Day 1: ( Saturday ) 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: (Sunday) Sapa - Laochai Village - TaVan Village ( B, L , D )
6
: 00 am - Arrive to Laocai train station. Welcome by your local guide
and driver. Transfer to your Sapa for breakfast & relax. Breakfast
and shower. Start from Sapa at 10:00 AM by jeep and then get down to a
valley, visit an H'mong village and the hydroelectric power station
built by the French. Take a small path to go and visit other 2 villages
of the H'mong and the Dzay people (LaoChai and TaVan village). Stay in
TaVan at a Dzay family. Picnic lunch on the way and dinner at the
family. Overnight at TaVan village. ( 6 hours trekking, 16 km, 3
villages ).
Day 3: (Monday) TaVan Village - Giang Ta Chai Village -Sapa ( B, L , D )
Breakfast
at the home-stay, take the road to GiangTaChai village to see the Red
Dzao people via the paths through terraces and bamboo forests. Visit a
waterfall, a suspension bridge. Picnic lunch and cross the river. Visit
an H'mong village up to the mountain. Take a jeep back to Sapa. Visit
the ancient stone circle on the way back. Check in hotel. Dinner at
local restaurant. Overnight at your proposed hotel in Sapa. ( 5 hours
trekking, 14 km, 2 villages. )
Day 4: (Tuesday) Sapa - CocLy Market - Boat Trip on Chay River ( B, L , D )
Breakfast
at the hotel. 7 : 00 am depart for CocLy market which is situated far
from Sapa. Enjoy the peaceful life of different minority peoples (
Flower H'mong, Black Dzao, Tay, Dzay). The market is the chance for the
minorities to meet and share joy and sorrows after the crops, to
exchange one another's experience. Say goodbye to the market and get
down onto a boat along Chay river. You are bound to feel great and find
yourselves smaller among high Rock Mountains and to be surprised at
white and breathtaking waterfalls. Get off the boat to visit a village
of the Tay Minority ( TrungDo village) by the river. After the boat
trip, visit a small town - BaoNhai and 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.