Sa Pa hard trekking 4 days/5 nights
(02 nights in homestay + 01 night in hotel)
Challenge on your feet to discover the unexplored areas.
Hanoi – Lao Cai by night train
20:15 our tour guide will transfer you to Hanoi station for the 21h15 train to Lao Cai
Inclusive services: Transfer and train ticket (Train type: 4 soft berths in a cabin with A/C)
Day 01: Sa Pa Trekking to 4 villages: Ylinh Ho - Lao Chai - Ta Van – Cau May
- 6-7 hrs trekking throughout 4 hamlets - visit 2 different kinds of minority.
- 05h15 you will arrive at the last arrival station – Lao Cai station. Picked up and drive up to Sapa. First of all, get shower, luggage store and then enjoy breakfast.
- Trek down to YlinhHo and Lao Chai village of the black H’mong people.
- After a picnic lunch, keep on alongside Muong Hoa stream, over suspension bridges to Ta Van village of the Dzay people.
- Keep trekking to Cau May (Rattan Suspension bridge) - Giang Ta Chai I. Visit and stay overnight with a local family of the Dzay minority
with your tour guide and the house owners, we will set up a temporary cooking class to learn how to cook Vietnamese food for dinner.
- Enjoying your dinner and getting to know local typical traditional customs, cultural….
Inclusive services: Transfer, tour guide, home-stay in Cay May and meals (B + L + D)
Day 02: Cau May - Giang Ta Chai - Su Pan – Thank Kim - Thanh Phu
- 6- 7hrs trekking with surprises at what you have never seen before
- In the early morning you will be sure to be woken up by the households but lucky to see how is their daily life for a new day coming.
- Enjoy some pancakes made by your tour guide’s skillful hands.
- Start a new trek into Hoan Lien Son National Park by more stunning landscapes and other ethnic minority villages dotted further your eyes sigh. Visit Giang Ta Chai village of the Red Dao minority and then continue that trail to Su Pan village for lunch.
- After lunch, trek down to Thanh Kim village and then Thanh Phu for overnight
Inclusive services: Tour guide, homestay in Thanh Phu and meals (B + L + D)
Day 03: Thanh Phu – My Son (Xa Pho) – Up to Nam Toong (Red Dzao) – Ban Ho (Tay) – Su Pan - Sa Pa
- 6 – 7 hrs trekking. Challenge on your feet to discover the unexplored areas.
- After breakfast, a new trek for us throughout Thanh Phu to My Son, here you will visit, meet and talk with the Xa Pho minority, the least hill tribe of Sa Pa.
- Learn more about the Xa Pho group and then up to Nam Toong, a beautiful village of the red Dzap still hidden and really less explored by tourist.
- Reach Ban Ho village of the Tay minority, here you can refresh up by swimming at the Lavie waterfall.
- After lunch in Ban Ho, we continue our trek up to lower Su Pan and our standby car will take us to Sa Pa
- Check in hotel for relaxation.
- Free time and overnight in Sa Pa.
Inclusive services: Transfer, tour guide, hotel*** and meal (B + L)
Day 04: Sa Pa - Sa Xeng - Hau Thao village - Ha Noi by Overnight train
- Breakfast at the hotel.
- 08:30 car takes you to Sa Xeng village for a trek up hill to Hau Thao of the Black H'Mong minority, the village is still less travelled. We will visit one of the local family to get to know more their culture and daily life.
- Enjoy lunch in Hau Thao.
PM
- Keep trekking further and then car to take you back to hotel.
- Shower and pack up.
- Drive to Lao Cai for the train to Ha Noi.
Inclusive services: Tour guide, transfer, entrance fee, train ticket (same type) and meal (B + L)
