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Night 1
: Hanoi -Laocai
( Overnight on the train )
8h30pm
Sapatours 's taxi take you from your hotel in Hanoi
to Hanoi Railway Station for the night train at at
9:30 PM to get to Laocai Station. Sleep on the train.(4
people/cabin or 2 people/cabin on request).
Day 2
: Laocai -Sapa - Laochai - Tavan ( 4 hours
trekking, 14 km, 2 villages )
Picked up at Laocai Station
early in the morning by our bus. Arrive at Sapa
round 8:00 AM; Breakfast start at 10h30am
to get to Laochai
village. Enjoy the overall pictures of the villages
among terraces. Visit the H'mong
living in wooden and bamboo houses. Continue going
to Tavan village to visit
the Dzay minority. Stay
the night in Tavan village
at a Dzay family. Picnic
lunch on the way and dinner at the home-stay.
Day 3
: TaVan -Ban Ho (7 hours trekking, 18 km, 3 villages
)
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 visitting Giang
ta chai
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. Picnic lunch on the way and dinner at the family.
Day 4
: BanHo -Thanh Phu
( 7 hours trekking, 15 km, 3 villages )
Get up early in the morning for fresh air and peaceful
daily life of the people. Breakfast and leave the
village for a hard day. Walk uphill to a smallest
and almost untouched village of the Red Dzao
(Namtoong). Go further to
another village on the same side of of
the mountain range to see the XaPho ethnic group in NamKen. Get
down to the river and go up to MiSon
to visit the XaPho again. Spend the night in ThanhPhu
village at a Tay family. Picnic lunch on the way and dinner
with the local family.
Day 5 : Thanh
Phu - Sapa ( 12 km with 4
hours trekking and 23 km by jeep )
Breakfast at ThanhPhu village.
Walk back to SuPan village where to take a jeep back to Sapa. On the way back, visit the ancient stone circle (stones
decorated with ancient carvings which are said to
have described the life of the people lost in the
mists of prehistory) Check in hotel. Lunch at SuPan and dinner in Sapa.
Day 6 : Cat cat - Laocai and back to
Hanoi:
Breakfast, visit village of the black H'mong
(Catcat), walk around visiting
people in the village and the hydroelectric power
station built by the French in the old days. Back town have lunch and check out hotel, free
to explore the town until take bus to get to Laocai
Station for the night train back to Hanoi.
Arrive in Hanoi around 5.00 AM. The end of the
tour.
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