Sapa, CanCau, BacHa Market (4nights,3 days)
On Friday. Hanoi - Laocai
21:00 pm Pick up at your hotel in Hanoi and transfer to Hanoi Railway Station for boarding to Laocai by Express Train. Overnight on the A/c soft sleeper Cabin. ( 4pax/cabin or 2pax/cabin on request )
Day 1 : (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 2: (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 3: ( Monday ) Sapa - Laocai - Hanoi ( B/L/D ) ( 4 hours trekking, 12 km, 2 villages)
Breakfast at the hotel. Get downhill and 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 to Sapa. then 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.
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Pick ups, transfer & sightseeing.
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Full meals as mentioned on the tour program as B = Breakfast, L = Lunch, D = Dinner.
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English/French - speaking guide
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Entrance fees
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2 night hotel accommodation in Twin Share basis.
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Train return tickets Hanoi - Laocai - Hanoi ( soft sleeper with air-conditioning )
Travel Insurance, drinks & other meals not mentioned in the program, personal costs
Please, contact with us if you upgrade Hotel with deluxe range and train with 2 pax/cabin
350 USD/ person (2 to 3 persons).
300 USD/ person (3 to 7 persons).
Single Supplement: US$ 160
We aslo offer the cheaper price with group tour ( Maximum: 6 peoples on Tour ), please contact with us !