Day 1: (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. 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
Day 2: (Monday): Sapa – Ban Ho – Sapa ( B/L/D)
Jeep to Supan village
and a short walk to BanHo village to visit the Tay ethnic people who
have houses on stilts. Lunch at a local family. Back to Sapa, free time
to see Sapa town and later on overnight at your hotel
Day 3: (Tuesday): Sapa – Coc Ly market – Lao Cai (B/L)
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.