Tour Code:
SPT012
Price from:
$US250
Duration:
4Days 3Nights
Tour route:
Hanoi – Lao Cai – Can Cau– Ta Van Chu – Bac Ha – Thai Giang Pho – Trung Do –
Lao Cai - Hanoi.
Tour overview: Sapa is
known as one of most famous places for trekking tour and explore local life,
including Can Cau, Bac Ha and their surrounding villages combine with home stay
is special design for particular traveler who would like to avoid touristy
activities.
Coming to Sapa, you will feel really pleased to have a great experience with nature and the people here.
Detail itinerary:
Night 1:
Hanoi – Night train to Lao Cai
Around
08:00, our guide will pick you up at the lobby of the hotel in Hanoi transfer
to Hanoi Railways Station for the night train to Lao Cai.
Overnight on
train
Day 1: Hanoi
– Lao cai – Can Cau market- Ta Van Chu home stay village (7 km trekking, 2
hours trekking, 3 hour driving)
Arriving at
Lao Cai train station in the early morning, you will be picked up by guide and
driver. After having breakfast at the local restaurant, we transfer you to Can
Cau market which is about 90km from Lao Cai by van. After 2.5 hours driving,
you will arrive at colorful Can Cau Market which takes place only one time per
week on Saturday, here is the great time for you to meet many different
mountain tribes such as: Flower Hmong, Blue Hmong, Tay, Nung, La Hu as well as
witness the mountain life of minorities people in the North of Vietnam through
exchanging product activities. Lunch will be served before being transferred by
Van to Lung Phinh then we will walk to Ta Van Chu village off the beaten track
for about 7km. Along the way we will go to visit some native houses of Flower
Hmong tribe to study their own culture, custom as well as tradition. Arriving
at home stay in the late afternoon, you will have shower before having dinner
and stay overnight here.
Day 2: Ta
Van Chu – Bac Ha (Sunday market) (13 km trekking, 4 hour trekking)
Having
breakfast at the home stay before heading out for 4 hours trek (13km) to Bac Ha
market which is the most colorful market in Vietnam. After spending 2 hours
looking through market, you will have lunch at the local restaurant. After that
we will walk about 3 hours to Ban Pho village which is inhabited by Flower
Hmong. In this village you can see how local people make clothe and corn wine.
Keep walking another hour to Na hoi village to meet Nung people, overnight at
the home stay in this village.
Day 3: Bac
Ha – Thai Giang Pho – Trung Do – Lao Cai or Sapa (14 km trekking, 2 hour
trekking)
Our tour
starts at 9.am, walking around two hours to Thai Giang Pho village which is
also a village of Flower Hmong tribe however you do not feel bored because of
amazing landscape of rice terraced Can-Cau-Marketfield along the way. Meeting
driver at the end of village, we are transferred to Trung Do village by van,
where you will enjoy a magical water buffalo cart ride while traveling through
amazing countryside inhabited by the happy, friendly and hospitable Tay
minority people. Walking to at the end of village, we will travel by boat along
the Chay River to see Fairy cave and experience the picturesque and magnificent
sights along the river. Meeting driver at the last boat station, we will be
transferred both Sapa or Lao Cai train station at your request but will stop to
see International Chinese border before going to Sapa or Lao Cai.
Day 4: Hanoi
Arrival
5:00 am –
Arrive at Tran Quy Cap station (Hanoi). End of services.
