About this tour

Sapa – Cat Cat – Fansipan – Can Cau Market

Duration: 3 Day 2 Nights / Transport: Sleeping bus

Departure: Friday every week

Visitors experience the natural beauty from Hanoi to Sapa by Sleeping bus.

Tourists visit Cat Cat village – the living village of the Hmong people, attracts visitors with simple wooden houses, small murmuring streams, colorful brocade panels and friendly ethnic people.

Visitors come to Fansipan Cable Car Station to start the journey to conquer Fansipan with the world’s most modern 3-wire cable car system with a cabin that can accommodate up to 30 visitors. After passing 600 green stone steps, you have reached the top of Fansipan at an altitude of 3,143m, the roof of Indochina. From here, zooming in on the four surroundings, each person will have special feelings and wishes that they just want to keep for themselves.

Can Cau market is a typical market of ethnic minorities (mainly Giay, Mong and Hoa) located along TL153 road – a unique dirt road connecting Bac Ha town with Si Ma border town Cai, in the territory of Can Cau commune, Si Ma Cai district, Lao Cai province. The market usually meets on the following days: every Saturday, public holiday, New Year of the year, lasting from early morning to past noon. This is also the largest buffalo market in the Northwest with hundreds of buffaloes traded in each market.

Itinerary

Day 1: Hanoi – Noi Bai – SaPa – Cat Cat( – / L / D )

06:00 – 7:00: Our Sleeping bus will pick you at pre-arranged pick up points in the Old Quarter and depart to Sapa following Noi Bai – Lao Cai highway. Along the way, you will have a chance to enjoy the beauty of northwestern mountains, terraced fields sparkling in the sunlight, or dim in thick fog. Have two short-time breaks in 30 minutes for each and then continue the trip to Sapa.

13:00: Arrive in Sapa, have lunch and check in at the hotel. 

14.30: Tour guide picks you up and takes you to visit Cat Cat village to learn about the daily life of the H’mong ethnic people in the village, visit Tien Sa waterfall. Enjoy a traditional musical performance at the old hydroelectric power station.

18:00: Having dinner. After dinner, you are free to explore the charm of Sapa by night, enjoy roasted corn, baked eggs beside charcoal fire or go shopping. Especially on Saturday night, we highly recommend a stop at the Love Market – one of the unique cultures of ethnic minorities in northwest Vietnam. Overnight at a hotel in Sapa.

Day 2: SaPa – Can Cau Market – SaPa ( B / L / D )

6:30: Have breakfast in the hotel.

7:00: The car picks you up at the hotel and departs for Simacai to witness a very large and unique market that is Can Cau Market. This is a typical market of ethnic minorities (mainly Giay, Mong and Hoa) located along the road TL153 – a unique dirt road connecting Bac Ha town with the border town of Si Ma Cai, located in Can Cau commune, Si Ma Cai district, Lao Cai province. The market usually meets on the following days: every Saturday, public holiday, New Year of the year, lasting from early morning to past noon. This is also the largest buffalo market in the Northwest with hundreds of buffaloes traded in each market.

10:00: Arriving at the market, you are free to shop and learn about the unique culture of the locality. Join the bustling and fun atmosphere at the market, and try the possibility of shopping with the locals here.

12:00: Have lunch at the restaurant. You can also enjoy a special local dish, which is Thang Co drink with the famous Bac Ha corn wine.

13:30: After lunch, you get on the bus back to Sapa.

17:00: Back to the hotel to rest.

18:00: Have dinner. Free evening fun. You can take a bath with Red Dao medicinal leaves to relax after a day of sightseeing to relax and recuperate (own expense). Overnight in Sapa.

Day 3: SaPa – Fansipan – Hanoi ( B / L / – )

7:00: Have breakfast at the hotel and relax. Enjoy a cup of hot coffee in the morning at the restaurant.

8:00: Car and guide take you to Fansipan Cable Car Station to start the journey to conquer Fansipan by the world’s most modern 3-wire cable car system with a cabin that can accommodate up to 30 visitors.

Then continue conquering to the top of Fansipan at 3.143m higher from sea-level, the roof of Indochina.

11:30: Back to Sapa, have lunch and rest.

12:45: The car will take you to the sleeper bus point to get on the bus back to Hanoi.

19:00: The car can drop off passengers at Kim Anh intersection or drop off passengers at Noi Bai Airport.

19:30: Arrive Hanoi. Tour ends. See you again!

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