Sapa – Laochai – TaVan – BanHo – Thanh Phu 5 days
Night 1 : Hanoi – Train to Laocai
Pick up at your hotel and transfer to the station to get the night train to Laocai Station. Sleep on the train.
Day 1 : Laocai -Sapa – Laochai – Tavan
Pick up at Laocai Station early in the morning by our bus. Arrive at Sapa round 8:00 AM; Breakfast start at 10h30am 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. Stay the night in Tavan village at a Dzay family. Picnic lunch on the way and dinner at the home-stay.
Day 2 : TaVan - Ban Ho
Breakfast with the local family and then get to a village located at the foot of HoangLienSon 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 SuPan village for 2 minorities – The H’mong and the Red Dzao. . Get off the road to go down hill to BanHo village. Overnight at Ban Ho with a Tay family who have houses on stilts. Picnic lunch on the way and dinner at the family.
Day 3 : BanHo -Thanh Phu
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 NamKen. Get down to the river and go up to MiSon to visit the XaPho again. Spend the night in ThanhPhu village at a Tay family. Picnic lunch on the way and dinner with the local family.
Day 4 : Thanh Phu - Sapa
Breakfast at ThanhPhu village. Walk back to SuPan village where to take a jeep 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). Night in Sapa.
Day 5 : Sapa – Cat cat – Laocai - Train to Hanoi:
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 to town Sapa for lunch. Afternoon, free to explore the town until take bus to get to Laocai Station for the night train back to Hanoi.
Tomorrow, Arrival in Hanoi roughly 5:30 AM. The end of tour.
Tour price include:
- Meals indicate
- Mineral water
- English-speaking guide
- Entrance fees
- Accommodation (Hotel and home-stay)
- Tickets 2 ways Hanoi-Laocai -Hanoi (soft sleeper with air-conditioning, cabin of 04 berth)
- Transport by private car
Excludes:
- Insurance
- Drinks
- Phone calls and other private expenses
Notes: Advised to take good walking shoes, raincoats, jackets, torch, insect repellent and sunscreen..
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