Sapa 2 Days Minority Trek - 1 night village stay

Departure: Every evening from Hanoi

Pick up: At your hotel in Hanoi

Grade: Easy

Description

After the overnight train journey from Hanoi, you will be exploring Sapa and its beautifulsouthern valley for two days with one night home stay in Ta Van village of the Zay minoritypeoples. The trek from Sapa along Muong Hoa River, passing villages of the H'mong, Zay andZao will offers spectacular scenery and a lot opportunities to get intact with local ethnic peoplesfor your new cultures discovery.

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Sapa 2 Days Minority Trek - 1 night village stay

Night 1: Take overnight train from Hanoi to Lao Cai

Be ready at your hotel lobby at 8:00 p.m, our tour guide and driver will meet and pick you up fora short transfer to Hanoi Station to take the overnight train to Lao Cai City.

• Overnight on the train

Day 1: Lao Cai - Sapa - Y Linh Ho - Lao Chai - Ta Van

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Sapa 2 Days Minority Trek - 1 night village stay

Picked up at Lao Cai Station upon your early arrival for over an hour drive uphill in a sharedmini van to Sapa. After freshen up and Breakfast in a local restaurant you will enjoy a free walkaround this charming town, paying visit to Sapa market and the old cathedral where you canmeet a lot of local ethnic minority peoples such as Black H'mong and Red Zao wearing theirtraditional colorful dresses selling their farming and gathering products and handicrafts forsouvenir. Back to our Sapa office at about 10.30 and begin your exploration trip to Muong Hoavalley. You will follow the main road heading south for about an hour before turning right to afoot path down hill to Muong Hoa Valley. This part offers spectacular scenery of the highest partof Hoang Lien Son mountain range and in a nice day, Fansipan Peak can be seen. Crossing theriver by a suspension bridge you will challenge your feet uphill to Y Linh Ho village. Here youwill pay visiting to some H'mong families, watching them doing their daily works. After picnicLunch, the trail continues up and down hill for about 2 hours as you reach to Lao Chai, a largevillage of the H'mong and then following the river bank to Ta Van of the Zay people. Payingvisiting to local homes, village schools... you will enjoy much your cultural discovery of localethnic peoples as well as breathtaking scenery of the Muong Hoa Valley. Settle down in Ta Vanvillage for an overnight home stay.

• Breakfast and Lunch and Dinner included

• Accommodation: Homestay in Ta Van Village

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Sapa 2 Days Minority Trek - 1 night village stay

Day 2: Ta Van - Giang Ta Chai - Hau Thao - Sapa - Overnight train to Hanoi

Leaving Ta Van village after Breakfast, you will take the trail uphill, passing fascinating terracedrice field and some small hamlets of the H'mong before getting through a bamboo forest to awaterfall, enjoy a break for magnificent scenery and then continue walking for half an hour toGiang Ta Chai village of the Red Zao peoples which sits on the top of a hill and looks downMuong Hoa river. After spending time visiting the village, making friend with the Zao andexperiencing the hospitality you will cross the river by another suspension bridge and then uphillagain to Hau Thao village where you will pay visiting to a local handicraft center where H'mongand Zao women gather for exchanging experience and skill of making handicrafts. A late Lunchwill be prepare here nearby this center and then you have time relaxing as well as gettingacquaintance with local school boys, girls and their teachers as well.

Later a short drive will take you back to Sapa, take a shower and enjoy about two hours freetime in Sapa before transfer down hill to Lao Cai station to take the overnight train back toHanoi, which arrives early next morning and the trip ends.

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Sapa 2 Days Minority Trek - 1 night village stay

• Breakfast & Picnic Lunch included, Dinner on your own

• Overnight on the train

Tour price includes

• Transfer from Lao Cai station to Sapa and back in shared mini bus with air-con

• Return overnight train basing on first class 4 bed shared cabin with air-con

• Accommodation: 1 night in Ta Van Village.

• All meals as mentioned on above itinerary.

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Sapa 2 Days Minority Trek - 1 night village stay

• Sightseeing fee, tax and services charge.

• Local English speaking tour guide.

Tour price excludes

• Meals not indicated on the itinerary.

• Drinks and Personal expenses.

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Sapa 2 Days Minority Trek - 1 night village stay

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