SAPA - CAN CAU & BAC HA MARKET (ESTSB06)
(Hanoi - Lao Cai - Can Cau Market - Bac Ha Market - Lao Cai - Hanoi)
02days / 1nights - Departure on Friday
(Hanoi - Lao Cai - Can Cau Market - Bac Ha Market - Lao Cai - Hanoi)
02days / 1nights - Departure on Friday
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| Night 01: | Ha Noi - Lao Cai - Night on train | ||||||||||||||||||
Pick you up at your hotel and transfer to railway station at around
20h15 for a night train at 20h40 to Lao Cai. Spend a night on train.
Services included: Transportation, tour guide and train ticket (Soft sleeper with A/C - Shared 4 beds cabin).  |
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| Day 01: | Lao Cai - Can Cau Market - Bac Ha (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner) - Saturday | ||||||||||||||||||
Upon arrival in Lao Cai Station, pick up and spend time for
breakfast before driving with more than 2 hours to get to CanCau - a
small market situated in a valley surrounded by mountains and only 7 km
from China. The market deeply shows the typical cultural features of the
minorities in remote mountainous areas in Vietnam. Further more, you
can enjoy seeing boys and girls in colourful costumes - different
colours of the mountains. They attend the market in the hope of finding
"the other halves of their lives" and this is also the time for them to
chat, to exchange everything among different ethnic people through cups
of wine sold in the market. Say goodbye to the market and transfer to
Bac Ha town for check in. Night in Bac Ha.
Services included: Transportation, tour guide, meals, entrance fee and hotel (Shared double/ twin room). |
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| Day 02: | Sapa - Bac Ha Market - Boat trip - Lao Cai - Hanoi (Breakfast, Lunch) | ||||||||||||||||||
Today, after the breakfast, enjoy a walk to Bac Ha market. Visit
one village and an old building called The H'mong king's house.
Breakfast and the beginning of the day on which you visit a big market
filled with many different hill-tribe peoples. This is the most
colourful market in North Vietnam. At the market, you have chance to
enjoy BacHa people's simple but unique kinds of food with special wines
made from rice, cassavas, corn and different sorts of fruits such as
plumps, apples, peaches... talking to the minorities through the guide's
interpretation. Leave the market for the H'mong King's house (King
Hoang A Tuong) built by the French colonists and the Chinese in 1920.
Return the town for lunch. In the afternoon, say good bye to BacHa and
drive to Trung Do village where the Tay ethnic minority people live, You
will have chance to do another hour walk to enjoy the landscape and get
to know the local lives here, After this village is about 1 hour on
boat along beautiful Chay river. On the way back Lao Cai for a rest
before drive to Lao Cai for the night train back Hanoi. Night on train.
At 05h00am in next day. Tour ends. Services included: Transportation, tour guide, meals, entrance fee and train ticket (Soft sleeper with A/C - Shared 4 beds cabin).  |
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| Tour Cost | In USD/ Person based on the categories below: (Applied up to 31 Dec 2013) - Email us to have quotation | ||||||||||||||||||
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Included:
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+ Transportation with air conditioner, English speaking guide on
tour; Meals mentioned above; Entrance fee for sites visited;
Accommodation in Bac Ha; Train tickets.
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Excluded:
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+ Drinks, telephone , laundry, personal expense, Airfare, Payment
services charge by credit card or bank transfer or other services not
mentioned in the itinerary
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