AD4-HM7D: SAPA HOMESTAY & VICTORIA EXPERIENCE
(7 days)
Sapa is a former French hill station situated in the sweeping valleys near the Chinese border. Its high elevation of 1600 meters creates its cool climate which inspired the French to build villas there as a summer retreat. Today, Sapa still attracts visitors for its stunning scenery, comfortable climate, colorful markets, and a variety of ethnic hill tribes who live in nearby villages. This program has increasingly become popular through the years with improvements in the road conditions and the new 4-star Victoria Sapa Hotel making travel today much easier and more comfortable.
Start: Mon
Finish: Sat
Itinerary in brief
Day 1: Mon: HANOI - SAPA (-/-/-)
Day 2: Tue: SAPA - TREKKING (B/-/-)
Day 3: Wed: SAPA - HILL TRIBAL VILLAGES (B/L/D)
Day 4: Thur: SAPA - VILLAGE (B/L/D)
Day 5: Fri: SAPA - VILLAGES (B/L/-)
Day 6: Sat: SAPA - TRAIN BACK TO HANOI (B/L/-)
Day 7: Sun: ARRIVAL HANOI
Detail program
Day 1: Mon: HANOI - SAPA (-/-/-)
Our trip starts with an overnight train journey from Vietnam's capital city to the border town of Lao Cai. The luxury Victoria Express departs at 22h:00.
Day 2: Tue: SAPA - TREKKING (B/-/-)
Arrival to Laocai station is scheduled at 6am you will be pick up and transferred to Victoria Hotel. Freshen up and enjoy buffet breakfast at the hotel. At 10AM we will embark on a lovely walk that will take us along small paths and trails and through several hill tribe villages of Catcat and Sinchai, home to H'mong, people. This is a absolutely spectacular walk through stunning scenery inhabited by some of the friendliest people you can meet.
Overnight at Victoria Sapa hotel
Day 3: Wed: SAPA - HILL TRIBAL VILLAGES (B/L/D)
Today we will have pleasant trek into the scenic rice field and mountains of Sapa, there will be ample opportunity to meet with our friendly people. We walk to Lao Chai and TaVan village From here we pass through several H'mong villages perched on distant hill, and are sure to attract attention as this part of the country receive very few visitors. We will arrive at Ban Ho village, Tay minority people by later afternoon . We will have time to walk around this charming little village, enabling us to understand a little more about how the people live. The village is home to the Tay people and tonight we will be their guests in one of their traditional stilt houses. There we will be toasted as honored guests and will be able to sample some of their homemade rice wine!
Day 5: Fri: SAPA - VILLAGES (B/L/-)
We walk uphill toward Supan, red Dzao villages. As we walk to the village nestled in the valley below Sapa, we will meet some of the local minority people on their way to and from Sapa. These minority people walk to Sapa to trade at the markets. Sapa market is always an exciting place as several, different ethnic minorities congregate here. As well as the H’mong you will also see the Dao (pronounced Zao). Dao women are particularly striking as they wear a large red turban often covered with old coins or jewelry. We meet our awaiting jeep for the drive to Sapa.
Overnight at Victoria Sapa hotel
Day 6: Sat: SAPA - TRAIN BACK TO HANOI (B/L/-)
We breakfast and bid farewell to friendly local people for a transfer back to Lao Cai for the Victoria Express train journey back to Hanoi. The scenic train journey leaves at 10:20 and takes us along the most spectacular country along Red river. We are treatred to 3 course lunch on Victoria Express. We arrive back to Hanoi :30pm. The trip concludes in Hanoi.
Day 7: Sun: ARRIVAL HANOI
The train arrives to Hanoi early in the morning. The trip concludes.
TOUR COST: in US; per person
- US $560 Victoria Express - Superior Cabin ( 4 people a cabin)
- US $630 Victoria Express - Deluxe Cabin ( 2 people a cabin)
- Single supplement: US$205 per person
