Best Of Sapa Market Tour To Can Cau and Bac Ha

Best Of Sapa Market Tour To Can Cau and Bac Ha

Duration: 2Days 3Nights

Departure Place: Hanoi

Price : $245

Sapa is one of the most wonderful places in Asia, as well as a magical combination of landscapes, ethnic cultures and bracing mountain air. There are excellent areas for discovering the lifestyle through traditional markets. Can Cau and Bac Ha markets are both very well known. You will explore traditional market of the local tribal group including Flower H’mong, Black Zao, Phu La and Tay for the festive market activities where peoples in their best traditional costume gather every Saturday and Sunday for shopping and socializing. Do not hesitate to go to Sapa and discover local life by joining markets in Sapa which are not only a feast for the eyes but also a live museum that gives you a glimpse into the fascinating ethnic mosaic of the region.

Tour Code:SMT-02

Tour Route: Hanoi – Lao Cai – Can Cau market – Bac Ha market – Lao Cai – Hanoi

Tour Duration:2Days 3Nights

Dates: Daily Departure

Starts / Ends:Hanoi/Hanoi

Tour Customizable: Absolutely good, please tell us your holiday wish list!

Group size: Private tour designs for any group size upon your request.

9:00 pm – Mini bus will pick you up from hotel and transfer to Tran Quy Cap train station

10:00 pm – Train depart and you will sleep on train to Lao Cai.

Pick up at Lao Cai Station transfer to Sapa town for breakfast and relax.

Then, transfer by road 122km to Can Cau via Lao Cai city and Bac Ha Town let. The road is good but having many sharp bend with a long descend and a long ascend which takes about 3 hours including one or two breaks along the way.

Arrive to the market place at about 10.00 am. Spend two hours joining the local tribal peoples including Flower H’mong, Black Zao, Phu La and Tay for the festive market activities where peoples in their best traditional costume gather every Saturday for shopping and socializing. The right location of the market place also offers photo-hunters ideal opportunity for taking photos, not only of peoples in colorful traditional costumes but also breathtaking landscapes of the perfect surrounding. Leaving the market almost at noon, drirve 20 km back to Bac Ha town let for lunch break.

In the afternoon, you will take a walk to Ban Pho, a small village of Nung and Flower Hmong. The villagers grow vegetables and fruit trees. One of the most famous fruit of the area is plum. Visit a local house and taste a cup of corn wine, another famous product of the village.

Then go back to hotel late in the afternoon. Check in and overnight at hotel in Bac Ha

Breakfast at hotel.

Early departure from Bac Ha Town at about 08.00am Sunday morning to arrive to the market place. Spend three hours joining the local tribal peoples including Flower H’mong, Black Zao, Phu La and Tay for the market activities and festive atmosphere. All peoples in their best traditional costume gather every Sunday for shopping, but socializing is of great importance. The cattle and clothing sections are the most interesting until 11.00 and then come the food section where peoples meet, talk, enjoy food and especially drink a kind of locally made corn-wine.

Lunch break in a local restaurant. Then leave Bac Ha for half an hour road ride downhill to Trung Do village which is beautifully set in a valley on the eastern bank of the mighty Chay River. Take an hour leisure walk to explore this prosperous village of the Tay ethnic people who live in large stilt houses andl have maintained well their traditional way of life. Walk to the boat pier in mid afternoon, boarding a boat for cruising downstream the Chay River for an hour to BaoNhai. Boat cruise end at Bao Tan Village, near the motorway.

Picked up and transfer 45 km to Lao Cai city, spend half an hour to see trading activities at the border gate and coffee break before transfer to Lao Cai station for overnight on the train.

05:30 am – Arrive at Tran Quy Cap station (Hanoi). Our guide and driver will pick you up and take you to your hotel. End of service

Type RoomSmall GroupPrivate Tour
  • Train: King Express Train
  • Hotel: Ngan Nga Hotel
N/A $245
  • Train: Orient Express Train
  • Hotel: Ngan Nga Hotel
N/A $265

Notes:

Tour includes:

Meals indicated in itinerary

Transfer and transportation in Hanoi and Sapa

Train tickets Hanoi – Sapa – Hanoi (4 soft berth/cabin shared)

Accommodation in Bac Ha

Entrance fees & permits

English speaking guide

Tour excludes:

Personal travel insurance

Personal expenses: Bar, Telephone and Laundry bills

Drinks

Tips