Sapa Trekking and Market Tour By Bus

6:30 – 7:00: Guide will pick up you in your hotel and then depart for Sapa. You will have the opportunity to enjoy beautiful scenery of the region on the road.

12:00: After about a 5- hour driver with short break en route, you arriveSapa Town. Enjoy lunch in local restaurant and check in

14:30: Driver and guide take you to visit MuongHoa Valley. Spectacular scenery of the highest part of Hoang Lien Range including Fansipan Peak. Then the valley suddenly opens wide as you reach to Lao Chai. From high evevationfo the road you can see the whole valley, the Muong Hoa River winds its way through the valley bottom and small villages and hamlets of the Hmong and Dzay peoples scattering on the other side of the river, even very high on hill slopes. Leaving the main road, you will tak a walk following the foot path downhill and then crossing the river to the other side to pay visiting to Lao Chai village of the Hmong and Ta Van of the Zay during which you will drop in several local homes for experiencing their hospitability as well as observing the traditional living way.

17:00 : you will be transferred back to your hotel

Breakfast at hotel then we will depart to Bac Ha market. 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 Sapa. Overnight at hotel in Sapa.

After breakfast 9:00 am: you start the trip on foot to explore the Cat Cat – Sin Chai village of ethnic Hmong – discovered by the French who chose to use the area as a resort in the early twentieth century. Coming to Cat Cat Village, visitors will be visiting hydropower station, waterfall of the Cat Cat village, and learn about the culture, customs and unique people here with traditional crafts such as weaving, carved silver, forged agricultural tools, to drag his wife…

12:00: Pick up from Cat Cat village back to Sa Pa town. Enjoy lunch at local restaurant then you have 2 hours free to visit Sa pa town for shopping and sightseeing.

16:00: The driver take you back to Hanoi. End of tour.