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Code: |
VNTK 16 |
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Routes: |
Sa Pa - Can Cau - Bac Ha
- Coc Ly - Boat Trip - Market |
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Duration: |
04 Days |
Itinerary in brief
Day 1
: Hanoi -Laocai
( night train )
Day 2 :
Arrival Laocai - Bacha - Cancau market
(Saturday)
Day 3 (Sunday) : Visit Bacha market - Sapa
Day 4 : Visit Sapa ( 4 hours trekking, 12 km, 2
villages: )
- Night train to Hanoi
Detail Itinerary
Day 1
: Hanoi -Laocai
( night train )
Pick up at your hotel and taxi take you to Hanoi
Railway Station for the night train at at 9:30
PM to get to Laocai Station. Sleep on the train.
Day 2 : Arrival Laocai - Bacha - Cancau market
(Saturday):
CanCau - BacHa: Picked up at Laocai Train
Station to transfer to CanCau market. It takes
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 lifves" and this is also the time for them
to chat, to exchange everything among different
ethnic peoples through cups of wine sold in the
market. Say goodbye to the market and transfer
to BacHa. On the way, spend time visiting a
village of the Flower H'mong and then check in
hotel in BacHa. Free to explore the town. Lunch
in CanCau or in BacHa and dinner in BacHa.
Day 3 (Sunday) : Visit Bacha market - Sapa
A walk to BacHa 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, spend time visiting another
village (BanPho village) Say good bye to BacHa
and get back to Sapa. On the way back, drop in
to see the Vietnamese and Chinese Harbour Mouth
in LaoCai. Reach Sapa late in the afternoon.
Check in hotel in Sapa.
Day 4 : Visit Sapa ( 4 hours trekking, 12 km, 2
villages: )
- Night train to Hanoi
Breakfast, check out hotel at 10:00 AM. Get
downhill by jeep to the valley then walk for 3
villages of the Black H'mong and the Dzay
people. Lunch at a Dzay family. Get up to the
road for a jeep back to Sapa. Then take bus to
LaoCai Station for the night train to Hanoi.
Dinner on the train.
Arrive in Hanoi round 4:30 AM. The end of tour
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