Destinations: Hanoi – Sapa – Can Cau Market – Bac Ha Market
cost : $241 /pax
Duration: 2 days / 1 night – Type: private tour
Departure: Daily from Hanoi (enter the arrival date in Sapa on booking form)
In this trip we have chance to visit Can Cau market on Saturday only. Can Cau Market is a small, but very colourful market, set in the mountains near the Chinese border.
BacHa is the biggest market in Sapa and open on Sunday only. The Sunday market in Bac Ha is where you’ll want to stock up on water buffalo, pigs and horses.
You will explore traditional market of the local tribal peoples including Flower H’mong, Black Zao, Phu La and Tay for the festive market activities where peoples in their best traditional costume gather every Saturday and Sunday for shopping and socializing. Explore this prospreous valley of Tay ethnic people, admire traditional houses in here.
Trip Highlights:
- Join in Special hill-tribe market, discover the daily life of Flower H’mong, Red Dzao people.
- Visit Can Cau and Bac Ha market.
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 L: (Saturday): CanCau – BacHa
Picked up at Laocai Train Station to transfer to Can Cau Market.It takes more than 2 hours reach Can Cau – 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 “another half of their life”. Moreover, this is also the time to chat while enjoying cups of wine sold in the market; or to exchange everything among different ethnic people.
Have lunch there.
Move to Bac Ha . On the way, spend time on visiting a village of the Flower H’mong and then check in hotel in Bac Ha.
Free to explore the town and have dinner in Bac Ha.
Meals: Breakfast/Picnic Lunch/Dinner
Accommodation: Hotel in Bac Ha
Day 2 :(Sunday) Visit BacHa market – Sapa Town or Lao Cai Station
Have breakfast and start the day by visiting a big market filled with many different hill-tribe peoples. People consider Bac Ha 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…
Visitors also can talk with 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, spend you time on visiting another village (BanPho village.) Then say good bye to BacHa and get back to Sapa. On the way back, drop in to see the Vietnamese and Chinese border in LaoCai. Reach Sapa late in the afternoon or back to Station for the train to Ha Noi.
Meals: Breakfast/Picnic Lunch/Dinner
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.
anntravle viet nam hopes to see you again!
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.
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