Coc Ly market- colourful market in Sapa
3days/ 4 nights
1night home stay-1night in the hotel.
Get started: transfer to Hanoi railway station for the night train at 9.30pm to get to Lao Cai station. Sleep on the train.
1st day( Sunday): 6hours trekking 17km, 3 villages.
Arrive in Lao Cai early in the morning. Bus to Sapa and have breakfast.
11:00 am by jeep to the first village of the black H’mong (CatCat), walk around visiting people in the village and the power station built by the French in the old days. Take the paths along the valleys between mountains 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.
2nd day( Monday): 5 hours trekking, 14km, 2 villages.
Get up early in the morning to enjoy the daily life of the ethnic minorities in the village. Breakfast and take the road to Giang Ta Chai village of the Red Dzao minority via the paths between terraces and through bamboo forests. Visit silver waterfall and suspension Rattan Bridge, visit the people in the village and then cross Muong Hoa River up to the mountain to visit the last village of the trek- Supan village of the H’mong. Get back to Sapa by jeep. On the way back enjoy visiting the ancient stone circle where stones are decorated with ancient carvings . Overnight in hotel
3rd day( Tuesday): Sapa- Lao Cai- Hanoi
Leave fromm Sapa early at 7:00am for CocLy market. The market is the chance for the minorities to meet and share joy and sorrows afer the crops, the 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 ( Trung Do village) by the river. After the boat trip, visit a small town- Bao Nhai and then take jeep back to Lao Cai train station for the night train to Hanoi. Arrive in Hanoi round 5.00am.
Price: $ 143USD/ person( min 2pax)
Tour includes:
Bus Lao Cai – Sapa- Lao Cai, Accomodation ( hotel and homestay)
Soft sleeper train ( reture tickets)
All meals on tour except for last dinner.
Entrance fees to the villages
English speaking guide
Jeep back as timetable – security services- boat trip
Excludes: insurance, Drinks, Phone calls and other private expenses, VAT.
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