Hoàn Kiếm Trip Overview
Recently, it’s easy to reach Sapa by bus thank to the new express high way from Hanoi to Lao Cai. Just take only 6 hours, you have chance to enjoy great landscape of Sapa Rice Terraces as well as the minority people living in Sapa. Trekking is the best way to explore Sapa town and the ethnic villages down the valley…
This is designed for people who love trekking inside the remote villages, staying overnight at the local homestay to learn the unique culture of the ethnic people in Sapa…
Additional Info
Duration: 3 days
Starts: Hoàn Kiếm, Vietnam
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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Recently, it’s easy to reach Sapa by bus thank to the new express high way from Hanoi to Lao Cai. Just take only 6 hours, you have chance to enjoy great landscape of Sapa Rice Terraces as well as the minority people living in Sapa. Trekking is the best way to explore Sapa town and the ethnic villages down the valley…
This is designed for people who love trekking inside the remote villages, staying overnight at the local homestay to learn the unique culture of the ethnic people in Sapa…
Itinerary
Day 1: HANOI – SAPA – CAT CAT VILLAGE (L/D)
Stop At: Vietnam Open Day Tours, 9 Hang Huong, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi Vietnam
6.30 – 7.00: Pick up from your hotel in Hanoi Old Quarter /meeting point, get on big bus and depart for Sapa Town.
Stop At: Sapa, Sapa, Lao Cai Province
9.30: Follow the highway to Lao Cai city with the first comfort break
11.00: Second comfort break at Lao Cai city before approaching Sapa
13.00: Arrive Sapa Town with colorful traditional costumes of H’Mong, Dzao, Tay ethnic People.
Get pick up from the bus office in Sapa at 12:30PM to take you to our office
Have Lunch and check-in the room. We will then depart from the hotel at 2:30pm and walk down 3Km to Exploring Cat Cat Shin chai village of H’mong – A colonial French discovered area and a renowned resort to officials from the early twenty centry.
Arriving to Cat Cat village, visitors will be visiting the Hydropower station, the waterfall of Cat Cat village as well as learning about the culture, customs and unique people here with traditional crafts such as weaving, carved silver, hand forged agricultural tools. After that you will walk back to Sapa (3Km)
Relax and have dinner at 6:30PM or 7:00PM -Overnight at the hotel in Sapa
Duration: 4 hours
No meals included on this day.
Accommodation included: staying overnight at hotel
Day 2: SAPA – Y LINH HO – LAO CHAI (B/L/D)
Stop At: Sapa, Sapa, Lao Cai Province
Breakfast and check-out the room before 8:30AM.
We will then depart from the hotel at 8:30am to walk down to Y Linh Ho, a village inhabited by the Hmong minority. This is a great opportunity to take photographs of hereditary terraces that are estimated around 100 years old. From Y Linh Ho we will make our way to Lao Chai village where you will visit the Hmong home town. Stop in Lao Chai for lunch break around 1 hour.
You will then continue to Ta Van, an established Hmong and Giay village. Here you will be warmly welcomed by a local Giay family and stay here for the night in their home-stay
Cooking and having dinner with local family
Duration: 7 hours
No meals included on this day.
Accommodation included: staying overnight at homestay
Day 3: GIANG TA CHAI – SAPA – HANOI (B/L)
Stop At: Sapa, Sapa, Lao Cai Province
Get the wake up by a rooster or the pigs, have breakfast with some pancakes, hot tea or hot coffee out door — you will be treated to sensational views across the rice terraces. After breakfast you’ll say good bye to the local then trek through an enchanting bamboo forest, silk waterfall to Giang Ta Chai. After a few hours of trekking, we will stop and enjoy a picnic lunch with our scenic views. We then walk back to the main road and catch a car or mini van back to Sapa Town!
Get back to Sapa at around 2:00PM. Have shower at our hotel. At 3:00PM we will got a shuttle to drive you to the bus office, check-in the bus for you to go back to Hanoi. Before you leave we got to prepare you some sandwiches to take a way with you
Duration: 7 hours
No meals included on this day.
No accommodation included on this day.
