Overview

On this tour, we first take a night train up to Laocai then drive to Bacha for market visit & minority villages. next day we drive to Sapa and start exploring the town & its remote villages. On the last day, we travel from Sapa to Cocly weekly market to witness the authenticity and  interesting cultural aspects of locals going there before getting for train station to take another night train back to Hanoi.
Tour Features & Highlights:

•    Breathtaking scenery of mountains, valleys, waterfalls and rice fields
•    Comfortable weather
•    Can Cau Market, Bac Ha Market, Coc Ly Market
•    Minority Villages
•    Activities including walking, trekking and boating

Itinerary

Day 1: Hanoi –night train to Lao Cai
At 8h30 pm, we will pick you up at your hotel and transfer to Hanoi Railway Station for overnight train to Lao Cai.

Day 2: Lao Cai –Can Cau Market –Bac Ha (B, L)
Arrive Lao Cai Railways Station in the early morning (around 6am), you will have a refreshment and breakfast before transfering to Can Cau Saturday Market, a small market situated in a valley and 7 kms far from China. The journey to Can Cau takes us more than 2 hours.
At the market, you can see minority people exchanging everything through cups of wine sold in the market, young boys and girls in colourful costumes attendding the market with the hope of finding “their half”.
Leaving Can Cau Market with lots of nice photos, you head to Bac Ha. On the way, you will visit a village of the Flower H'mong. Check in hotel in Bac Ha, you have free time to explore the town.

Day 3: Bac Ha –Sapa (B, L)
After breakfast, we take a walk to Bac Ha Sunday Market, the biggest and the most colourful market in the North West area.
At the market, you have a chance to see unique kinds of food, special wines made from rice, cassavas, corn and different fruits such as plumps, apples, peaches, etc... Today is also another chance for you to take nice photos of spectacular scenery.
Leave the market, you will visit the H'mong King's house built by the French colonists and the Chinese in 1920. Return the town for lunch.
In the afternoon, you have a guided tour to Ban Pho Village. Then make our way to Sapa. Overnight in Sapa.

Day 4: Sapa-Cat Cat & Sin Chai (B, L)
A morning walking tour in Sapa opens a busy market where the Red Dao, the Black H’mong and other minority people converge from the surrounding countryside to sell their embroidery, silverware, handicrafts and purchase provisions.
Back to hotel by 10 am, we start a trekking day to visit villages of the Black H'mong (Cat Cat and Sin Chai). Picnic lunch at a waterfall and then you can see an old French Hydro power station. A transfer back to Sapa by Jeep will be arranged. Overnight in Sapa town.

Day 5: Sapa- Coc Ly –Lao Cai (B, L, D)
Breakfast at the hotel. Then you depart early in the morning at 7am for Coc Ly Tuesday Market. Enjoy the peaceful life of different minority peoples including Flower H'mong, Black Dzao, Tay and Dzay. The market is the chance for the minorities to meet and share joy and sorrows after the crops as well as exchange their own experience.
Boating along Chay river, you will be surprised at breaktaking scenary of impressive Rock Mountains and waterfalls. You also visit some villages on the way.
Then jeep transfers you back to Laocai Station for overnight train to Hanoi.

Day 6: Hanoi Arrival
Arrive Hanoi at around 5pm. End of great tour.

Rates

This trip is PRIVATE for each group of passengers . The cost for this trip can be varied depending on the number of people in your group, your specific travel needs and your expected hotel grades( indicated below as “ Boutique Hotels” or “Deluxe Hotel”.  Should you want to CUSTOMIZE this itinerary or require special requests like: “ I want to have a limousine” or “ I want to stay in luxury hotels”, please let us know and we’ll send you quotation shortly.                 

Group size	2 pax	4 pax	6 pax	Single Supp.
Boutique Hotels	US$ 540	US$ 406	US$ 355	US$ 111
Deluxe Hotels	US$ 815	US$ 680	US$ 630	US$ 370

      *Note: The above prices are quoted in USD and per person 

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