SAPA MINORITY TREK - HOTEL - VILLAGE
(Hanoi - Lao Cai - Sapa - Cat Cat - Y Linh Ho - Lao Chai - Ta Van - Giang Ta Chai - Su Pan - Ma Tra - Ta Phin - Lao Cai - Hanoi )
03days / 2nights - Daily departure
(Hanoi - Lao Cai - Sapa - Cat Cat - Y Linh Ho - Lao Chai - Ta Van - Giang Ta Chai - Su Pan - Ma Tra - Ta Phin - Lao Cai - Hanoi )
03days / 2nights - Daily departure
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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 21h15 or 21h50 to Lao Cai. Spend a night on
train.
Services included: Transportation, guide and train ticket (Soft sleeper with A/C - Shared 4 beds cabin).  |
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| Day 01: | Lao Cai - Sapa - Cat Cat - Y Linh Ho - Lao Chai - Ta Van (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Upon arrival in Lao Cai station, pick up and drive to Sapa. After a
breakfast, we will enjoy a free walk around this charming town, paying
visit to Sapa market and the old cathedral where you can meet a lot of
local ethnic minority peoples such as Black H'mong and Red Zao wearing
their traditional colorful dresses selling their farming and gathering
products and handicrafts for souvenir. Back to our office at by 9:30 and
begin your exploration trip to Muong Hoa valley by driving 3 Km by Jeep
to Cat Cat village, We start our trek from this cultural village, here
is the home of Hmong, enjoy a water Fall, an old hydro power station
built by Friend.Teh next trek is for 12 km for visiting Y Linh Ho and
Lao Chai villages of the H'mong minority. after lunch at a local family
in Lao Chai or in a drinking shop nearby the river bank, we keep on
hiking to Ta Van village of the Dzay where we stay overnight in a local
family. Here you have opportunity to experience their daily life, work
and original custom. With your tour guide and the house owners, we will
set up a temporary cooking class to learn how to cook Vietnamese food
for dinner. Enjoying your dinner and getting to know local typical
traditional customs, cultural. Home-stay at the Dzay local house
Services included: Transportation, tour guide, meals, entrance fee and home stay. |
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| Day 02: | Ta Van - Giang Ta Chai - Su Pan - Sapa (Breakfast, Lunch) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
After the breakfast, We will leave Ta Van village with the trail
uphill, passing fascinating terraced rice field and some small hamlets
of the H'mong before getting through a bamboo forest to a waterfall,
enjoy a break for magnificent scenery and then continue walking for half
an hour to Giang Ta Chai village of the Red Zao peoples which sits on
the top of a hill and looks down Muong Hoa river. After spending time
visiting the village, making friend with the Zao and experiencing the
hospitality you will cross the river by another suspension bridge and
then uphill again to Su Pan village where you will pay visiting to a
local handicraft center where H'mong and Zao women gather for exchanging
experience and skill of making handicrafts. A late Lunch will be
prepare here nearby this center and then you have time relaxing as well
as getting acquaintance with local school boys, girls and their teachers
as well. Later a short drive will take you back to Sapa for check in.
Free at leisure and night in Sapa.
Services included: Transportation, tour guide, meals, entrance fee and hotel (Shared twin/double room).  |
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| Day 03: | Sapa - Full day trek to Matra - Ta Phin - Lao Cai - Hanoi (Breakfast, Lunch) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Today, we will take a car ride 5 km to the North East of Sapa. From
here, take off car to visit Matra village of the H'mong people. After
this village, do a 4-hour trek through the mountain and reach Taphin
village - a handi-craft traditional village of 2 different minorities:
the Red Dzao and the Black H'mong. Mountains surround the village and
the landscapes are beautiful. Stroll around the villages and visit some
hospitable Red Zao families to learn about their culture. Have picnic
lunch at village. In the afternoon, the car waits for you and takes you
back to Sapa for a rest before driving to Lao Cai station for a night
train back Hanoi. Night on train.
At 05h00am in next day, Tour ends. Services included: Transportation, tour guide, meals, entrance fee and train tickets (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) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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; 1 night at
Village and 1 night at hotel in Sapa; 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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