Destinations: Hanoi – Sapa – Y Linh Ho Village – Lao Chai Village – Ta Van Village – Giang Ta Chai Village – Supan Village
COST : $153 /pax
Duration: 2 days / 1 night – Type: group tour
Departure: Daily from Hanoi (enter the arrival date in Sapa on booking form)
Homestay in Sapa is great option for all people who want to experiences about the life style of Ethnic people life leaving.
Trip Highlights:
- 21 KM walking and trekking to visit ethnic villages in Sapa: Y Linh Ho, Lao Chai, Ta Van, Giang Ta Chai, Su Pan.
- Friendly talk & discover the daily life of local people with Dzay & Red Dao Minority.
- Stay in the Dzay Local House.
Night train to Sapa
You will transfer to Hanoi Train Station from your hotel in Hanoi.Over night train to Sapa. It takes about 9 hours to go from Hanoi to Sapa by train.
Meals: NA
Accommodation: 4 Soft sleeper A/C wooden cabin (sharing cabin)
Day 1 : Sapa – Y Linh Ho – Lao Chai – Ta Van
Arrive Lao Cai Train Station around 6:00 AMWe will take 1hr bus ride uphill to the beautiful town of Sapa. The ride gives you a glimpse of the stunning vistas and impressive rice terraces.
Arrive Sapa town, have breakfast & fresh up for a while.
After that take a 6 km walking down to the South East of Sapa along the side of Muong Hoa valley to Y Linh Ho Village of the Black H’mong. The beauty of Y Linh Ho valley is adorned with green mixed gold of terraced rice field and corn field, imposing mountain coved by bushy plants and the fabulous white mixed blue clouds on sky.
Continue to get over 3km for trekking down to Lao Chai Village of H’mong people. To go inside the village, tourists trek through a small bridge led to Muong Hoa valley. There are some traditional houses of H’Mong people, streams flow tranquilly mixed with the smell of flowers and fields, all of them make a relaxed feeling for the new comers.
After lunch time at a local family in Lao Chai or in a drink 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.
Trekking: 12 KM of trekking.
Meals: Breakfast/Picnic Lunch/Dinner
Accommodation: Home-stay at the Dzay local house.
Day 2 : Ta Van – Giang Ta Chai – Su Pan – Sapa
8 KM walking to visit 2 villages of the red Dzao, the H’mong (Giang Ta Chai & Su Pan).Opposite to Muong Hoa stream, Giang Ta Chai lies silently by a majestic waterfall and is hidden by old trees and bamboo groves. Red Dao is the second biggest group of minority people in Sapa in Vietnam. Coming to the village, tourists will be charmed immediately with the out-standing traditional costumes of the local people; and most of those clothes are made from natural materials
Supan includes 4 small hamlets of the Black H’mong and Red Zao. Because of a poor village, here you do not see the scenery or sound of commercialization like some other villages. The simplicity of ethnic inhabitants and natural sights are still remained. Most of Supan’s people gain their living based on agriculture.
Visit a beautiful waterfall and rattan bridge.
After visit Giang Ta Chai village and Supan village, head back to the main road to catch the jeep and return to Sapa.
Around 18:00 Share tourist bus to Lao cai Station.
Trekking: 8 KM of trekking, 10 KM of driving back to Sapa.
Meals: Breakfast/Picnic Lunch
Accommodation: 4 Soft sleeper A/C wooden cabin (sharing cabin)
Hanoi arrival
Arrive in Hanoi Station at around 5h30.
Our tour ends
You take taxi back hotel by your own.
Meals: NA
Accommodation: NA
Important Notes:
- PROGRAMS & SCHEDULES SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT PRIOR NOTICE
- Warning: There is some cheating at Lao Cai train station that some guys try to see your travel voucher, then they say, they are looking for you, invite you to the bus, then force you to pay at $30 for a seat on the bus to Sapa. So please do not pay for any body here, and be aware of this problem.
