Sapa Explorer and Remote Cao Son Market
Duration: 4 day / 5 nights
Price from: $217
Category: Traditional Minority Discovery Packages
Description : Walking to visit remotest villages, meeting tribal peoples at home, at work and joining them to enjoy their most exciting weekly event at market place, wandering the famous Sapa town and exploring its surrounding tribal villages…you will enjoy the stunning scenery of the mountainous region as well as discovering interesting culture of tribal peoples. It is also a good chance to see the contrast between a famous tourist destination and a really rural one.
ITINERARY
Night 1 (Monday Night) Take the overnight train from Hanoi to Lao Cai
Please, be ready at your hotel lobby at 20.00 for a short transfer to Hanoi
railways station for taking the overnight train (first class 4 beds cabin with
air-condition) which arrive in Lao Cai city, near the Chinese border next
morning.
Day 1 : (Tuesday) Lao Cai - Cao Son
Upon arrival to Lao
Cai station early morning, you will meet your local tour guide
and driver
and enjoy breakfast in a restaurant nearby. Freshen up
and heading along the road to Muong Khuong district which weaves its way
up and
down hills of the tea plantation
and pine trees. It gets wilder
and greener with thick forest
and small tribal villages scattering isolated on slopes of the mountains
as you get close to Cao Son Commune. You will enjoy much of the scenery which is
marvelous
and changes very fast after every bend. Arriving in Cao Son almost at
noon, checking in the Lodge where you will stay overnight, take a rest or wandering
around breathing fresh air.
Afternoon is for walking to explore tribal villages nearby for a discovery of
tribal culture, custom
and self subsidiary way of life of different ethnic minorities.
• Breakfast, Lunch
and Dinner included
• Accommodation: Cao Son Ecolodge
Day 2 : (Wednesday) Cao Son Market - Sapa
Today
is the
market day in Cao Son
and you will spend the whole morning to take part in this weekly event.
The village seems to wake up after a week staying peacefully. People from
different tribal groups such as H’mong, Zao, Nung, Pa Di, Tu Di…wearing their
traditional costumes converge to the
market place on foot, motorcycles
and horses. Many comes from remote villages, near the border
and
have to start their journey even from midnight. Joining the
market, you will soon get the feeling of local, cheerful faces every
where. Commodities for sale at the
market is rich, from home produces such as fruit, vegetable, chili,
ginger, smelled medicinal herbs, mushroom, bamboo shoot, corn wine, local handicraft,
animals includes pigs, chicken, dogs, cats... to farming tools as hoes, plough
shares, spades, knives…
You are leaving the
market
and
Cao Son after Lunch for a drive to Lao Cai
and then uphill to
Sapa through a scenic region. Arriving in
Sapa at your hotel in the afternoon
and
the rest of the day is set free for you to wander
around charming
Sapa town.
• Breakfast and Lunch included, Dinner on your own
• Accommodation: Hotel in Sapa
Day 3 : (Thursday) Sapa Tribal Village walk to Ma Tra & Ta Phin
Lying
on the south of Sa Pa town, this vast valley composes of 3 chambers surrounded
by high mountains with thick forest at the top
and terraced rice paddies from lower slopes stretching to the bottom. It
is home to the Black H’mong
and the Red Zao ethnic minority who live in wooden houses scattering here
and there.
Starting from Sa Pa with your guide, you will follow a trail running through
fruit and
orchard gardens, lush pine forests to a Black Hmong ethnic minority
village named Matra, isolated away from the civilization. Chickens, water
buffalos, pot – belly pigs
and piggy everywhere, some locals will be happy to invite us to their
home which offers chances to see their dwellings, weavings on belly looms to
makes traditional costumes out of hemp fiber…Our path weaves itself up
and down hills, through valleys with terraced rice fields which create
spectacular landscapes.
After picnic Lunch, we get to Ta Phin Commune where the Black H’mong
and the Red Zao live together. It is very interesting to realize culture
assimilation: Which can be mixed, which can not! At the end of the footpath, our
Jeep is waiting for us for the return journey to
Sapa.
• Breakfast and Lunch included, Dinner on your own
• Accommodation: Hotel in Sapa
Day 4: (Friday) Visit Lao Chai & Ta Van Village - Overnight Train to Hanoi
Today
morning, you will explore the spectacular Muong Hoa. A Jeep will take us out of
the town, following the only road built on the side of a mountain range, looking
down the valley, over viewing magnificent landscapes
composed of high mountains, deep valleys,
and stream of water winding, waterfalls
and terraced rice paddies…walking trail can be seen clearly from the road
winding up
and down hills on the other side of Muong Hoa River to connect village to
villages…
Our suggested walk starts from Lao Chai village of the H’mong along the river to
Ta Van, the Zay village. Our Jeep will pick us up at Ta Van Bridge
and drive back to Sa Pa at noon.
Afternoon is at your leisure for wandering
Sa Pa town
and
market until late afternoon when transfer down hill to Lao Cai station
for taking the overnight train back. Trip ends when arrives in Hanoi early next
morning on Saturday at about 6:00 am.
• Breakfast and Lunch included, Dinner on your own
• Overnight train in first class 4 beds cabin with air-condition
Tour Price per person in US Dollars
Group size | 2 pax | 3-6 pax | 7-10 pax | Single Surchage |
Superior Hotel | 297 | 264 | 217 | 38 |
Deluxe Hotel | 323 | 290 | 240 | 58 |
2 beds cabin extra | 65 | 65 | 65 |
Tour price includes
•
Accommodation: 1 night in Cao Son Lodge, 2 nights hotel in Sa Pa basing on 2
occupations.
• Transfer with private car as indicated in day by day itinerary.
• Return overnight train deluxe class in 4 berth cabin with air-conditioning.
• All meals as listed in day by day itinerary.
• Visiting fee, tax
and service charge.
• Local English speaking tour guide.
Tour price excludes
•
Meals not indicated in day by day itinerary.
• Drinks
and personal expenses.
Please contact us for the best price !
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