Sapa Market & Chay River Tour (4 days)
Price on request
Region: Vietnam
Activities: Sight-seeing Tour
Dates: Year Round
Duration: 4 days
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Itinerary
Overview:
Welcome to Vietnam. From Hanoi Train Station we will depart for an overnight trip to Lao Cai (Sapa). from Lao Chai village you will trek downhill through the Muong Hoa Valley, passing through rice paddies and small hamlets.
The following morning you will continue the trek towards the Red Dao people’s Giang Ta Chai Village home to see a beautiful waterfall. Ending at Supan village where you will meet the transfer back to Sapa.
The next day you leave early for the Coc Ly market. After leaving the market, you will board a boat along the Chay River where colossal rock mountains and breathtaking waterfalls abound to lift your spirits. At the end of the day you will take a car back to the Lao Cai Station and board the night train back to Hanoi City.
The tour will finish with your arrival into Hanoi’s Train Station where our private car will pick you up and transfer you to your hotel.
More details can be found in the day-to-day itinerary.
Day 1:
Sapa – Trek to visit Lào Cai – Ta van (B,L,D)
You will arrive at Lào Cai station around 5:30AM, where a Vietnam To Travel affiliate will pick you up and transfer you to Sapa. (Before the trip starts you will have breakfast at a local restaurant.) From Sapa we will drive to the Lào Cai village and start trekking downhill through the Muong Hoa Valley. Passing through rice paddies and small hamlets, you will learn all about the life of hill tribes in the area and even have a chance to speak with some locals.
We will have a picnic lunch during the trek with a local family, and after lunch will continue trekking through villages and rice terraced fields to Ta Van Village Settled by the Dzay ethnic peoples. This area is known to be the most beautiful village in the entire area. We will have dinner and spend the night at a local family’s home in the Ta Van Village.
Day 2:
Giang Ta Chai – Supan – Sapa (B,L)
After having breakfast at the homestay, you will continue the trek onwards towards the Red Dao people’s Giang Ta Chai Village home to a beautiful waterfall. The Red Dao women are known for their colourful red embroideries and coins on their clothing, as well as their brightly coloured red head scarves. Observing a Red Dao legend, some of these women have even shaved off their eyebrows. You will continue along from Giang Ta Chai through small paths in the rice fields, crossing a picturesque suspended bridge over the Muong Hoa River, and up to the Supan village where you will meet the transfer back to Sapa. (There will be a picnic lunch along the way with a local family.) On the road back to Sapa, you will also have the opportunity to visit the ancient stone circle. In Sapa you will check in to your hotel and spend the evening in Sapa.
Day 3:
Coc Ly Market – Chay River – Night train back to Hanoi (B,L)
We will leave Sapa early (around 7:00 AM) for the Coc Ly market. During the visit to Coc Ly, we will meet and learn about the peaceful lives of 6 different minority peoples (Flower H’mong, Black Dzao, Tay, Dzay, Hanhi and Nung). The Coc Ly market is where all the minority groups meet to share news, joys & sorrows after important harvests. After leaving the market, we will board a boat along the Chay River where colossal rock mountains and breathtaking waterfalls lift our spirits (yet make us feel extremely small!). From the boat we will visit the “Fairy Cave” (located deep in the rocks), as well as the Trung Do Village of the Tay Minority peoples, located just nearby the river. We will take a car back to the Lao Cai Station and board the overnight train back to Hanoi City.
Day 4:
Hanoi Arrival
The tour will finish with an arrival into Hanoi’s Train Station around 5:30 AM, where our private car will pick you up and transfer you to your hotel (booked separately, on your own).
We would like to express our sincere thanks for considering and choosing to travel with us. We are confident that you will thoroughly enjoy every moment of your trip and every corner of our beautiful country.
Price: ON REQUEST
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