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AS4-SIC3D: Ha Noi - Sapa by train - group tour - moderate trekking - home stay (3days/4nights) :: Sapa tours - Group tours
   
11:00' AM - Monday, 20/10/2008

AS4-SIC3D: Ha Noi - Sapa by train - group tour - moderate trekking - home stay (3days/4nights)

3 days/ 4 nights

  1. Program 1 - Y Linh Ho – Lao Chai – Ta Van – Giang Ta Chai / Cat Cat – Sin Chai
  2. Program 2: Y Linh Ho – Lao Chai – Ta Van – Giang Ta Chai – Ban Ho – Nam Toong / Bac Ha market
  3. Program 3: Best selling: Ta Van – Giang Ta Chai – Ban Ho / Bac Ha market


Option 1: Y Linh Ho – Lao Chai – Ta Van – Giang Ta Chai / Cat Cat – Sin Chai

The Night Before:

7h30pm, We will pick you up from your hotel in Hanoi to Hanoi Railway Station for the night train to Lao Cai Station. Sleep on the train (4 berth cabin, soft sleeper).

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Day 1: Sapa – Y Linh Ho – Lao Chai – Ta Van (B, L, D)

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). Breakfast then start the tour with 6 km of walking down to the south east of Sapa along the side of Muong Hoa valley to Y Linh Ho village of the Black H’mong. Continue on 2km of trekking down to Lao Chai village of the H’mong. Lunch at a local family, and then walk through terraced rice fields to Ta Van village of the Dzay minority people where we stay for the night. It gives you a worth chance for you to learn about the local house architecture which is full of their daily life styles and exclusive custom. O/N in the Dzay local house

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Day 2: Ta Van – Giang Ta Chai – Sapa (B, L, D)

After breakfast, continue on 14 km of trekking to visit 2 villages of the red Dzao, the H’mong. Visit a beautiful waterfall and rattan bridge. Enjoy landscapes… through bamboo forest to the main road to catch the jeep to return to Sapa. O/N at the hotel in Sapa.

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Day 3: Cat Cat & Sin Chai (B, L, D)

A walk down to the South-west of Sapa (around 4 km) to visit Cat Cat village of the Black H’mong. Relax at the food of the stunning waterfall 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 a jeep to return to Sapa. Bus to Lao Cai Station to get night train back to Ha Noi.

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Day 4: Arrive Hanoi

Tour end at Ha Noi train station about 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 (Group tour - joining tour - seat-in-coach tour - daily guaranteed departure)

Price per pax (adult) in US Dollars - Currency converter

Tour class

Price/ pax (Seat-in-coach tours) Hotel in Sapa

Standard 2-star hotel

125

Royal hotel // home stay

Mid-range 3-star hotel

145

Holiday Sapa // Royal view hotel

Superior 3+-star hotel

167

Bamboo hotel // Chau Long

Deluxe 4-star hotel

450

Victoria Sapa

Seat-in-coach tours: 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.

Rates are inclusive of:

  • Homestay & hotel accommodation with daily breakfast

  • Meals as mentioned the program. (B: Breakfast, L: lunch, D: Dinner)

  • Land transfer by car/ bus for whole trip;

  • Hanoi, Lao Cai A/C soft sleeper train ticket (4 berths train ).

  • English or French speaking guides. Other languages are available upon request.

  • Admission fees for all sightseeing places.

All’s for your satisfaction!


Option 2: Y Linh Ho – Lao Chai – Ta Van – Giang Ta Chai – Ban Ho – Nam Toong / Bac Ha market

The Night Before:

Transfer from your hotel to the Hanoi Train Station for boarding at 9:30 pm. You will be in shared A/C sleeper cabins of 4 berths to travel North to Lao Cai town.
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Day 1: Sapa – Y Linh Ho – Lao Chai – Ta Van (B, L, D)

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). Breakfast then start the tour with 16 km of trekking, visit Y Linh ho, Lao Chai and Ta Van villages of the H’mong and the Dzay minorities. After lunch at a local family in Ta Van, we keep on hiking around the village of the Dzay & H’mong where we stay overnight in a local family for you to get to know their daily life of the local people: work, custom, embroideries, clothes...O/N at the Dzay local house

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Day 2: Ta Van – Giang Ta Chai – Su Pan – Ban Ho (B, L, D)

After pancake made by your host family, we continue to discover Giang Ta Chai village, then Su Pan villages of the red Dzao minority. After picnic lunch, we keep on hiking to Ban Ho, the village lies within a beautiful valley, home to the Tay minority people who have their traditional house on stilts and we will spend the night here. O/N at the Tay local house

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Day 3: Ban Ho – Nam Toong - Sapa (B, L, D)

2 km walking to a very nice waterfall discovered and named “the Lavie” by the French during the colonial time in Vietnam. Enjoy swimming then go up to the mountain to visit a small hamlet of the Red Dzao people called Nam Toong, then get back to Ban Ho before get to Sapa by jeep. Bus to Lao Cai Station to get night train back to Hanoi.

