Day
1 : Hanoi -Maichau
Am : 8h00 Depart from your hotel to Maichau.
Stop in HoaBinh to see the Hydro Electric Central.
Continue to Maichau, stop over on the way. 13h00 Arrive
at Maichau.
Pm
: Short trekking to visit Thai village,
BanVan & BanLac. Overnight at Pomcong village
in Maichau. 
Day 2 : Maichau - Sonla ( B )
Am : 8h00 Depart to Sonla. Stop to visit small
ethnic hamlets scattering along the way from Yen Chau,
Moc Chau (Muong people). Luch on the way. 14h00 Arrive
Sonla.
Visit Old Prison of Sonla.
Overnight in Sonla.
Day 3 : SonLa - Laichau ( B )
7h30 Breakfast at hotel.Visit the hill-tribe hamlets
including the Black Tay, Meo, Muong and White Tay.
Vân Long pass, Ban Nâm Na and other villages
in the surroundings). Then depart to Laichau. Short
walk on the way. Stop to visit Thuan Chau Market on
the way. Overnight at Laichau.
Day 4 : Laichau Boat
trip ( B )
Breakfast at hotel. 8h00 Full day boat trip
along on the Da River and visit minorities villages
at the river banks - cruising
through many verdant valley.
17h00 Return to hotel.
Overnight at LanAnh hotel in Laichau.
Day 5 : Laichau - SinHo -
Paso( B )
Am : 7h30 Drive Lai Chau to SinHo . Sightseeing stops
on the way for breathtaking scenery.
Pm
: 16h00 arrive BaSo town. Overnight at Lananh hotel
in Laichau.
 Day
6 : Paso - Sapa ( B )
Am : 8h00 Depart to Sapa. Strolling
through the colourful market at Tam Duong early in
the morning where you will meet many different ethnic
minority communities. After the market, you will head
out on another one of Northern Vietnam's most spectacular
roads on the way to Sapa. Arriver in the old French
colonial hill station of Sapa late in the afternoon.
Free time after check-in until dinner at a local restaurant.
Overnight at the hotel.
Day
7 : Sapa - Laochai - Tavan ( 4 hours trekking,
12 km, 3 villages ) (
B )
Breakfast and relax.. Walk around Sapa and then
start from Sapa at 12:00 PM by jeep to visit a village
of the Black H'mong (LaoChaiSan). Go though hillsides
along MuongHoa river. Cross the river by a suspension
bridge to reach LaoChai village. Take the paths across
the paddy fields to get to the 3rd village of the
Dzay minority (TaVan) and Stay the night at a Dzay
family in this village. Picnic lunch on the way and
dinner at the family.
Day
8 : TaVan -Ban Ho (7 hours trekking, 18 km,
3 villages ) (
B )
Breakfast with the local family and then get to a
village located at the foot of HoangLienSon range
via bamboo forests. Visit a waterfall and a rattan
bridge. After the village, get down to the river,
cross it and keep going to SuPan village for 2 minorities
- The H'mong and the Red Dzao. . Get off the road
to go down hill to BanHo village. Overnight at Ban
Ho with a Tay family who have houses on stilts. Return
and overnight at hotel in Sapa.
Day 9 : Sapa - Bacha ( B )
Sunday
Depart at 6.00 a.m. for Bacha. Stop on the way for
sightseeing.
visit ethnic hamlets and take photographs. You will
have time to visit the houses on stilt of H'Mong,
Dzao, minorities in Bacha. Overnight in Bacha.
Day
10 : Bacha - Hanoi ( B )
7h00 Am Return to Hanoi. More stop on the way. Lunch
at PhoRang town.
17h00
Arrive Hanoi.
Note : you may take
the night train to Hanoi on Day 9 , instead of staying
in BacHa
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