Night 1: Ha Noi Station – Lao Cai Station
8.30pm: Be escorted to Ha Noi Station by EHG’s staff. Overnight on train
Day 1 Sunday: Lao Cai – Bac Ha Market – Sa Pa(B/L)
6.00am: Arrive Lao Cai you will meet your local tour guide then enjoy breakfast. Leaving Sapa early in the morning, we drive to Bac Ha market (approximately 2.5 hours). Arriving at Bac Ha, we visit the big market and colorful ethnic people of the Flower H’mong, Phu La and Dao Tuyen minorities, who gather here to buy and sell their handicraft products. After spending the morning exploring the market, your lunch will be served at a local restaurant. After lunch we drive downhill to start a short walk to Trung Do Village which is home to the Tay minority. Here you can visit a traditional Tay house. We will then travel by boat through amazing countryside to Bao Nhai Village. Transfer you back to Sapa .
Overnight in the hotel at 3* hotel in Sapa
Day 2 Monday: Sa Pa – None Tourist Trek the dirt trails of Sapa, Less Travelled – Nam Cang – Nam Nhiu village -Sapa (B/L):
Enjoy your breakfast at the hotel before driving down to the lowest valley of Sa Pa at 9.00am, around 2 hours driving descending the Sa Pa valley, Along the way you have many chances to see breathtaking view of paddy terrace field and cornfield, where is the largest terrace paddy of Sa Pa District. Passing Ban Ho village. Your car ascend to My Son Village then Nam Cang Village, where are minorities people living such as Xa Pho, Red Zao, White H’mong Stopped by Nam Than Village, You can visit minority people house then You start to trek by suspension bridge, First impression is approaching small waterfall with breezy and cool, Along your trekking are many small waterfall like that, Furthermore is the most stunning view of lowest Valley, Constituted by paddy terraces and “Buffalo house on stilts” scattered on paddy terrace, More special is along your trekking you have chance to enjoin with forest song –“Bird singing”. After 2 hours trekking you will have lunch in a minority people house on stilts in Thanh Phu Village then transfer back to Sapa by viewing sun set on the mountainous.
Overnight in the hotel at 3* hotel in Sapa
Day 3: Tuesday: Sa Pa – Fansipan Mountain by Cable car – Lao Cai – Ha Noi (B/L)
Have breakfast in the hotel. You will take a car from Sa Pa at 9.00am to visit Fansipan, the highest peak of Indochina mountains. It normally takes people one or two days to reach the Peak of Fansipan Mountain on foot. However, you will take The three-rope cable car system which carry you from the bottom to the highest point of the mountain in 15-20 minutes. Fansipan cable car is kind of a modern three-wire cable in the world, the first time presence in Asia. Distance from the Muong Hoa Valley to the peak is 6,2km long, a total of 35 cabins, passing 6 main pillars, each pillar is away from each other 1 km.
From there, you can enjoy the scenery and magnificent views to Sapa and can admire views of Muong Hoa valley and Hoang Lien National Forest from above. also beautiful landscape of Lai Chau province. Then, you will be transferred back to Sapa. Late afternoon transport you back to Lao Cai station to catch the 9.10pm night train back to Ha Noi.
Day 4:
5.30am: Be picked up by EHG’s staff from Ha Noi Station to the hotel.
The tour ends.