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Day 4: Arrive Hanoi

Tour end at Hanoi train station about 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 (Group tour - joining tour - seat-in-coach tour - daily guaranteed departure)

Price per pax (adult) in US Dollars - Currency converter

Tour class

Price/ pax (Seat-in-coach tours) Hotel in Sapa

Standard 2-star hotel

135

Royal hotel // home stay

Mid-range 3-star hotel

158

Holiday Sapa // Royal view hotel

Superior 3+-star hotel

189

Bamboo hotel // Chau Long

Deluxe 4-star hotel

505

Victoria Sapa

Seat-in-coach tours: 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.

Rates are inclusive of:

  • Homestay & hotel accommodation with daily breakfast

  • Meals as mentioned the program. (B: Breakfast, L: lunch, D: Dinner)

  • Land transfer by car/ bus for whole trip;

  • Hanoi, Lao Cai A/C soft sleeper train ticket.

  • English or French speaking guides. Other languages are available upon request.

  • Admission fees for all sightseeing places.


Sapa tour (home stay, local market)

3 days/ 4 nights

The Night Before:

Transfer from your hotel to the Hanoi 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.
.

Day 1: Sapa – Ta Van – Giang Ta Chai – Su Pan – Ban Ho (B, L, D)

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). Breakfast then start the tour with 12 km by jeep then trek down hill to Ta Van village of the Dzay minority. Follow along the side of Muong Hoa stream to Giang Ta Chai village of the red Dzao where we have lunch at a local family. After lunch, we keep hiking to Ban Ho, the village lies in the beautiful valleys, home-stay at the Tay minority house to experience the architecture of their traditional house on stilts and spend time beside them to exchange the cultures and knowledge. Home-stay in the Tay local house.

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Day 2: Around Ban Ho - Sapa (B, L, D)

2km walking to a very nice waterfall discovered and named “the Lavie” by the French during the colonial time in Vietnam. Enjoy swimming then picnic-lunch on the bank. In the afternoon trek 4 km up to the main road o get the jeep to return to Sapa.

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Day 3: Bac Ha market (Sunday only) (B, L, D)

Located at 110km from Sapa, Bac Ha mountain town is well-known by travelers with the most colorful market of the hill tribes in the North of Vietnam. This every-Sunday-market attended by at least 8 ethnic groups and last from 9:00 AM until 2:00 PM. It is also chance for tourists to discover the H’mong King’s palace (old building built by the French & Chinese).

In the afternoon, we go for a light trek to visit Ban Pho, the village is home to flower H’mong minority. We are invited to enter several local houses to have some green tea, corn wine, listen to the host talking about their family, talk to them… and then enjoy landscapes on a roundabout way to Bac Ha then get on bus to Lao Cai Station to get night train back to Hanoi.

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Day 4: Arrive Hanoi

Tour end at Hanoi train station about 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 (Group tour - joining tour - seat-in-coach tour - daily guaranteed departure)

Price per pax (adult) in US Dollars - Currency converter

Tour class

Price/ pax (Seat-in-coach tours) Hotel in Sapa

Standard 2-star hotel

198

Royal hotel // home stay

Mid-range 3-star hotel

235

Holiday Sapa // Royal view hotel

Superior 3+-star hotel

289

Bamboo hotel // Chau Long

Deluxe 4-star hotel

565

Victoria Sapa

Seat-in-coach tours: 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.

Rates are inclusive of:

  • Homestay & hotel accommodation with daily breakfast

  • Meals as mentioned the program. (B: Breakfast, L: lunch, D: Dinner)

  • Land transportation by air-conditioned vehicles
  • 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:

  • Optional tours
  • Tips for tour guide, driver
  • Travel insurance
  • Expenditure of a personal nature, tips, such as drinks, souvenirs, laundry, emergency transfers & etc
  • Visa fee (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...)

  • International airfare to/ from Vietnam & International airport tax in Vietnam
  • Others which are not mentioned in the inclusion

Remark:

All’s for your satisfaction!

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