Sa Pa Trekking (3 days/ 4 nights)

Sa Pa Trekking 3 days/ 4 nights

(Hotel + Homestay)

Sapa or Tonkin Alp – An integration of rocky mountain, green jungles and home to diversified ethnic minorities comprising Tay, Day, red Dao, Black H’mong...

Situated at 1600m above sea level and 380km northwest of Hanoi, Sapa obtains ideal cool climate and immense pictures of terraced rice fields. Travel to Sapa not only for stunning landscape but also for visits to the home of colorful friendly minorities hidden.

The tour is from Hanoi, we will take a night sleeping train to  Lao Cai.

- 20:15 our tour guide will transfer you to Hanoi station for the train to Lao Cai.

Inclusive services: Tour guide, transfer and train ticket (Class: 4 soft berths in a cabin with A/C)

Day 01: Sa Pa Trekking to 4 villages - Ylinh Ho - Lao Chai - Ta Van – Giang Ta Chai village 

- 6-7 hrs trekking throughout 4 hamlets - visit 2 different kinds of minority.

- 05:15 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. 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 permit and meals (B + L + D)

Day 02 : Giang Ta Chai - Su Pan - Sa Pa

- 5 - 6 hrs 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 Hoang 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.

- Enjoy magnificent scenery of Ban Ho valley or visit some local houses of the Tay and then a standby car to return to Sapa.

- Check in hotel, free and easy in Sa Pa.

Inclusive services:Transfer, tour guide,Vista, Holiday or Panorama hotel***  and meals (B + L)

Day 03: 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 class) and meal (B + L)

Tour excludes: Pick up at Hanoi train station on the last day, all type of drinks, personal expenses, tip for tour guide.

Single room supplement in hotel: 30 USD