Hoàn Kiếm Trip Overview
After the overnight train journey from Hanoi, you will be exploring Sapa and its beautiful southern valley for two days with one night home stay in Ta Van village of the Zay people..
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Duration: 2 days
Starts: Hoàn Kiếm, Vietnam
Trip Category: Outdoor Activities >> Hiking & Camping
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After the overnight train journey from Hanoi, you will be exploring Sapa and its beautiful southern valley for two days with one night home stay in Ta Van village of the Zay people..
Itinerary
Day 1: Sapa – Y Linh Ho – Lao Chai – Ta Van ( B,L,D)
Stop At: Y Linh Ho, Lao Chai Tl152, Sapa 290000 Vietnam
Night 1: Take overnight train from Hanoi to Lao Cai
Be ready at your hotel lobby at 8:00pm, our tour guide and driver will meet and pick you up for a short transfer to Hanoi Station to take the overnight train to Lao Cai City.
6:00am: Pick up at Lao Cai Station upon your early arrival for over an hour drive uphill in a shared mini van to Sapa.
7:30am: Enjoy Breakfast at hotel. You can take a shower at our hotel. If you have many luggage, you can leave your luggage at our hotel, only bring what is necessary with you to homestay. You will come back our hotel on the last day to take your luggage and have dinner before back to Hanoi.
9:30am: Begin your trekking trip. You will follow the main road heading south for about an hour before turning right to a foot path down hill to Muong Hoa Valley. This part offers spectacular scenery of the highest part of Hoang Lien Son mountain range and in a nice day, Fansipan Peak can be seen. Crossing the river by a suspension bridge you will challenge your feet uphill to Y Linh Ho village. Here you will pay visiting to some H’mong families, watching them doing their daily works. After Lunch, the trail continues up and down hill for about 2 hours as you reach to Lao Chai, a large village of the H’mong and then following the river bank to Ta Van of the Zay people. Paying visiting to local homes, village schools… you will enjoy much your cultural discovery of local ethnic peoples as well as breathtaking scenery of the Muong Hoa Valley.
Settle down in Ta Van village for an overnight home stay.
Duration: 10 hours
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Overnight at homestay in Ta Van village
Day 2: Ta Van – Giang Ta Chai – Hau Thao – Sapa – Overnight train to Hanoi (B,L,D)
Stop At: Giang Ta Chai Village, Ta Van Commune, Sapa 008420 Vietnam
7:00am: Enjoy breakfast at homestay.
9:00am: Begin the tour. You will take the trail uphill, passing fascinating terraced rice field and some small hamlets of the H’mong before getting through a bamboo forest to a waterfall, enjoy a break for magnificent scenery and then continue walking for half an hour to Giang Ta Chai village of the Red Zao peoples which sits on the top of a hill and looks down Muong Hoa river. After spending time visiting the village, making friend with the Zao and experiencing the hospitality you will cross the river by another suspension bridge and then uphill again to Hau Thao village where you will pay visiting to a local handicraft center where H’mong and Zao women gather for exchanging experience and skill of making handicrafts. Lunch will be prepared here nearby this center and then you have time relaxing as well as getting acquaintance with local school boys, girls and their teachers as well.
4:30pm: Have dinner at hotel
5:30pm: Our guide pick you up at hotel and take you to Lao Cai station.
Overnight train to Hanoi. You will arrive in Hanoi at 4:40am and back to your hotel by yourself.
Duration: 8 hours
Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
No accommodation included on this day.
