1 special markets & boat trip (CocLy), 7 villages (Y Linh Ho, Lao Chai, Ta Van, Giang Ta Chai, Su Pan, Ban Ho, Trung Do) and 9 different minority peoples (Black H’Mong, Dzay, Red Dao, Flower H’mong, Black Dzao, Tay, Dzay, HaNhi and Nung)
TOUR PROGRAM
Get started:Sapa Travel’s taxi take you
to Hanoi Railway Station for the night train at at 9:30 PM to get to Laocai
Station. Sleep on the train.
Day 1: (Saturday) Sapa-Y Linh Ho-Lao Chai San-Lao Chai-Ta Van. (O/N) (B,L/D) At 10 am we leave the hotel and start trekking. The first part is on the road but we soon turn to the right and walk on a small path down the valley to the Muong Hoa River and from here to the Black H’mong village Lao Chai. Black H’mong is one of the biggest minority groups in the Sapa area. They are proud of their culture and keep their traditions and way of living. They have their own language and wear traditional indigio blue clothing. After this you continue to Ta Van village (1.200 m) to visit Zay people. Zay is a fairly small minority group of about 38.000 people who live mainly in the mountains in Northwest Vietnam. The development has meant that some of their old customs have been lost but many women still wear traditional shirts with a purple, blue or green colour. The Zay houses are build of wood and bamboo with a clay floor. We stay overnight with a local family in Ta Van and have our dinner here.
Trekking distance: 13 km.
Day 2: (Sunday) Ta Van - Giang Ta chai- Ban Ho. (O/N) (B/L/D)
After the breakfast we continue to visit Red Dao people at Giang Ta Chai village where we also see a waterfall. The Red Dao women have very colourful red embroidery and coins on their clothing. On their head they wear a red scarf. We continue along small paths in the rice fields, cross the Muong Hoa River and arrive to the Tay village Ban Ho (900 m). Tay is the most populous of the hill tribes. Because of the development and adaptation to the Vietnamese society some of them have started wearing Vietnamese clothing. But most women still wear the traditional checkered headscarf. We stay overnight in e of the women have shaved off their eyebrows because of a nice Red Zao legend. a wooden Tay stilt house. If we reach Ban Ho in the early afternoon you will have time to swim in a nearby river. In the evening we have dinner with the Tay family.
Trekking distance: 18 km
Day 3: (Monday) Ban Ho-Sapa (B,L,D) After breakfast you trek up to Ban Den (3 km). From here you will be picked up and transferred back to Sapa. In the afternoon you will have time to experience the colourful Sapa market where women from different ethnic minority groups come into town to sell their products.O/N in Hotel.
Trekking distance: 3 km
Day 4: Coc Ly (Tue) Market (B/L,D)
Leave
from Sapa early at 7:00 AM for CocLy market which is situated far from Sapa.
Enjoy the peaceful life of 6 different minority peoples (Flower H’mong, Black
Dzao, Tay, Dzay, HaNhi and Nung). The market
is the chancefor 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 RockMountains
and to be surprised at white and breathtakingly waterfalls. The FairyCave
is located deeply in the rocks. 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 car back to Laocai Station for the night train to
Hanoi. Have
dinner before getting on the train. Arrive in Hanoi roughly 4:30 AM. The end of tour
TOUR PRICES
Please Contact Us For Detail Rate
INCLUDE
Food (All meals on the tour), English or french speaking guide, Entrance
fees, Security permits, Accommodation (Hotel and home-stay), Train return
tickets Hanoi-Laocai (soft sleeper with air-conditioning), Bus return tickets
Laocai –Sapa, car as the program, Boat service.
EXCLUDE
Insurance, Drinks, Phone calls and other private expenses, VAT
WHAT TO BRING
Advised to take good walking shoes, raincoats, jackets,
torch, insect repellent and Sunscreen...
