Day 1 : ( Friday ) Hanoi -Laocai
21:
00 pm - Pick up at your hotel in Hanoi and transfer to Hanoi Railway
Station for boarding to Laocai by Tulico Express Train. Overnight on
the A/c soft sleeper cabin. ( 4pax/cabin or 2pax/cabin on request ). Day 2 : (Saturday) Arrival Laocai - Cancau market - Bacha ( B/L/D )
6
: 00 am - Arrive to Laocai train station. Welcome by your local guide
and driver. Picked up at Laocai Train Station to transfer to CanCau
market. It takes more than 2 hours to get to CanCau - 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 colorful costumes - different colors of the
mountains. They attend the market in the hope of finding "the other
halves of their lifestyle" and this is also the time for them to chat,
to exchange everything among different ethnic peoples through cups of
wine sold in the market.
Say goodbye to the market and transfer to BacHa. On the way, spend time
visiting a village of the Flower H'mong and then check in hotel in
BacHa. Free to explore the town. Dinner at the local restaurant.
Overnight at your proposed hotel in Bacha.
Day 3: (Sunday) Visit Bacha market - Sapa ( B/L/D )
Breakfast
at the hotel. Take a walk to BacHa market. Visit one village and an old
building called The H'mong king's house. Breakfast and the beginning of
the day on which you visit a big market filled with many different
hill-tribe peoples. This is the most colorful 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...
talking to 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 time visiting another village (BanPho village) Say
good bye to BacHa and get back to Sapa. On the way back, drop in to see
the Vietnamese and Chinese Harbour Mouth in LaoCai. Reach Sapa late in
the afternoon. Dinner at local restaurant. Overnight at your proposed
hotel in Sapa.
Day 4 : ( Monday ) Sapa - Laocai - Hanoi ( B/L/D ) ( 4 hours trekking, 12 km, 2 villages)
Breakfast
at the hotel. Get downhill by jeep to the valley then walk for 3
villages of the Black H'mong and the Dzay people. Lunch at a Dzay
family. Get up to the road for a jeep back to Sapa. then take jeep back
to Laocai Station for the night train to Hanoi. Dinner at local
restaurant. Overnight on the A/c soft sleeper Cabin. End of services