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Tour at a glance:

This special trip brings you to some of the most outstanding sceneries of Sapa and Lao Cai: visit 2 special markets o Bac Ha and Coc Ly then a boat trip on Chay River, visit 4 villages (Ban Pho, Su Pan, Ban Ho, Trung Do) and 8 different minorities (Tay, Black H’Mong, Flower H’Mong, Red Dao, Black Dzao, Dzay, Ha Nhi and Nung).

• Duration: 3 days/ 4 nights
• Transport: Train, taxi, car, boat
• Destinations: Hanoi - Sapa and villages

Tour Itinerary

Get started: Taxi take you to Hanoi Railway Station for the night train at at 9:30 PM to get to Laocai Station. Sleep on the train.

Day 1 (Sunday): Lao Cai - Bac Ha - Sapa

Picked up at Laocai Railway Station by car for Bac Ha market. 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 Harbour Mouth in Lao Cai. Reach Sapa late in the afternoon. Check in hotel

Day 2 (Monday): Sapa

Car to Supan village and a short walk to Ban Ho village to visit the Tay ethnic people who have houses on stilts. Lunch at a local family. Back to Sapa

Day 3 (Tuesday): Sapa - Coc Ly

Leave from Sapa early at 7:00 AM for Coc Ly 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 (TrungDo village) by the river. After the boat trip, visit a small town – BaoNhai and then take jeep back to Laocai Station for the night train to Hanoi. Have dinner before getting on the train.

Arrive in Hanoi roughly 4:30 AM. Tour finished.

Tour includes:

• Transfer from the hotel to Hanoi Railway station
  Roundtrip transfer in Sapa
  Return train tickets Hanoi – Lao Cai – Hanoi (Soft sleeper with A/C – 4 persons in one cabin)
  Boat trip on Chay River
  2 nights at hotel in Sapa
  Full board meals
  English speaking guide
  Entrance fees

Tour excludes:

• Travel insurance
  Extra food and beverages
  Phone and laundry
  Tips and personal expenses

Tour Notes:

• Breakfast in hotel : Buffet (plentiful and variety food)
• Bring walking shoes, raincoat, jacket, extra clothes, torch, insect repellent and sunscreen...
• Train departure from Ha Noi at 9:15PM and from Lao Cai at 20'45PM
• Hotel in Sapa: Bamboo Sapa Hotel or Chau Long
• If you like to take the fireplace, please pay extra:  6USD/room/fireplace
• Pick you up at your hotel at 8:00PM
• Please take your passport to check in hotel.
• Beware of your luggage and money
• Inform in advance if you are vegetarian.
• All customers must obey the order of your tour guide for your safety.
• Passengers are advised not to take along big luggage for convenience.

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