Night 1

Hanoi – Overnight on train to Lao Cai

Include:

Train tickets: (A/C 4 soft berth cabin)

Tour guide

At 08.00PM, Paradise Travel tour guide will pick you up at hotel lobby, drive to the Hanoi railway station for night train to Sapa. Overnight on train.

Day 1 

Lao Cai – Sapa – Yling Ho – Lao Chai San – Lao Chai – Ta Van (B, L, D)

Include:

Home stay

Transportation from Lao Cai

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Tour guide

Entrance fees  

Train arrives at Laocai Railway Station at 06.00 am, transferred to Sapa by car. Have breakfast in the local restaurant. Relax.

At 10.00 am we start trekking.  The first part is on the road but we soon turn to the right and walk on a small path down the valley to the Muong Hoa River and from here to the Black H’mong village Lao Chai. Black H’mong is one of the biggest minority groups in the Sapa area. They are proud of their culture and keep their traditions and way of living. They have their own language and wear traditional indigo blue clothing.  After this you continue to Ta Van village (1.200 m) to visit Zay people. Zay is a fairly small minority group of about 38.000 people who live mainly in the mountains in Northwest Vietnam. The development has meant that some of their old customs have been lost but many women still wear traditional shirts with a purple, blue or green color. The Zay houses are build in wood and bamboo with clay floor. We stay overnight with a local family in Ta Van and have our dinner here.

Trekking distance: 15 km 

Day 2

Ta Van – Giang Ta Chai – Ban Ho (B, L, D)

Include:

Home stay

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Tour guide

Entrance fees

After the breakfast we continue to visit Red Dao people at Giang Ta Chai where we also see a waterfall. The Red Dao women have very colorful red embroideries and coins on their clothing. On their head they wear a red scarf. Some of the women have shaved off their eyebrows because of a nice Red Zao’ Legend.

We continue along small paths in the rice fields, cross the Muong Hoa River and arrive to the Tay village Ban Ho (900 m). Tay is the most populous of the hill tribes. Because of the development and adaptation to the Vietnamese society some of them have started wearing Vietnamese clothing. But most women still wear the traditional checkered headscarf. We stay overnight in a wooden Tay stilt house. If we reach Ban Ho in the early afternoon you will have time to swim in a nearby river. In the evening we have dinner with the Tay family.

Trekking distance: 25 km

Day 3

Ban Ho – Sapa – Lao Cai – Night on train(B, L)

Include:

Train tickets: (A/C 4 soft berth cabin)

Transportation

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Tour guide

Entrance fees

After breakfast you trek up to Ban Den place (3 km). From here you will be picked up and transferred back to Sapa. In the afternoon you will have time to experience the colourful Sapa market where women from different ethnic minority groups come into town to sell their products, relax before turn back to Laocai railways station by bus for night train back to Hanoi. Stay overnight on train

Day 4

Hanoi arrival

Train arrival around 04.30 am; tour finish at railway station. Turn back to your hotel on your own

Hotel

2 star

3 star

4 star

5 star

Sapa

Home stay

Home stay

Home stay

Home stay

Train

Tulico, Royal

Tulico, Royal, Friendly, Livitrans

Fanxipan Express

Victoria Express

Pax

2 pax

3 – 4 pax

5 – 8 pax

9 – 12  pax

Vehicle

4 seat

7 seat

16 seat

24 seat

Group

2 pax

3 pax

4 pax

5-6 pax

7-8 pax

9-10 pax

11~12 pax

2 star

195

170

160

150

140

135

130

3 star

210

185

175

165

155

150

145

4 star

225

200

190

180

170

165

160

5 star

370

350

330

320

310

305

300