Day 1: HANOI – SAPA – CAT CAT VILLAGE
06:30: Our bus picks you up at your hotel in Hanoi Old Quarter to depart to Sapa. After 5 hours on the highway, the bus will take you to Sapa.
12:00: Car to Sapa town. You go to the Hotel and have a lunch at the restaurant then check in produres for the group at the hotel.
14:00: Tour guide lead you to walk down the Cat Cat village, start the journey to discover the Black H’mong ethnic minority group.
Visiting Cat Cat waterfall and hydroelectric power plant built by the French in the early twentieth century, have fun and take souvenir photos, etc.
18:30 – 19:00: Having dinner at the restaurant, free time to explore Sapa center at night.
Day 2: TREKKING SAPA – Y LINH HO – LAO CHAI – TA VAN
07:00 – 08:00: Having breafast at the restaurant.
08:30: After breakfast at your hotel, tour guide will pick you up and start your trekking day to Y Linh Ho village and then start hiking through the rice terraces along Muong Hoa stream to Lao Chai, the village of Black H’mong minority. Here you will enjoy the spectacular landscape of Hoang Lien Son mountain ranges. Pass several tribal villages, including Lao Chai and Ta Van, home to the Black H’mong, Dzao and Dzay minority peoples.
12:00: Enjoy lunch and rest at Ta Van village.
14:00: Car pick you up back to Sapa town.
18:30: Enjoy your dinner. Overnight at hotel.
Day 3: BAC HA MARKET – HANOI
06:30: Have a breakfast at your hotel.
07:00: Pick up at hotel. It takes 3 hours driving to Bac Ha market. At the market you will also meet the Flower H’mong (Red H’mong), Black Dzao, Tay, Nung, La Chi, Phu La and other tribal groups who come from far an wide to buy variety of goods and livestock, to exchange news and review friendships. In the past, the market was a centre for trading horses but now that motorbikes have replaced them it is more common to see buffalo, cow, goats, fish and other. Continue the trip to Hoang A Tuong Royal Palace.
12:00: Lunch at local restaurant.
13:30: Trek to Ban Pho village of the Flower H’mong people, to see their house, the daily life, understand little more about their lifestyle and traditional customs. Especially, we can try homemade wine from corn. Drive back to Sapa. 110km about 3 hours ride. En-route, stop to see Trung Do village of the Tay people (if time permits).
16:30: Arriving Lao Cai, the bus stop at the restaurant, you wait at the restaurant then the sleeper bus picks you up and returns to Hanoi.
21:00: Arrive in Hanoi. Tour end.
TOUR INCLUDED
- Sleeping bus from Hanoi to Sapa and Sapa to Hanoi
- 1 night hotel in Sapa
- Meals as mentioned on itinerary
- English speaking guide
- All entrance fees
- Travel insurance
TOUR EXCLUDED
- Tax
- Drinks in the meal
- Other personal expenses
CHILDREN POLICY
- <5 free of charged
- 5 to 8 75% of charged
- 9 charged as adults
