Sapa – Laochai -TaVan – GiangTaChai – Cocly Market 3 days
Night 1 ( Saturday ) : 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 (Sunday) : Sapa – Laochai Village – TaVan Village
Pick up at Laocai Railway station early in the morning by bus. Arrive at Sapa round 8:00 AM. Breakfast and shower. Start from Sapa at 10:00 AM by jeep and then get down to a valley, visit an H’mong village and the hydroelectric power station built by the French. Take a small path to go and visit other 2 villages of the H’mong and the Dzay people (LaoChai and TaVan village). Stay in TaVan at a Dzay family. Picnic lunch on the way and dinner at the family. Overnight at TaVan village.
Day 2 (Monday): TaVan Village – Giang Ta Chai Village -Sapa
Breakfast at the home-stay, take the road to GiangTaChai village to see the Red Dzao people via the paths through terraces and bamboo forests. Visit a waterfall, a suspension bridge. Picnic lunch and cross the river. Visit an H’mong village up to the mountain. Take a jeep back to Sapa. Visit the ancient stone circle on the way back. Check in hotel. Overnight at hotel.
Day 3 (Tuesday): Sapa – CocLy Market – Boat Trip on Chay River – Lao Cai – Train to Hanoi.
Breakfast at the hotel. Leave from Sapa early at 7:00 AM for CocLy market by jeep or bus, which is situated far from Sapa. Enjoy the peaceful life of different minority peoples ( Flower H’mong, Black Dzao, Tay, Dzay). 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. 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 night train.
Tomorrow, Arrival in Hanoi roughly 5:30 AM. The end of tour.
Tour price includes :
- Full meals as mentioned on the tour program
- Mineral water
- English/French – speaking guide
- Entrance fees
- Accommodation ( Hotel and home-stay at TaVan village )
- Tickets 2 ways Hanoi-Laocai -Hanoi (soft sleeper with air-conditioning, cabin of 04 berth)
- Transport by private car as the tour program
- Security services
- Private Boat trip on Chay River
Excludes:
- Travel 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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