Tour operate to people who love to explore unique of the ethic group in Vietnam such as: Black H’mong, Flower H’mong, Red Dzao, Dzay, Tay, Nung…

Night 01: Ha Noi – Lao Cai – Night on train
Pick you up at your hotel and transfer to railway station at around 20h15 for a night train at 20h40 to Lao Cai. Spend a night on train.

Services included: Transport, guide and train ticket (Soft sleeper with A/C – Shared 4 beds cabin).

Day 01: Lao Cai – Can Cau Market – Bac Ha (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner) – Saturday
Upon arrival in Lao Cai Station, pick up and spend time for breakfast before driving with more than 2 hours to get to CanCau – a small market situated in a valley surrounded by mountains and only 7 km from China. The market deeply shows the typical cultural features of the minorities in remote mountainous areas in Vietnam. Further more, you can enjoy seeing boys and girls in colourful costumes – different colours of the mountains. They attend the market in the hope of finding “the other halves of their lives” and this is also the time for them to chat, to exchange everything among different ethnic people through cups of wine sold in the market. Say goodbye to the market and transfer to Bac Ha town for check in. Night in Bac Ha.

Services included: Transport, guide, meals, entrance fee and hotel (Shared double/ twin room).

Day 02: Sapa – Bac Ha Market – Boat trip – Sapa (Breakfast, Lunch) – Sunday
Today, after the breakfast, enjoy a walk to Bac Ha market. Visit one village and an old building called The H’mong king’s house. Breakfast and the beginning of the day on which you visit a big market filled with many different hill-tribe peoples. This is the most colourful market in North Vietnam. At the market, you have chance to enjoy BacHa people’s simple but unique kinds of food with special wines made from rice, cassavas, corn and different sorts of fruits such as plumps, apples, peaches… talking to the minorities through the guide’s interpretation. Leave the market for the H’mong King’s house (King Hoang A Tuong) built by the French colonists and the Chinese in 1920. Return the town for lunch. In the afternoon, say good bye to Bac Ha and drive to Trung Do village where the Tay ethnic minority people live, You will have chance to do another hour walk to enjoy the landscape and get to know the local lives here, After this village is about 1 hour on boat along beautiful Chay river. On the way back Lao Cai for a short visit the Chinese Border. Heading to Sapa fro check in and Night in Sapa.

Services included: Transport, guide, meals, entrance fee and hotel (Shared double/ twin room).

Day 03: Sapa – Cat Cat Village – Water Fall – Shin Chai – Lao Cai – Hanoi (Breakfast, Lunch)
Today, after the breakfast, we will enjoy a trek to Cat Cat village to discover the daily life and traditional of people here, time to a traditional house of the minority before enjoy a water fall and the vestige of a hydroelectric power station that was constructed by the French during the colonial time in Vietnam. Enjoy picnic lunch by the side of the river, and then next 6 km to Sin Chai, the village located at the foot of Fansipan Mountain, “the roof of Vietnam and Indochina”. From here you can enjoy huge stunning landscapes before climbing up on the way to return to Sapa. Rest before drive to Lao Cai for the night train back Hanoi. Night on train. At 05h00am in next day. Tour ends.

Services included: Transport, guide, meals, entrance fee and train ticket (Soft sleeper with A/C – Shared 4 beds cabin).

Tour cost: In USD/ Person 

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Included: Transportation with air conditioner, English speaking guide on tour; Meals mentioned above; Entrance fee for sites visited; boat trip on Chay River; 1 night at Bac Ha and 1 night in Sapa; Train tickets.

Excluded: Drinks, telephone , laundry, personal expense, Airfare, Payment services charge by credit card or bank transfer or other services not mentioned in the itinerary