Sapa BacHa and CanCau weekend markets are full of Flower HMong

Sapa BacHa and CanCau weekend markets are full of Flower HMong

Discover a former hill station established by the French on this amazing 4-day tour of Sa Pa from Hanoi. Spend the night at a homestay to get a taste of the life of the ethnic minority people and trek through the valley to find unspoiled villages.

Itinerary

Day 1: Night 1 ( Friday) : Hanoi -Laocai ( Overnight on the train )

Pass By: Sapa Market, Dien Bien Phu Road, Sapa Vietnam
7h30pm Sapatours 's taxi take you from your hotel in Hanoi to Hanoi Railway Station for the night train at at 8h35 PM to get to Laocai Station. Sleep on the train.(4 people/cabin or 2 people/cabin on request).

No meals included on this day.
Accommodation included: Overnight on train

Day 2: Day 2 (Sunday): Visit BacHa market - Sapa town

Pass By: Sapa Market, Dien Bien Phu Road, Sapa Vietnam
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

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight at hotel

Day 3: Day 3 (Monday): Sapa - Muonghoa valley - Tanvan village

Pass By: Sapa Market, Dien Bien Phu Road, Sapa Vietnam
Check out hotel and start a trekking trip towards Muong Hoa valley to visit 4 villages of the H,mong, the Dzay people with around 17 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.

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight at homestay

Day 4: Day 4 (Tuesday); Sapa -Cocly Market ( night train to Hanoi )

Pass By: Sapa Market, Dien Bien Phu Road, Sapa Vietnam
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 (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.

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight on train