About this tour

Sapa – Cat Cat Village – Ta Van Village – Giang Ta Chai Village

Duration: 3 Days 2 Nights / Transport: Sleeping bus

Departure: Daily

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 – Lao Chai – Ta Van Villages ( B – L –  D ) 

Morning: Have breakfast at the hotel. 

Begin trekking from Sapa towards the South East of Sapa alongside Muong Hoa valley to Y Linh Ho and Lao Chai village of the H’Mong minority.

12:00: Have a picnic lunch in the Black H’Mong house, discover their daily lifestyle and enjoy the landscape.

13:00: Continue your trekking to Ta Van village of Dzay minority people.

15:00 – 15:30: Check in and have dinner. Overnight at the homestay. You will have a chance to experience the real life of Ethnic people.

Day 3: Ta Van – Giang Ta Chai – Su Pan villages  (B, L )

8:00: Breakfast at homestay.

9:00: Take the road to Giang Ta 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.

12:00: Break for lunch.

13:00: Continue visiting the last village of the trek – Supan village of the H’mong.

14:30: Get back to Sapa by bus.

16:00: You will be transferred to the Bus station in Sapa and come back to Hanoi.

21:30: You will arrive in Hanoi. End tour.

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