Night 01: Hanoi - Night train to Lao Cai
20:30PM pick up at the hotel. Transfer to railway station for a night train SP3 at 21:50PM.
App. Accommodation: Overnight train with 4 people in 1 cabin (2 people in 1 cabin upon request).
Day 1: Sapa – Cat Cat
AM: 6h30 arrive in Lao Cai, get picked up at Lao Cai Train Station then transfer to Sapa with the distance of 38kms, approximately 1.5 hours.
Check in and have breakfast in the hotel then you have free time to visit Sapa by yourself.
After lunch walk to visit the Black H’Mong people in Cat Cat village. Enjoy the waterfall in Cat Cat and beautiful sceneries on the way.
In the afternoon, we trek to the main road where our car is waiting for picking you up to Sapa.
Trekking distance: 4 km
Accommodation: Hotel in Sapa
Meal: Breakfast
Day 2: Sapa – Lao Chai – Tavan - Giang Ta Chai
Start the morning by driving from Sapa town down to Lao Chai village. You can meet many ethnic groups (H’mong, Dao) as well as enjoy manificient view of Muong Hoa, terraced rice fiel on the way. We reach to Lao Chai – a village of H’mong ethnic, then walk further to Tavan village to meet Day ethnic.
Have lunch there before trekking aroung 2 hour to Giang Ta Chai village where Red Dao people living. You can easy to realize them by their headdress and costumes.
In the late afternoon, you trek to the main road where our car take you back Sapa. Free time in the evening.
Trekking distance: 15kms
Accommodation: Hotel in Sapa
Meal: Breakfast and Lunch
Day 3: Sapa – Muong Hum (Sunday only)
This gives you an alternative option to visit a Sunday Market in the remote area which is different from Bac Ha market .Leave Sapa early in the morning at 6h30, we drive down to Lao Cai towards Bac Ha by private car. It takes about 2.5 hours through the lush and beautiful moutain view and entries.
Arrive in Muong Hum at 9.00. Start visiting the primitive and beautiful Market of the H’Mong, black Dao, Ha Nhi, Flower H’Mong and the Day minorities. Enjoy the lunch in a local restaurant then we go to visit the village of Ha Nhi tribe.
In the afternoon, we transfer back to Lao Cai Station for night train to Hanoi. The train departs at 20:45PM and arrives Hanoi at 5:30AM in the next morning. Tour finishes.
Trekking distance: 10 km
Meal: Breakfast and Lunch
Accommodation: Overnight train with soft berth 4 people in 1 cabin (2 people in 1 cabin is upon request at surcharge).
