AS3-FAN2D: Conquer the top of Mt. Fansipan

Lao Cai – Sapa – Fansipan – Hanoi (2 days/ 3 nights)

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Sapa is a beautiful former French hill-station. At an altitude of 1,650 m Sapa boasts warm days and cool evenings and all day fresh air. Nowadays, Sapa has become a favorite destination due to its inspiring scenery of mounatin ranges and terraced valley floors dotted with small ethnic villages. Sapa is home to several of Vietnam’s 54 ethnic minority groups, each with their own distinctive dress, customs and dialects making it a colorful mosaic of culture. Sapa is also renowned for its trekking. With South East Asia's highest peak, Mt. Fanxipan (3,143 m) providing the perfect backdrop for some great trekking routes. This 3 day trek with outdoor camping offers all of the challenges and rewards of any hike. And, at the summit you be one of the few to have reached up and touched the clouds marking the roof of Indochina.

Brief itinerary & tour map

The Night Before: Transfer from your hotel to the Hanoi Train Station for boarding at 9:30 pm
Day 01: Lao Cai – Sapa, hike up to an elevation of 2700m (B/ L/ D)
Day 02: 2,700 m – Fansipan peak - Sapa (B, L)

Detail tour program

The Night Before:

Transfer from your hotel to the Ha Noi Train Station for boarding at 9:30 pm. You will be in shared A/C sleeper cabins of 4 (6) to travel North to Lao Cai town.
The train arrives in Lao Cai at about 6:30 am where your OPENTOUR guide will welcome you. Then take a morning drive through the clouds by car / van to Sapa (about 1.5 hours).

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Day 01: Lao Cai – Sapa, hike up to an elevation of 2700m (B/ L/ D)

Bus pick up from Lao Cai Station to Sapa. Check-in hotel. Breakfast then start the tour by Jeep to silver waterfall, Tram Ton pass - from this highest pass in Vietnam, starts the strenuous climb to the peak. 8 hours through primitive forest, many small streams and bamboo forests…reach the top of 2,700m, make tents, and prepare for dinner. This is the 1^st night for travelers, guide and porters to seat friendly close to each others beside the fire to enjoy the tasty moment that all have once in the life of experience.

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Day 02: 2,700 m – Fansipan peak - Sapa (B, L)

A hard climb heads up to the top the summit. At the top you will be the vanquisher. Take your time to enjoy yourself, take pictures and your lunch then descend the same way or take another way to go down to the foot of the mountain and take a jeep back to Sapa. Bus to Lao Cai Station to get night train back to Ha Noi. Tour end at Ha Noi train station in the next day (5h00 am). Please find your own way to your hotel, a taxi normally costs you a set of 50,000 VND (2-3 usd).

Tour price (Seat-in-coach tour - Daily Guaranteed Departure )

Mid-range : 155 US $/Pax

Rates are inclusive of:

• Stay in base camp or hut in Hoang Lien National Park with sleeping bag.
• Meals as mentioned the program.
• Land transfer Hanoi, Lao Cai A/C soft sleeper train ticket.
• English or French speaking guides. Other languages are available upon request.
• 1 porter/ 3-4 tourists.
• Local insurance.
• Admission fees for all sightseeing places

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

Group tour: To join with other people on available daily tours. These tours are fixed itinerary and departure time. It is possible to join in even your group of only 1 or 2 people. Customer do not to find other people to form the group. It is our company duty to gather the tourists for each tour. For these tours, you have to share the coach, boat and tour guide with other tourists who come from different nationalities. The number of people of this group is normally less than 20 persons.

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.