Sapa Medium Trek Two
Duration: 4 days / 5 nights
Price from: $140
Category: Sapa Budget Tours
Description : Taking this 4 days medium trekking trip you will enjoy hiking from 6 to 7 hours every day, follow foot paths up and down mountains, through forest, terraced rice paddies, crossing river and water streams by suspension bridges… from village to village of different ethnic minorities including H’mong, Zao, Zay, Tay… paying visit to local homes, witnessing daily life activities and especially village home staying will bring the interesting insight of local life. The last day is set for your own plan in Sapa to enjoy your self relaxing and wandering the charms of this old French hill station.
Itinerary
Night
1: Take overnight train from Hanoi to Lao Cai
Be ready at your hotel lobby at 8:00 p.m, our tour guide and driver will meet
and pick you up for a short transfer to Hanoi Station
to take the overnight train to Lao Cai City.
• Overnight on the train
Day 1 : Sapa - Y Linh Ho - Lao Chai - Ta Van - Homestay
Picked
up at Lao Cai Station upon
your early arrival for over an hour drive uphill in a shared mini van to
Sapa. After freshen up and Breakfast in
a local restaurant, transfer 6km along
the main road to a beautiful spot where your village
trek begins.
This part offers spectacular scenery of the highest part of Hoang Lien Son
mountain range and in a nice day, Fansipan Peak can be seen. Crossing the
river by a suspension bridge you will
challenge your feet uphill to Y Linh Ho village. Here you will pay visiting to
some H’mong families, watching them
doing their daily works. After picnic Lunch, the trail continues
up and down hill for about 2 hours as you reach to Lao Chai, a large village of
the H’mong and then following the river
bank to Ta Van of the Zay people, paying visiting to local homes, village
schools… you will enjoy much your cultural discovery of local ethnic peoples as
well as breathtaking scenery of the Muong
Hoa Valley. Tonight you will enjoy a
home stay in Ta Van Village for an unique life experience.
• Breakfast and Lunch and Dinner included
• Accommodation: Homestay in Ta Van Village
Day 2 : Ta Van - Giang Ta Chai - Su Pan - Ban Ho :
Leaving Ta Van village after Breakfast and following the foot path uphill, you will pass through impressive terraced rice paddies on the hill slopes before getting through a bamboo forest, a huge waterfall to Giang Ta Chai village of the Red Zao peoples. Walking around the village you will meet many women with their embroidery work to make their traditional dresses, occasionally you can see the blacksmiths making farming tools and even hunting riffles. Passing the Muong Hoa river again and then trek uphill to Su Pan village passing the rocks field with unique carving which is believed to be the messages of the ancient peoples. In this village you will see the special technique to build houses on the steep rocky land. From Su Pan trekking downhill for an hour, Ban Ho valley will opens wide in your sight. Arriving to Ban Ho of the Tay late in the afternoon, check in the spacious local house built on stilts for Dinner and Home stay.
• Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner included
• Accommodation: Homestay in Ban Ho Village
Day
3 : Ban Ho- Nam Toong
- Sapa
After Breakfast we spend an hours walking to explore Ban Ho, a large village of the Tay peoples who live on spacious wooden houses built on stilts and very well organized before ascending uphill to Nam Toong village of the Red Zao. The trail of this part is really steep but the higher you reach to, the more stunning scenery will open in your sight. The village locates on the top of a hill and almost isolated and the houses are rudimentary but the peoples are very welcoming. After visiting Nam Toong, you will take another trail back to Ban Ho village an then pick up for transferring back to Sapa by Jeep.
• Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner included
• Accommodation: Basic hotel in Sapa
Day 4 : Sapa relaxing day - Night train to Hanoi
Today is set free for your own plan to explore Sapa
town. Our recommend is to take a walk to Sapa
market, where you can meet tribal ethnic peoples such as Black H’mong,
Red Zao, Zay… from nearby villages come every day selling their farming,
gathering products: Vegetable, bamboo shoot, mushroom… and of course handicrafts
for souvenir. Continue walking the steps
from the market to the church and then onto
the top of Ham Rong Mountain where you
can visit an orchid garden and a small museum about ethnic peoples of the
Northwest.
Picked up in the afternoon at about
16.00 by mini bus for a transfer downhill to Lao Cai station
for taking the night train back to Hanoi which arrive early next morning
and your trip ends.
• Breakfast included • Overnight stay on the train
Tour Price per person in US Dollars: Basing on bellow join group or private tour
Join Group: USD 140 (group maximum 10 persons)
Private Tour:
Group size |
2 pax |
3-4 pax |
5-6 pax |
7-8 pax |
9-10 pax |
|
|
190 |
180 |
170 |
160 |
150 |
|
Tour price includes
•
Transfer from Lao Cai station to Sapa
and back in shared mini bus with air-con
• Return overnight train basing on first
class 4 berth cabin with air-con
• Accommodation: 1 night in deluxe hotel
in Sapa and 1 night at village.
• All meals as mentioned
on above itinerary.
• Sightseeing fee, tax and services charge.
• Local English speaking tour guide.
Tour price excludes
•
Meals not indicated on the itinerary.
• Drinks and Personal expenses.
Gallery
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