Tour Program
Day1: Hanoi – night train to Lao Cai
In the evening, our guide will pick you up at your hotel for transfer to the train station for your night train to Lao Cai. Overnight on sleeper train.
Summary:
Transfer: Private modern AC vehicle/ Overnight train
Guide: Local English speaking guide
Meals: NA
Accommodation: soft sleeper wooden AC cabin/ sharing for 4 persons
Day 2: Lao Cai – Sapa – trekking to the village
Early morning arrive to Lao Cai. Welcome and pick up by our driver then transfer to Sapa. Located at the attitude of about 1,600m and was built by the French into a famous summer Resort, Sapa famous not only for its breathtaking landscapes, but also is an ideal inhabitation for a great diversity of ethnic minority peoples such as H’ mong, Zao, Tay or Giay… people. Around 9am Meet up at your hotel in Sapa by local guide and driver for a short transfer to Cat Cat village. After a couple of minutes, you follow steps going downhill to Cat Cat village. You will stop by a waterfall and a hydroelectric station for a while before continuing the trek on a dirt trail through rice paddy terraces. You also will enjoy spectacular scenery while walking along a narrow river. You eventually arrive in Y Linh Ho village of Black Hmong minority, where you can take a rest while you are served lunch nearby the river.
After lunch, you head toward Muong Hoa valley. You will pass through Lao Chai village of Black Hmong minority and then Tavan village of Giay minority by following a very popular trekking route. You will return Sapa from Tavan by car. Dinner is on your own, overnight in hotel
Summary:
Transfer: Private modern AC vehicle
Guide: Local English speaking guide
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Accommodation: Hotel in Sapa
Day 3: Sapa – Silver waterfall & Heaven Gate – night train back to Hanoi
Morning 9am meet your guide and driver for a leisure trip. The drive uphill offers most spectacular scenery of Fansipan Mount. Just a kilometer out of the town, rose flower farms and later chayote grows on bamboo frames covered a vast area. We’ll stop at the magnificent Silver Waterfall before continue the road trip for some kilometers further to Heaven Gate and Tram Ton Pass. At 2047m above sea level, the Heaven Gate & Tram Ton Pass is the highest mountain pass in Vietnam. From here enjoy walking around for half an hour for beautiful scenery of both two side of Hoang Lien Son mountain range. The wind blows stronger to force the clouds moving constantly. It is the best point here to enjoy breathtaking scenery of the two side of Fansipan Mountain Range. Amazingly that the weather is very different by the side: In many days It is foggy and cloudy on Sa Pa side and sunny brightly the other side.
Leaving the Heaven Gate for the way back downhill 7 km, then stop to pay visiting to some lush farm in O Quy Ho where different kind of vegetable, flower, fruit trees and even medicinal plants are grown for years which makes this part of Sapa ever green. Back to Sapa town at noon time, lunch is on your own
Free time until 17:30, transfer to Lao Cai train station for your night train back to Hanoi. Meals are on your own. Overnight on train
Summary:
Transfer: Private modern AC vehicle/ Overnight train
Guide: Local English speaking (no guide for afternoon and see off train station )
Meals: Breakfast
Accommodation: soft sleeper wooden AC cabin/ sharing for 4 persons
Day 4: Hanoi arrival – trip ends
Arrive at Hanoi train station in the early morning around 5am. Trip ends.
