sapa bac ha market 3 days/ 4 nights

Bac Ha Market nestled in the northern hills of Vietnam, opens only on Sundays, the ethnic minorities from the surrounding villages and hills come to socialize, eat, drink...

itinerary

The first night: Hotel - Hanoi Railways Station or Bus Station. (no meals)

+ 8: 00 PM. You will be picked up from your hotel to Hanoi Railway Station to take the night train to Lao Cai Station.

Day I: Lao Cai Station - Sapa - Lao Chai - Ta Van Villages. (breakfast, lunch, dinner).

+ 6:00 our guide is waiting for you at Lao Cai Station. After a warmly welcome, our bus will take you to our hotel in Sapa town (after 1 hour transferring by bus) for checking in, shower, rest and breakfast.

+ After having rest and breakfast you will joint our group for Sapa trekking tour. The first place you are trekking to Lao Chai village for visiting the Black H’mong people.

+ Lunch on the way then keeping to the bottom of Muong Hoa valley to get to the most beautiful ethnic village-Ta Van village, the village of DZay people. After spending there some hours you will have dinner in a DZay family in Ta Van village and then spending a quiet night in our home stay in Ta Van.

Day II: Sapa - Cat Cat - Sin Chai village. (breakfast, lunch, dinner)

+ A walk down to the South-west of Sapa (around 4 km) to visit Cat Cat village of the Black H’mong. Relax at the food of the stunning waterfall and the vestige of a hydroelectric power station that was constructed by the French during the colonial time in Vietnam.

+ Enjoy picnic lunch by the side of the river, and then next 6 km to Sin Chai, the village located at the foot of Fansipan Mountain, “the roof of Vietnam and Indochina”. From here you can enjoy huge stunning landscapes before climbing up on the way a Car to return to Sapa.

+ Dinner and free visiting Sapa town.

+ Sleep in a hotel.

Day III: Sapa - Bac Ha Market - Lao Cai Station - Hanoi. (breakfast, lunch, dinner)

+ Finishing breakfast then our bus will pick you to Bac Ha Market. After about 3 hours you will reach Bac Ha Market for visiting. Here you have a good chance to see a place where many different ethnic groups coming here to change their handmade products of different cultures. Leaving the Market for King’s House built by French colonists and Chinese.

+ Back the town for lunch and visiting Ban Pho village, take rest and come back Sapa then our bus will take you to Lao Cai Station for returning Hanoi Station.

+ 6:00 AM next morning the train will reach Hanoi Station and the tour finishes.

Inclusions:

- Return deluxe train tickets (soft sleeper with air-conditioned cabin, 4 people one cabin).

- All meals as mentioned above.

- English speaking guide.

- Bus and motor bike transfers.

- Entrance fees.

- Hotel and home stay.

Price: per person.

- US$ 152 to go by train. Single room: US$ 167.

- US$ 117. to go by bus. Single room: US$ 132.

Note. Bac Ha Market opens only on Sunday morning so program may be changed to be suitable to the trip.