AS7-SPP3D: SAPA - LAO CAI - TA VAN - GIANG TA CHAI -

COC LY MARKET
3 days / 4 nights

Brief itinerary & tour map

Day 01: ( Saturday ) : Hanoi -Laocai ( Overnight on the train )
Day 02: (Sunday) : Sapa - Lao Chai Village - Ta Van Village ( B, L , D ) 6 hours trekking, 16 km, 3 villages
Day 03: (Monday): TaVan Village - Giang Ta Chai Village -Sapa ( B, L , D ) 5 hours trekking, 14 km, 2 villages
Day 04: (Tuesday): Sapa - CocLy Market - Boat Trip on Chay River ( B, L , D )

Detail tour program

Night 1 (Saturday): Hanoi - Laocai

20h15 Pick you up from your hotel in Ha Noi to Hanoi Railway Station for the night train at at 21h15 to get to Lao Cai Station. Sleep on the train. (4 people/cabin or 2 people/cabin on request)

Day 1 (Sunday): Laochai Village - TaVan Village (6 hours trekking, 16 km, 3 villages)

Picked up at Laocai Railway station early in the morning by bus. Arrive at Sapa round 7h00. Breakfast and shower. Start from Sapa at 10h00 by jeep and then get down to a valley, visit an H'mong village and the hydroelectric power station built by the French. Take a small path to go and visit other 2 villages of the H'mong and the Dzay people (LaoChai and TaVan village). Stay in TaVan at a Dzay family. Picnic lunch on the way and dinner at the family. Overnight at TaVan village.

Day 2 (Monday): Tavan Village - GiangTaChai Village - Sapa (5 hours trekking, 14 km, 2 villages)

Breakfast at the home-stay, take the road to GiangTaChai village to see the Red Dzao people via the paths through terraces and bamboo forests. Visit a waterfall, a suspension bridge. Picnic lunch and cross the river. Visit an H'mong village up to the mountain. Take a jeep back to Sapa. Visit the ancient stone circle on the way back. Check in hotel, dinner in Sapa. Overnight at hotel.

Day 3 (Tuesday): Sapa - CocLy Market - Hanoi

Breakfast at the hotel. Leave from Sapa early at 7h00 for CocLy market by jeep or bus, which is situated far from Sapa. Enjoy the peaceful life of different minority peoples ( Flower H'mong, Black Dzao, Tay, Dzay). The market is the chance for the minorities to meet and share joy and sorrows after the crops, to exchange one another's experience. Say goodbye to the market and get down onto a boat along Chay river. You are bound to feel great and find yourselves smaller among high Rock Mountains and to be surprised at white and breathtakingly waterfalls. Get off the boat to visit a village of the Tay Minority ( TrungDo village) by the river. After the boat trip, visit a small town - BaoNhai and then take jeep back to Laocai Station for the night train to Ha Noi. Have dinner before getting on the night train. Arrive in Ha Noi roughly 5h30. The end of tour.

Tour price

Private tour: To do the tour privately. The tour is not fixed, it is possible to be customized for your group. All service is reserved for your group only. You do not have to share the bus, boat, tour guide with other tourists. One exception, if you stay at the boat in Halong bay - it is like the hotel in Halong - you still have to share the boat with other people.

Rates are inclusive of:

• Accommodation ( Hotel and home-stay at TaVan village)
• Full meals on the tour (3 Breakfasts, 3 Lunches, 3 Dinners)
• Night train tickets 2 ways (soft sleeper with air-conditioning, cabin of 04 berths)
• Transport by private jeep or minibus as tour program, Security service
• Private Boat trip on Chay River
• English- speaking guide (other languages are available upon request).
• Sightseeing as specified including entrance fees

Description of service in details

Rates are not inclusive of:

• Visa fee - visa to Vietnam (details...)

• Optional tours
• Tips for tour guide, driver
• Travel insurance
• International airfare to/ from Vietnam & International airport tax in Vietnam
• Expenditure of a personal nature, tips, such as drinks, souvenirs, laundry, emergency transfers & etc
• Others which are not mentioned in the inclusion

Tour policy for children (Do not apply for air ticket):

• Child under 6 years old sharing room with two (2) adults without extra bed: Free of charge
• Child 6-under 12 years old sharing room with two (2) adults without extra bed: 50% of package cost
• Child 6-under 12 years old sharing room with two (2) adults with extra bed: 75% of package cost
• Child under 12 years old sharing room with one (1) adult: 90% of package cost

• Child 12 years old and above: 100% of adult cost.

• Booking procedure & book this tour
• If you don’t have enough time to complete visa before your departure to Vietnam, we will help you to obtain visa on arrival easily (details...)
• Brief introduce about destinations: Sapa
• As indicated: A/C= Air-conditioning, O/N= Overnight, B=Breakfast, L=Lunch, D=Dinner
• Itinerary is subject to change depending on flights, road condition and room availability
• Rates are subjected to changed without prior notice

Notes: Advised to take good walking shoes, raincoats, jackets, torch, insect repellent and sunscreen...

Accommodations offers in this trip (The hotel may be changed up to its availability. It will be confirmed after getting your deposit/ payment)