Night 1: Pick up from hotel for the night train at at 9:30 PM to get to Laocai Station.
App. Accommodation: Overnight train.
Day 1 (Saturday): Can Cau - Bac Ha
Picked up at Laocai Train Station to transfer to Can
Cau market. It takes more than 2 hours to get to CanCau - a small
market situated in a valley surrounded by mountains and only 7 km from
China. The market deeply shows the typical cultural features of the
minorities in remote mountainous areas in Vietnam. Further more, you
can enjoy seeing boys and girls in colourful costumes - different
colours of the mountains. They attend the market in the hope of finding
"the other halves of their lifves" and this is also the time for them
to chat, to exchange everything among different ethnic peoples through
cups of wine sold in the market. Say goodbye to the market and transfer
to BacHa. On the way, spend time visiting a village of the Flower
H'mong and then check in hotel in BacHa. Free to explore the town.
Lunch in CanCau or in BacHa and dinner in BacHa.
App. Meals: B - L - D. Accommodation: Hotel.
Day 2 (Sunday): Bac Ha - Sapa
A walk to BacHa market. Visit one village and an old
building called The H'mong king's house. Breakfast and the beginning of
the day on which you visit a big market filled with many different
hill-tribe peoples. This is the most colourful market in North Vietnam.
At the market, you have chance to enjoy BacHa people's simple but
unique kinds of food with special wines made from rice, cassavas, corn
and different sorts of fruits such as plumps, apples, peaches...
talking to the minorities through the guide's interpretation. Leave the
market for the H'mong King's house (King Hoang A Tuong) built by the
French colonists and the Chinese in 1920. Return the town for lunch. In
the afternoon, spend time visiting another village (BanPho village) Say
good bye to BacHa and get back to Sapa. On the way back, drop in to see
the Vietnamese and Chinese Harbor Mouth in LaoCai. Reach Sapa late in
the afternoon. Check in hotel in Sapa.
App. Meals: B - L - D. Accommodation: Hotel.
Day 3 (Monday): Sapa - Muong Hoa valley
Check
out hotel and start a trekking trip towards Muong Hoa valley to visit 3
villages of the H,mong, the Dzay people with around 14 km of trekking.
Enjoy beautiful landscapes, terraced paddy fields. Discover the live of
the people with different cultures. Have dinner and spend the night at
the family.
App. 7 hours trekking - 15 km - Meals: B - L - D - Accommodation: Homestay.
Day 4 (Tuesday): Coc Ly market
Leave from the village early at 6:30 AM for CocLy
market, which is situated far from Sapa. Enjoy the peaceful life of 6
different minority peoples (Flower H'mong, Black Dzao, Tay, Dzay, HaNhi
and Nung). The market is the chance for the minorities to meet and
share joy and sorrows after the crops, to exchange one another's
experience. Say goodbye to the market and get down onto a boat along
Chay river. You are bound to feel great and find yourselves smaller
among high rock mountains and to be surprised at white and
breathtakingly waterfalls. The Fairy Cave is located deeply in the
rocks. Get off the boat to visit a village of the Tay Minority (Trung
Do village) by the river. After the boat trip, visit a small town - Bao
Nhai and then take jeep back to Laocai Station for the night train to
Hanoi. Have dinner before getting on the train.
App. Meals: B - L - D. Accommodation: Overnight train.
Day 5: Hanoi
Arrive in Hanoi roughly 4:30 AM. The end of tour.
Inclusions:
- Train-tickets Hanoi - Lao Cai 02 ways
* Standard class: First class Cabin (4 people/cabin)
* Deluxe class: Deluxe Cabin Victoria train (2 people/cabin)
- Meals as mentioned in the tour
- English/french speaking guide
- Boat trip on Chay river
- Entrance fees
- Accommodation (Hotel and home-stay), twin/double sharing room
* Standard class: 3 star hotel
* Deluxe class: 4 star hotel - Victoria Sapa Resort or Chau Long, Deluxe room.
- Transportation as the program
Exclusions: Insurance, Drinks, Phone calls and other private expenses.
Notes: Advised to take good walking shoes, raincoats, jackets, torch, insect repellent and sunscreen...