Sapa Surrounding Trek
Tour at a glance:
This tour is exclusively designed for those who want to spend most of their time relaxing and sightseeing at one of the most beautiful tourist sites in Vietnam. That is Sapa, where you can have a great time discovering one interesting place after another and learning new things about hill tribe people.
- Duration: 4 days/ 5 nights
- Transport: Train, taxi, car
- Destinations: Hanoi - Sapa and villages
Tour Itinerary
Get started: Taxi take you to Hanoi Railway Station for the night train at at 9:15 PM to get to Laocai Station. Sleep on the train.
Day 1: Lao Cai - Sapa
Picked up at Laocai Station by bus to Sapa (round 7.30 AM). Check in hotel & breakfast. Free to explore the town.
O/N at hotel in Sapa
Day 2: Sapa, 17 km by car, 15 km trekking , round 5 hours of trekking.
Breakfast at the hotel, take a car ride along MuongHoa valley to visit the Rattan Bridge, silver waterfall, the first village of the Red Dzao people (GiangTa Chai village). Do a trek round 6 – 7 hours through the forests up and down in Fanxipan range then reach Seo Trung Ho village of the Red Dzao. This is an almost untouched village and there are very few tourists getting here. In here, there is a chance to enjoy a most beautiful waterfall in Sapa which comes from a height of about 70 m.
Stay overnight in this village with a Dzao family.
Day 3: Sapa, Round 17 km trekking in the forests.
Have breakfast with the family, start climbing up to the mountain for another untouched village: Ta Trung Ho village located at about 1450m above the sea level. Picnic lunch at the village and then descend BanHo village to visit a different minority: The Tay people who have houses on stilts.
Stay the night at Ban Ho village in a house on stilts. Have dinner with the family.
Day 4: Sapa, 4 hours trekking of 10 km and 23 km by car.
Break fast at BanHo, Go for a walk to a waterfall called Lavie which was discovered and named by the French in the past. Say goodbye to BanHo and the family to get up to Supan village where to take jeep back to Sapa. Have hot shower at the hotel and then take bus to Laocai Station for the night train to Hanoi. Tour finishes.
Tour includes:
- Transfer from the hotel to Hanoi Railway station
- Roundtrip transfer between Lao Cai and Sapa
- Train ticket Lao Cai – Hanoi
- 1 night at hotel in Sapa (breakfast included)
- 2 nights home-stay in the villages
- Full board meals
- Tours and activities as stated above
- Security permits
- English speaking guide
- Entrance fees
Tour excludes:
- Travel insurance
Extra food and beverages
Phone and laundry
Tips and personal expenses
Tour Notes:
- 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
- If you like to take the fireplace, please pay extra: 6USD/room/fireplace
- Pick you up at your hotel at 8:00PM
- Bring 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.














