Hanoi - Lao Cai - Sapa - Lao Chai - Ta Van - Ban Ho - Thanh Phu - Cat Cat - Sapa - Lao Cai - Hanoi
Rate: from $315 - $515
Sapa Trekking 5 days 6 nights, travel by train, visiting Ban Ho, Thanh Phu village, Lao Chai Ta Van villages, homestay for life experience. A former French hill station, located in the middle of the breaktaking landscapes in the north of Vietnam, Sapa is one of the most wonderful places in Asia and is a magical combination of landscapes....
Full Itinerary
Night 1: Hanoi - Sapa
At 08: 30pm our tour guide will pick you up at hotel lobby to escort you to the Hanoi railway station for night train to Sapa. The train conditions are very basic however we will travel in soft sleeper class which is compartment for 4 passengers. Stay overnight on the train.
Day 1: Lao Cai - Sapa - Lao Chai - Ta Van (B, L, D)
Picked up at Lao Cai Station early in the morning by our bus. Arrive at Sapa round 8: 00 AM; Breakfast start at 10: 30AM to get to Laochai village. Enjoy the overall pictures of the villages among terraces. Visit the H'mong living in wooden and bamboo houses. Continue going to Tavan village to visit the Dzay minority. Picnic lunch on the way and dinner and overnight at the home-stay.Stay the night in Ta Van village at a Dzay family..
Day 2: Ta Van - Ban Ho (B, L, D)
Breakfast with the local family and then get to a village located at the foot of Hoang Lien Son range via bamboo forests. Visit a waterfall and a rattan bridge. After visitting Giang ta chai village, get down to the river, cross it and keep going to Su Pan village for 2 minorities - The H'mong and the Red Dzao. Get off the road to go down hill to Ban Ho village. Picnic lunch on the way and dinner at the family. Overnight at Ban Ho with a Tay family who have houses on stilts.
Day 3: Ban Ho -Thanh Phu (B, L, D)
Get up early in the morning for fresh air and peaceful daily life of the people. Breakfast and leave the village for a hard day. Walk uphill to a smallest and almost untouched village of the Red Dzao (Namtoong). Go further to another village on the same side of of the mountain range to see the XaPho ethnic group in Nam Ken. Get down to the river and go up to Mi Son to visit the Xa Pho again. Spend the night in Thanh Phu village at a Tay family. Picnic lunch on the way and dinner with the local family. Overnight in homestay.
Day 4: Thanh Phu - Sapa (B, L, D)
Breakfast at Thanh Phu village. Walk back to SuPan village where our jeep car take you back to Sapa. On the way back, visit the ancient stone circle (stones decorated with ancient carvings which are said to have described the life of the people lost in the mists of prehistory) Check in hotel. Lunch at Su Pan and dinner in Sapa. Overnight in hotel.
Day 5: Cat Cat - Lao Cai (B, L, D)
Breakfast, visit village of the black H'mong (Catcat), walk around visiting people in the village and the hydroelectric power station built by the French in the old days. Back town have lunch and check out hotel, free to explore the town until take bus to get to Lao Cai Station for the night train back to Hanoi. Overnight on the train.
Day 6: Hanoi - Arrival
Getting back to Hanoi at early morning. Take a taxi to come your hotel by yourself. End of services.
Tour Rates
Prices quoted in US$ nett per person
Class
2 Pax
3 - 5 Pax
6 - 8 Pax
Single Supplement
2 Star
445
395
355
70
3 Star
475
425
385
100
4 Star
515
465
425
140
Included
Private tour
Accommodation (double or twin sharing) in places as indicated in program
Meals as mentioned in the itinerary (B - breakfast, L - lunch, D - dinner)
All transportation as indicated in program
All guided sightseeing fees as per itinerary
English speaking tour guide at places as indicated in program
Train ticket Hanoi - Lao Cai - Hanoi (4 berth cabin, A/C)
Excluded
Visa fee to Vietnam
Personal expenses such as shopping, telephone, laundry and bar bills etc.
Other meals, drinks and personal expenses
Late check out & early check in for all accommodation at the places (Normaly check in: at 14: 00 PM and check out at 12: 00 PM)
All other services are not made on the written form
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