Night 1: Hanoi - Lao Cai
Our car will pick you up at your hotel and then transfer to Ha Noi Train Station to get the night train to Lao Cai station. Overnight on train.
Day 1: Laocai - Sapa - Laochai - Ta Van ( B, L, D )
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. Picnic lunch on the way and dinner and overnight at the home-stay.Stay the night in Tavan village at a Dzay family.
Day 2: Ta Van - Ban Ho ( B, L, D )
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. Picnic lunch on the way and dinner at the family. Overnight at Ban Ho with a Tay family who have houses on stilts
Day 3: BanHo -Thanh Phu ( B, L, D )
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. Overnight in homestay.
Day 4: Thanh Phu - Sapa ( B, L, D )
Breakfast at ThanhPhu village. Walk back to SuPan village where our jeep car take you 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. Overnight in hotel.
Day 5: Cat Cat - Laocai ( B, L, D )
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. Overnight on the train.
Day 6: Hanoi - Arrival
Getting back to Hanoi at early morning. Take a taxi to come your hotel by yourself. End of services.
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