Duration: 3 days/04 nights
Tour route: Hanoi – Lao Cai – Can Cau – Bacha Sapa – Lao Cai – Hanoi
Feature: Waken up by the footsteps of people walking to the market, and you will be more surprised to enter the market. The whole market looks colorful like flowers. It is getting bigger and bigger, more and more colorful and special when seeing people taking along pigs, cats, buffaloes, horses for sales. After lunch we drive you to Chay River to do the boat trip for 2 hours up stream to see wonderful landscape by riversides and explore ethnic villages. .
Night 1 : Hanoi – Lao Cai
Origin Travel car will pick you up at your hotel and transfer to Hanoi train station for the night train to Lao Cai station.Sleep on the train soft sleeper with A/C 4 berth cabin.
Included: Car / van, train ticket,
Day 1 (Saturday): Can Cau – Bac Ha
Picked up at Laocai Train Station, transfer to CanCau 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 life’s” 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. Drive 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.
Included: Car / van, entrance fee(s), Hotel, tour guide, permits, all meals
Day 2 (Sunday): Bac Ha – Sa Pa
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 (Ban Pho village) Say good bye to Bac Ha and get back to Sapa. Reach Sapa late in the afternoon. Check in hotel in Sapa.
Included: Car / van, entrance fee(s), Hotel, tour guide, permits, all meals
Day 3: Sa Pa – Via night train to Hanoi
Breakfast, check out hotel at 10:00 AM. Get downhill by jeep to the valley then walk for 3 villages of the Black H’mong and the Dzay people. Lunch at a Dzay family. Get up to the road for a jeep back to Sapa. Then take bus to LaoCai Station for the night train to Hanoi. Dinner near the train Satation
Included: Car / van, entrance fee(s), tour guide, permits, all meals, train ticket
Day 4: Hanoi
Arrival Hanoi around 5:00am
Why book this tour with Origin Vietnam ?
- Trek/walk on the roads less traveled,
- Home-stay at the Dao’s ethnic minority or H’mong ethnic minority
- Attention to your personal needs before and after the trek
- Origin Travel bring you SEE and KNOW the Original of Vietnamese people’s culture, tradition, customs and habits…
- Origin works to help local communities by sharing the benefits of RESPONSIBLE TOURISM
S.S is used for Single Supplement: A surcharge added to the cost per person when one want to have her/his own room.
Costs are $US NET. Subject to 3% surcharge if paid by credit cards or 2% on travellers’ cheque.
Inclusion: See inclusive items listed after each day
Exclusion: Visa, Insurance, drinks, personal expenses, others not mentioned in details, tips are welcome!
What to bring: Passport, change of clothes, sun-glasses & hat, toiletries, sun-block, insect repellent, flashlights, good shoes, personal first aid kit & medicines, small VND notes for buying drinks. If you feel the need then sleeping bags, cable lock for your bags is recommended.
Notes:
Homestay condition is very basic, please expect the simple things,
Meals: Vietnam food.
Guide: English speaking guide (on site).
AC soft sleeper train to Sapa, please see our FAQs on Sapa Travel FAQs
Please travel responsibly: The small things you do will make a big difference!
Time to travel: Good to travel year round but best from September to April.
Booking Terms & Conditions: Tour itinerary and tour prices are subject to change without notice. Please click here for more information
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