Sapa Hard Trekking One
Duration: 4 days/ 5 nights
Price from: $150
Category: Sapa Budget Tours
Description:
Three days
trekking from the centre of spectacular Muong Hoa valley up and down hills you
will challenge your feet with hard trekking while enjoying beauty of nature,
meeting and making acquaintance to tribal peoples from different ethnic groups
to enrich your knowledge with different culture and way of life. You also have
chance to experience peoples and especially their hospitality while staying two
nights in their homes.
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 : Lao Cai - Sapa - Ta Van -Seo Mi Ty
Pick up at Lao Cai station upon your early arrival for over an hour transfer uphill to Sapa by mini van with A/C. Freshen up and Breakfast before walking around the town centre and paying visit to the market. Back to our Sapa office for a short transfer southwards by jeep to Ta Van village of the Zay peoples where your trekking begins. The morning trek is really challenging because the path is tough and mostly uphill but you will enjoy many short breaks for resting. The scenery gets more beautiful and the view gets wider as after every hundred meter you walk. After a long break for Lunch, the trek gets easier and the trail winds its way through an area of the nature reservation. Enjoy your discovery of the wild nature before paying visit to an isolated village of the H’mong, watching everyday life activities before arriving to our camp site which is nearby a river away from the village. You may join your tour guide and porters putting up tents and prepare dinner or fancy a walk around to stretch the legs and discover wild life. Evening comes earlier than usual and everyone sit down near the fire for dinner and revise of what you got today.
• Breakfast and Lunch and Dinner included
• Accommodation: Homestay in Seo Mi Ty Village
Day
2 : Seo Mi Ty - Den Thang =
Ta Trung Ho
Breakfast
and follow a narrow trail sneaking through thick rainforest for a couple of
hours, crossing some old suspension bridges and then suddenly the view opens to
a wide valley with beautiful terraced of rice paddies in all shapes as you
approach to Den Thang village of Black Hmong by noon. Here you will drop in some
local homes and visit a school before sitting down for Lunch.
Afternoon trek becomes tougher on tinny footpath going up and down hills to Ta
Trung Ho village. Here you will, with your guide, spend the rest of the day
walking around the village, visiting homes, talking to the Red Zao people for
your discovery of a unique culture and way of life. The area is not visited by
tourists and outsiders till recently, so the people is little bit reserved but
hospitable and frank.
•
Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner included
• Accommodation: Homestay in Ta Trung Ho Village
Day 3 : Ta Trung Ho - Nam Toong - Ban Ho- Sapa
Saying good bye to our host, you are now on the path again, from the fringe of
the rain forest of the Hoang Lien Son mountain, ascending through forest and
terraced rice paddies and corn fields to Nam Toong, another village of Red Dao
and here lunch will be prepared in a local school. It is interesting to spend
time talking with the teachers and playing with children, teaching them some
English. They are very keen to learn new things.
Continue our trek in the afternoon descending to Ban Ho valley dominated by Tay
peoples. Crossing the river by suspension bridge you will walk through this
large and well organized village composed by over a hundred large wooden houses
built on stilts, enjoying your discovery of the Tay way of life as well as
making acquaintance with local peoples. Picked up and transfer by jeep to Sapa
late in the afternoon, check in your hotel and relaxed.
• Breakfast, Lunch included, Dinner on your own
• Accommodation: Basic hotel in Sapa
Day 4 : Sapa free day- Overnight train to Hanoi
Enjoy
the whole day to explore Sapa town on your own. 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, Lunch included. Dinner on your own
• Overnight stay on the train
Tour Price per person in US Dollars: Basing on bellow join group or private tour
Join Group: Not available
Private Tour:
Group size |
2 pax |
3-4 pax |
5-6 pax |
7-8 pax |
9-10 pax |
|
|
202 |
190 |
180 |
175 |
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 bed cabin with air-con
• Accommodation: 2 nights at village and 1 night at deluxe hotel in Sapa.
• 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.
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