Locally colorful ethnic minority people and great hiking trails from one valley to another, in popular Sapa and Bac Ha mountain town, offering different tradition and magnificent landscapes. Join this trip with us to experience all the best Sapa and Bac Ha Market have to offer.

Day 1: Hanoi – Lao Cai (Night train)

Pm: 20h00: we pick you up from your hotel by private coach to Hanoi Railway Station to catch a night train to Lao Cai.

Day 2: Lao Cai - Sapa – Cat Cat - Sin Chai – Sapa (B, L, D)

Am:  6h00 – Arrival in Lao Cai Station, be picked up by your driver and join a bus transfer to Sapa Elegance Hotel. The stunning rice terraces along an hour ride uphill will slowly wake you up for breakfast in Sapa town.

9h00 – we start hiking down to the bottom of MuongHoa valley to visit Cat Cat Village of Black H’mong People, where you witness local daily life and enjoy spectacular views over the beautiful valley towards Fansipan - highest peak in Vietnam and Indochina. Keep hiking further to Sin Chai village (Black H’mong) to see people weaving, embroidering and dying their black outfits. We will see an interesting waterfall (quick swim is an optional choice) at the end of the hiking trails before returning to the town (12h00) for lunch at a local restaurant.

Pm:   After lunch, we climb up to well-known Sapa Garden to enjoy fascinating scenery over the French built Sapa town. Walking back to your hotel and relax at sunset time (16h00), or you can find some popular local food massage.

Dinner and overnight in Sapa Elegance hotel

Day 3: Sapa – Y Linh Ho – Lao Chai – Ta Van – Sapa (B, L)

Am:  Have breakfast in your hotel, and then we hike along a mountain loop, on another side of the town, down to Lao Chai village forstunning landscapes over the valley along the way. The good walk start from the main road down through the rice fields, passing by Lao Chai Bridge and reach a local family of Dzay people on Muong Hoa stream bank for lunch.

Pm:  Keep hiking through lush rice-terraces towards Lao Chai village to experience daily life and customs of Red Dao people in Ta Van village. You would love to have a quick visit with local families and learn about their traditional fiber processing. We would be picked up by a private car at the end of the village and return to your hotel (you can have shower at hotel).

Dinner and overnight at Sapa Elegance hotel

Day 4: Sapa – BacHa Sunday Market– LaoCai (B,L)

Am:  After your breakfast, we take you downhill toLao Cai City to head up to Bac Ha Town. The road wind through luxuriant mountains with stunning views of rice paddies stacked like mossy pancakes. Photo opportunities are abundant with water buffalos plowing through the rice fields, fleshy pigs grazing beneath wooden homes on stilts and ponds of ducks swimming in huddles.

We arrive in the country most colorful market of Bac Ha around 10h30, then what we see is a color of local culture of the Flower H'mong, Black Dzao, Tay and Nung Hill Tribes all gather for this important social and economic event. This is the best time to fill your bags with goodies and sample some of the exotic local food dishes as well as its well-knownlocal corn wine.

Pm: We will have lunch at a restaurant in Bac Ha Town, and then do an easy hike to Ban Pho village of Green H’mong. It would be a stretch of single-track that winds through plum gardens, rice fields and past the mud homes of the local inhabitants to reach a typical family to learn about their unique houses.

Afterward, we return to Lao Cai for your own dinner (you can have shower here) and catch a night train back to Hanoi. You will arrive in Hanoi around 5h00, we pick you up from Hanoi train station and transfer back to your hotel in the old quarter to have shower and breakfast. Trip ends.

Highlights:

Magnificent scenery of mountain, valleys and rice terraces
Minority villages and Bac Ha Market
Great hiking trails