BacHa & Cocly - Special markets & Boat trip

BacHa & Cocly - special markets & boat trip

• Beautiful and colorful Sunday and Tuesday Market of the hill tribal peoples living around Coc Ly Commune and the northern region of Bac Ha District with festival atmosphere. Meeting to hill tribal peoples such as: Flower Hmong, Black Zao, Tay, Nung..., who go to the market in their bast traditional costume not only for shopping but mainly for socializing.


• Magnificient and stunning landscapes of the mountainous region in the far-north and Chay River Massif.

Day 1: Hanoi - Laocai

• 20 : 00 pm - Pick up at your hotel in Hanoi and transfer to Hanoi railway station for boarding the Express Train to Laocai. Overnight in an air-conditioned soft sleeper wooden cabin.

Day 2: (Sunday): Lao Cai – Bac Ha market – Sapa ( B/ L/ D) 

• Picked up at Laocai Railway Station then drive to BacHa market. 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 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.


• Overnight at the hotel in Sapa town


• Three stars hotel standard:  Royal View Sapa hotel


• Address: 34 Cau May St - Sapa - Lao Cai

 
Day 3: (Monday): Sapa – Ban Ho – Sapa ( B/ L/ D)

• Breakfast at the hotel. Start your trip buy take a jeep to Supan village and trek down to Ban Ho village. Have luch at the village then a short walk to visit the village of the Tay ethnic people who have houses on stilts. Back to Sapa.


• Dinner at the local restaurant.


• Overnight at the hotel in Sapa town


• Three stars hotel standard:  Royal View Sapa hotel


• Address: 34 Cau May St - Sapa - Lao Cai

 Day 4: (Tuesday): Sapa – Coc Ly market – Lao Cai ( B/ L/ D )

• Breakfast at the hotel then leave from Sapa early at 7:00 AM for CocLy market, which is situated far from Sapa. Enjoy the peaceful life of 6 different minority peoples (Flower H'mong, Black Dzao, Tay, Dzay, HaNhi and Nung).


• 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. The Fairy Cave is located deeply in the rocks. 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 – Bao Nhai and then take jeep back to Laocai Station for the night train to Hanoi.


• Overnigh on the A/c soft sleeper cabin. Arrive in Hanoi roughly 4:30 AM.


• The end of tour.

Include:

• Pick ups, transfer & sightseeing as per program by A/c private Russian jeep or minibus


• Full meals as per the tour program (B = Breakfast, L = Lunch, D = Dinner)


• English speaking guide


• Entrance fees


• Mineral water on bus


• Accommodation based on Twin/double room share


• Train tickets: Hanoi - Laocai - Hanoi (soft sleeper with air-conditioning 4 pax / cabin)

Exclude:

• Travel Insurance


• Drinks & other meals not mentioned in the program


• Personal expense


• Single supplement (US$42 per person)

Note:

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

Sapa Trible Villages and Bac Ha Market tour

Sapa Trible Villages and Bac Ha Market tour, Joining some thousands tribal peoples from different ethnic groups in their colorful traditional costumes who gather at regional markets for their most important event of the week, you will quickly absorbed by festive atmosphere and understand the important role of these markets in spiritual life of local ethnic peoples. This is a can-not-be-missed experience offered by our Sapa Market Excursions which are made for those who are interested in discovering new cultures and especially for photo hunters.Get started: (Thursday) Hanoi - Laocai

 

• 20:00 pm - Pick up at your hotel and transfer to Hanoi railway station to board the express train to Laocai.


• Overnight in an air-conditioned soft sleeper cabin.

Day 1 (Friday) Sapa Town's Highlights -  Ta Phin Village (B/L/D)

• Meet your Sapa tour guide and driver upon your arrival to Lao Cai Station. Transfer uphill the Hoang Lien Son mountains to Sapa with some stop for over viewing of stunning valleys and terraced rice fields along the way.


• After Breakfast your guide will show you around for a brief introduction of this charming town. At the market, ethnic minority people of different groups wearing their traditional costumes made by themselves comes every day selling local products includes vegetable, bamboo shoot, mushroom, medicinal herbs and souvenirs...there are chances to get intact and taking photos. Later you will follow the footsteps uphill to the top of Ham Rong Mountain for over viewing beautiful scenery of the town and surrounding area, paying visit to an orchard garden and a mini museum which tells you a lot about ethnic minority people living in Sa Pa and the northwest region.


• After Lunch, transfer 14km to the center of Ta Phin valley, then you will enjoy an easy walk following village path, paying visit to some H'mong hamlets scattering from the bottom of the valley to higher mountain slopes. From high elevation, great view of the valley stretching under your foot. Continue your walk to the Red Zao village in which you will meet groups of women making handicrafts includes embroidered clothes, handbags...


• Transfer back to Sa Pa in late afternoon and the rest hours is at your leisure.


• Overnight in Sapa.

Day 2 (Saturday) Tribal Village Exploration in Muong Hoa Valley (B/L/D)

• Today you will spend the whole day exploring the spectacular Muong Hoa. A Jeep will take us out of the town, following the only road built on the side of a mountain range, looking down the valley, over viewing magnificent landscapes composed of high mountains, deep valleys, and stream of water winding, waterfalls and terraced rice paddies...Many time, leaving the main road, you will visit tribal villages such as Ta Van of the Zay, Su Pan of the Black H'mong, Ban Ho of the Tay...there are chances for meeting and contacting locals at home and at works. We leave Ban Ho in late afternoon for a drive back to Sapa.


