Sapa Ethnic Trekking Adventure 4 days/5nights

Tour Duration: 4days - 5 nights

Rounts: Hanoi- Sapa -Cat Cat - Y Linh Ho – Tavan - Seomity – Den Thang - Ta Trung Ho - Nam Toong - Ban Ho – Sapa

Starts: Hanoi train station

Ends: Hanoi train station

Tour Level: Hard adventure

Group size: Private tour only

Night 1: Hanoi- Laocai (O/N on train)

Day1: Laocai - Sapa - Catcat - Ylinhho - Laochai - Tavan

Day 2: Tavan - Seomity

Day 3: seomity - Denthang - Tatrungho

Day 4: Tatrungho- Namtoong - Banho- Sapa - Night train back Hanoi.

Day 01: Hanoi – Night train to Lao Cai – Sapa

Overnight on train

Day 02: Sapa - Cat Cat - Y Linh Ho – Tavan ( L, D)

Pick up at station in the early morning, transfer to hotel in Sapa, having breakfast then meet local guide start your trek through the market and leave the busy town behind. After a couple of minutes, you follow a road going downhill to Cat Cat village. You will stop by a waterfall and a hydroelectric station for a while before you 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 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 spend the night in local house of Giay minority. You will be able to take a walk to enjoy the valley view as well as swim in the river nearby.

Approx: 5 hours walking/ 1-hour lunch.

Day 03: Tavan - Seomity (B, L, D)

After having breakfast, you start today’s trek, which is mostly uphill until lunchtime. Whenever you stop for a rest, you will be able to enjoy valley view. Before noon, you stop again at a nice spot for lunch.

The trek will be softer in the afternoon. But the scenery becomes even more beautiful. You pass by Seomity village of Black Hmong minority before you arrive in a campsite, which locates nearby a river outside the village. While porters put up tents and cook dinner, you can take a walk to stretch the legs.

Approx: 4 hours walking/ 1 hour lunch

Day 04: Seomity – Den Thang - Ta Trung Ho (B, L, D)

The trek today takes you through beautiful rice paddies and over old suspension bridges. You will trek on small trail sneaking through rainforest. You arrive in Den Thang village of Black Hmong by noon. Here you stop for lunch either nearby a river or in a local school according to the weather.

After lunch, the trek will becomes tough on tinny footpath going up and down, which requires a lot of concentration. You will reach to Ta Trung Ho village of Red Dao minority where you spend the night in local house. Both the valley and the village have just received foreign visitors. The night will be even more interesting when you are in the wonderful hospitable atmosphere of the Red Dao.

Approx: 4 hours walking, 1-hour lunch

Day 05: Ta Trung Ho - Nam Toong - Ban Ho – Sapa (B, L, )

You are now at the fringe of the rain forest by the Hoang Lien Son mountain range. Fansipan, the highest peak in Indochina with its 3143 m, is located in this mountain range. You will start the trek today by ascending to Nam Toong village of Red Dao minority. Here your lunch will be prepared in a local school. In the afternoon, before descending to Ban Ho, you can make a stop by a waterfall to refresh. Then our car takes you on the journey back to Sapa. Evening transfer to Lao Cai station for a night train to Hanoi.

Approx: 1-hour driving/ 4 hours walking/ 1-hour lunch

Day 06: Hanoi arrival

Arrival Hanoi in the early morning,  Back to your hotel by yourself. End of all the services.

What is including:

- Transfer and transportation vehicle.

- Overnight in local house or tent

- English speaking guide

- Train ticket: Hanoi – Lao Cai – Hanoi ( cabin 4 berth-soft sleeper)

- Black Hmong porters (to carry food and luggage)

- Cooker (from group sizes of 6 clients)

- All indicated meals, plus snacks (B as breakfast; L as lunch; D as dinner)

- Sleeping bag and mattresses

- Tents if needed

- Mosquito net

- All entrance fees and permit

-Inssurant on trek

What is excluded?

- Personal Pocket Money

- Other meals and Soft drink (beer, coca cola…)

- Travel Insurance

- All other services not indicated above