Sapa Trekking 5 days 6 nights, travel by train, visiting Ban Ho, Thanh Phu village, Lao Chai Ta Van villages, homestay for life experience

Destinations:

• Food (All meals on the tour),
• 1 local beer or soft drink at every lunch and dinner,
• English-speaking guide
• Entrance fees
• Accommodation (Hotel and home-stay)
• Train tickets 2 ways  Hanoi-Laocai -Hanoi  (soft sleeper with air-conditioning)
• Transport by private jeep or minibus as tour program.

Tour excludes

• Insurance
• Drinks
• Phone calls and other private expenses

Notes: Advised to take good walking shoes, raincoats, jackets, torch, insect repellent and sunscreen...  

Sapa Market

Itenerary:

Day 1 : Get started:

Sapa trekking tour's taxi take you to Hanoi Railway Station for the night train at at 9:30 PM to get to Laocai Station. Sleep on the train.

Day 2 :  Laocai -Sapa - Laochai - Tavan  ( 4 hours trekking, 12 km, 3 villages )

Picked up at Laocai Railway station early in the morning by bus. Arrive at Sapa round 8:00 AM. Breakfast and relax.. Walk around Sapa and then start from Sapa at 12:00 PM by jeep to visit a village of the Black H'mong (LaoChaiSan). Go though hillsides along MuongHoa river. Cross the river by a suspension bridge to reach LaoChai village. Take the paths across the paddy fields to get to the 3rd village of the Dzay minority (TaVan) and Stay the night at a Dzay family in this village. Picnic lunch on the way and dinner at the family.

Day 3 : TaVan -Ban Ho  (7 hours trekking, 18 km, 3 villages  )

Peach flower

Breakfast with the local family and then get to a village located at the foot of HoangLienSon range via bamboo forests. Visit a waterfall and a rattan bridge. After the village, get down to the river, cross it and keep going to SuPan village for 2 minorities - The H'mong and the Red Dzao. . Get off the road to go down hill to BanHo village. Overnight at Ban Ho with a Tay family who have houses on stilts. Picnic lunch on the way and dinner at the family.

Day 4 : BanHo -Thanh Phu ( 7 hours trekking, 15 km, 4 villages  )

Get up early in the morning for fresh air and peaceful daily life of the people. Breakfast and leave the village for a hard day. Walk uphill to a smallest and almost untouched village of the Red Dzao (Namtoong). Go further to another village on the same side of of the mountain range to see the XaPho ethnic group in NamKen. Get down to the river and go up to MiSon to visit the XaPho again. Spend the night in ThanhPhu village at a Tay family. Picnic lunch on the way and dinner with the local family.

Day 5 : Thanh Phu -  Sapa ( 12 km with 4 hours trekking and 23 km by jeep )

Rainbow

Breakfast at ThanhPhu village. Walk back to SuPan village where to take a jeep back to Sapa. On the way back, visit the ancient stone circle (stones decorated with ancient carvings which are said to have described the life of the people lost in the mists of prehistory) Check in hotel. Lunch at SuPan and dinner in Sapa.

Day 6 : Sapa - Laocai and back to Hanoi:

Breakfast, free to go around and explore the town . Lunch and check out the hotel. Leave sapa for laocai Station by bus in the afternoon. Dinner on the train to Hanoi and arrive in  Hanoi round 4:30 AM. The end of tour.