hanoi (Deluxe Soft Sleeper 4Berth Cabin - 2berth Cabin requested and pay extra)
• English or French speaking guide (Surchage for French speaking guide $.10/day)
• All needed transport
• All indicated meals (B-Breakfast; L-Lunch; D-Dinner)
• Sleeping bag and mattresses
• All entrance fees and permit
• Overnight in local house
Tour excluded:
• Personal Pocket Money
• Soft drink (beer, coca cola…)
• Insurance, tips for guide and driver and so on.
• All other services not indicated above
What to bring:
Sun Block, Wide brim hat, Camera + Film, Comfortable shoes, Rain gear, Warm clothes, Insect Repellent, Original Passport