• Evening is at your leisure.


• Overnight in Sapa.

Day 3 (Sunday) Full day joining the famous Bac Ha Market (B/L/D)

• Every day always begins very early in Vietnam. Especially on Sunday in Bac Ha. You will be waken up, having Breakfast and check out your hotel early before seven.


• Leaving Sapa at 07.00 for a transfer 3 hours down hill to Lao Cai and later uphill to Bac Ha. As you get close to The market, you will see lot of Flower H'mong with their horses loading with selling's along the way. Arriving at the most crowded time of the market you will join some thousands local tribal peoples such as Flower H'mong, Tay, Zao and Phu La who are in their colorful traditional dresses shoping, talking, enjoying food...The most colorful part is clothes section while the most interesting ones probably the food stalls and animal market. Be noted that the small animals such as chicken, piggy... are sold in narrow ground at the main market place but buffaloes, horses market lies about 3 hundred meters away near the main motor way.


• Some hours getting excited with the market activities and festive atmosphere, Lunch will be served in a local restaurant with set menu and you may try H'mong home made corn wine.


• Afternoon will be highlighted with a short walk around Ban Pho Village of the Flower H'mong and Tay peoples which includes some small hamlets set amongst lush plump gardens, terraced paddies and mountain back drops for a local breath. Then transfer to Laocai station for boarding the night train to Hanoi.


• Overnight in an air-conditioned soft sleeper cabin.


• End of Sapa Trible Villages and Bac Ha Market tour.

Include:

• Train tickets King Express/Livitrans train Hanoi- Lao Cai- Hanoi, soft sleeper, wooden cabin with A/C.


• All meals as mentioned in the tour program ( B= Breakfast, L= Lunch, D= Dinner)


• All entrance fees


• Hotel pick up and transfer as tour program


• English speaking tour guide/ French Guide


• Accommodation (2 nights at three stars hotel: Paradise Sapa hotel, Bamboo Sapa hotel, Royal View hotel...)

Exclude:

• Travel Insurance


• Drinks & other meals not mentioned in the program


• Single supplement


• Personal expense

Muong Hum Market and Sapa Tribal Villages Explore tour

Muong Hum Market and Sapa Tribal Villages Explore tour, attending tribal Sunday Market in Muong Hum for encountering the most variety of tribal peoples in their colorful traditional dresses, enjoying fresh smell from exotic herbs and spices,.. walking along the trails winding up and down hills in spectacular Ta Phin and Muong Hoa Valleys, paying visit to Red Zao, Black H'mong or Zay villages and homes... They are all unforgettable experiences included in this trip.

Get started: (Saturday) Hanoi - Laocai

• 20: 00 pm - Pick up at your hotel and transfer to Hanoi railway station to board the express train to Laocai. Overnight in an air-conditioned soft sleeper cabin.

Day 1: (Sunday) Laocai - MuongHum Market - Sapa Town (B/L/D)

• At 6.00 am, Arrive at Laocai Train station. Pick up at Laocai Train Station to transfer to Muong Hum market. It takes almost 2 hours to get to MuongHum - a small & traditional market situated among ethnic villages. The market deeply shows the typical cultural features of Vietnam's remote areas. Leave the market and transfer to Sapa. On the way, spend time visiting silver water, visiting a village of the Black H'mong and then reach Sapa and check in hotel.


• Overnight in Sapa.

Day 2: Sapa - Laochai - TaVan Village - 3 villages (B/L/D)

• Breakfast at the hotel. Depart Sapa for the trekking at 10:00 AM. Take the main road by jeep and go down hill to the valley. Cross MuongHoa River to get to the other mountainside for 3 villages with rice terraces: Y Linh Ho, Laochai, and Tavan. Stay the night at a local family in Tavan village and in night time enjoy culture performance show with Zay Ethnic people.


• Overnight at Home stay HOUSE

Day 3: TaVan village - Giang Ta Chai Village - Sapa - Night train to Hanoi, 5 hours trekking 2 villages (B/L/D)

• Get up in the morning to enjoy the daily life of the ethnic minorities in the village. Breakfast, take the road to GiangTa Chai village of the Red Dzao minority via the paths between terraces and through bamboo forests. Visit silver waterfall and suspension Rattan Bridge, visit the people in the village and then cross MuongHoa River up to the mountain to visit the last village of the trek - Supan village of the H'mong. Get back to Sapa by jeep. On the way back, enjoy visiting the ancient stone circle where stones are decorated with ancient carvings. Reach Sapa. Then transfer to Lao Cai station for taking the night train to Hanoi.


• Overnight in an air-conditioned soft sleeper cabin.


• End of your Muong Hum Market and Sapa Tribal Villages Explore tour.

Include:

• Train tickets King Express/Livitrans train Hanoi- Lao Cai- Hanoi, soft sleeper, wooden cabin with A/C.


• All meals as mentioned in the tour program ( B= Breakfast, L= Lunch, D= Dinner)


• All entrance fees


• Hotel pick up and transfer as tour program


• English speaking tour guide/ French Guide


• Accommodation (1 night at three stars hotel: Paradise Sapa hotel, Bamboo Sapa hotel, Royal View hotel... 1 night at homestay)

Exclude:

• Travel Insurance


• Drinks & other meals not mentioned in the program


• Single supplement


• Personal expense

Note:

• Departure: Every Saturday evening from Hanoi