Tour Code: SPM001
Price from: $US178
Duration: 2 Days/3 Nights
Tour route: Hanoi – Lao Cai – Can Cau Market – Bac Ha– Lao Cai – Hanoi
Both Can Cau and Bac Ha markets are very well known in the area for its color painted to local hill tribe people. There are Flower Hmong, Phu La, Black Dzao, Tay and Nung…They all gather to these markets to sell their homemade products such as corn wine, handicraft… as well as an interesting animal. In this trip, you have time to see beautiful, animated and colorful market of the hill tribal peoples with festive atmosphere. You can explore magnificent and stunning landscapes of Bac Ha highland through two markets: Can Cau Market on Saturday and Bac Ha Market on Sunday. Speacially, spend time for boat trip along Chay River.
Day 1: Hanoi – Lao Cai (Night train)
Our tour will be started at 20:45 at the lobby of the hotel. Our guide will pick you up and transfer to the Hanoi Railway station for the overnight to Sapa.
Our tour will be started at 20:45 at the lobby of the hotel. Our guide will pick you up and transfer to the Hanoi Railway station for the overnight to Sapa.
Day 2 Saturday: Lao Cai – Can Cau - Bac Ha (B L D)
Pick up at Lao Cai Station transfer to Sapa town for breakfast and relax.
Then, transfer by road 122km to Can Cau
via Lao Cai city and Bac Ha Town let. The road is good but having many
sharp bend with a long descend and a long ascend which takes about 3
hours including one or two breaks along the way.
Arrive to the market place at about
10.00 am. Spend two hours joining the local tribal peoples including
Flower H’mong, Black Zao, Phu La and Tay for the festive market
activities where peoples in their best traditional costume gather every
Saturday for shopping and socializing. The right location of the market
place also offers photo-hunters ideal opportunity for taking photos, not
only of peoples in colorful traditional costumes but also breathtaking
landscapes of the perfect surrounding. Leaving the market almost at
noon, drirve 20 km back to Bac Ha town let for lunch break.
In the afternoon, you will take a walk
to Ban Pho, a small village of Nung and Flower Hmong. The villagers grow
vegetables and fruit trees. One of the most famous fruit of the area is
plum. Visit a local house and taste a cup of corn wine, another famous
product of the village.
Then go back to hotel late in the afternoon.Tour summary: Road transfer approx.5 to 6 hours/ Market visit & walk 3 hours/ Lunch included.
Day 3 (every Sunday): Bac Ha Maket – Lao Cai railway station (B L D)
Breakfast at hotel.
Early departure from Bac Ha Town at
about 08.00am Sunday morning to arrive to the market place. Spend three
hours joining the local tribal peoples including Flower H’mong, Black
Zao, Phu La and Tay for the market activities and festive atmosphere.
All peoples in their best traditional costume gather every Sunday for
shopping, but socializing is of great importance. The cattle and
clothing sections are the most interesting until 11.00 and then come the
food section where peoples meet, talk, enjoy food and especially drink a
kind of locally made corn-wine.
Lunch break in a local restaurant. Then
leave Bac Ha for half an hour road ride downhill to Trung Do village
which is beautifully set in a valley on the eastern bank of the mighty
Chay River. Take an hour leisure walk to explore this prosperous village
of the Tay ethnic people who live in large stilt houses andl have
maintained well their traditional way of life. Walk to the boat pier in
mid afternoon, boarding a boat for cruising downstream the Chay River
for an hour to Bao Nhai. Boat cruise end at Bao Tan Village, near the
motorway.
Picked up and transfer 45 km to Lao Cai
city, spend half an hour to see trading activities at the border gate
and coffee break before transfer to Lao Cai station.
Tour summary: Road transfer 4 to 5 hours/ Market, village visit & Walk about 4 hours/ Boat trip 1 hour/ Lunch included.Day 4: Hanoi arrival
Up on arrival in Hanoi very early in the morning.
End of service.
Tour summary: Road transfer approx. 0, 5 hour/ Hiking and village visiting 5 to 6 hours. Approx.16km/ Grade 2 of 5.
Meals are included as specified in the itinerary. Meal codes are: B=Breakfast, L=Lunch, D=Dinner.
Please contact us at:
Asia Charm Tours
Head office: 20 Dao Duy Tu, Hanoi, VIETNAM.
Tel: (+844) 3929 0712 - Fax: (+844) 3929 0713
Hotline: (+84)906.288.138 - Email: info@asiacharmtours.com
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