Night 1: Hanoi - Lao Cai
Vietnam Bamboo Travel's guide will pick you up from your hotel to Hanoi Railway Station for the night train to get to Lao Cai Station. Sleep on the train (4 people/cabin or 2 people/cabin on request).
Day 1: Lao Cai - Sapa - Lao Chai - Ta Van (4 hours trekking, 14 km, 2 villages)
Picked up at Laocai Station early in the morning by our bus. Arrive at Sapa round 8: 00 AM; Breakfast start at 10h30am to get to Lao Chai village. Enjoy the overall pictures of the villages among terraces. Visit the H'mong living in wooden and bamboo houses. Continue going to Ta Van village to visit the Dzay minority. Picnic lunch on the way and dinner and overnight at the home-stay. Stay the night in Ta Van village at a Dzay family. (B, L, D)
Day 2: Ta Van Village - Ban Ho (7 hours trekking, 18 km, 3 villages)
Breakfast with the local family and then get to a village located at the foot of Hoang Lien Son range via bamboo forests. Visit a waterfall and a rattan bridge. After visitting Giang ta chai village, get down to the river, cross it and keep going to Su Pan village for 2 minorities - The H'mong and the Red Dzao.Get off the road to go down hill to Ban Ho village. Picnic lunch on the way and dinner at the family.Overnight at Ban Ho with a Tay family who have houses on stilts. (B, L, D)
Day 3: Ban Ho - Thanh Phu (7 hours trekking, 15 km, 3 villages)
Get up early in the morning for fresh air and peaceful daily life of the people. Breakfast and leave the village for a hard day. Walk uphill to a smallest and almost untouched village of the Red Dzao (Namtoong). Go further to another village on the same side of of the mountain range to see the Xa Pho ethnic group in NamKen. Get down to the river and go up to Mi Son to visit the Xa Pho again. Spend the night in Thanh Phu village at a Tay family. Picnic lunch on the way and dinner with the local family. Overnight in homestay. (B, L, D)
Day 4: Thanh Phu - Sapa (12 km with 4 hours trekking and 23 km by jeep)
Breakfast at Thanh Phu village. Walk back to Su Pan village where Vietnam Bamboo Travel's jeep car take you back to Sapa. On the way back, visit the ancient stone circle (stones decorated with ancient carvings which are said to have described the life of the people lost in the mists of prehistory). Check in hotel. Lunch at Su Pan and dinner in Sapa. Overnight in hotel. (B, L, D)
Day 5: Cat Cat - Lao Cai and back to Hanoi
Breakfast, visit village of the black H'mong (Cat Cat), walk around visiting people in the village and the hydroelectric power station built by the French in the old days. Back town have lunch and check out hotel, free to explore the town until take bus to get to Laocai Station for the night train back to Hanoi.Overnight on the train. Arrive in Hanoi around 5.00 AM. The end of the tour. (B, L, D) |
