AROUND SAPA TREK: SAPA – TA VAN – BAN HO
(Around Sapa Trek in 4 days, 5 nights. Daily departure.)
Booking Code For Hill Tribal Villages Around Sapa Trek: OV18
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Night 1: Hanoi – Lao Cai
21:00 – Pick up at your hotel in Hanoi and transfer to Hanoi Railway Station for boarding to Laocai by Tulico Express Train. Overnight on the A/c soft sleeper Cabin. (4 people/cabin or 2 people/cabin on request).
Day 1: Laocai – Sapa – Ta Van: 5 hours trekking, 14 km, 3 villages.
06:00 – Arrive at Lao Cai train station. Welcome by your local guide and driver. Transfer to your Sapa for breakfast & relax. Take a jeep ride for the first part and go down a hill to the valley. Cross Muong Hoa River to get to the other mountainside for 3 villages of the H’mong and the Dzay. Stay the night with a local family in Tavan village. Picnic lunch on the way. Dinner and homestay in the village.
Day 2: Ta Van – Ban Ho, 7 hours trekking, 18 km, 3 villages.
Breakfast and leave the family for the next village. Visit the Red Dzao in Giang Ta Chai village by way of terraced paddy fields and bamboo forests. Enjoy the natural beauty of Silver Waterfall and Rattan Bridge. Cross the river and continue going to Ban Ho village where the Tay people settle down. on the way to Ban Ho, there is more chance to see the Red Dzao and the Black H’mong in Supan village. Spend the night in Ban Ho village at a Tay Family. Picnic lunch on the way. Dinner and homestay in the village.
Day 3: Ban Ho – Sapa, 3 hours trekking of 7 km and 23 km by jeep.
Breakfast with the family and leave the village for a waterfall discovered by French people. Enjoy the view, swimming and return to Ban Ho to visit the people in the village. Say goodbye to the family and get up to the main road where to take a jeep back to Sapa. Lunch on the way. Dinner at the local restaurant. Overnight at your proposed hotel in Sapa.
Day 4: Sapa – Lao Cai – Hanoi. End of Hill Tribal Villages Around Sapa Trek.
Breakfast at the hotel. Free at leisure. Check out the hotel at noon. Lunch on the guest account. Free until the transfer to Lao Cai train station for boarding to Hanoi by Tulico Express Train (20:45 – 05:00). End of services.
AROUND SAPA TREK: SAPA – LAO CAI – TA VAN – GIANG TA CHAI – COC LY MARKET
(3 days, 4 nights. Weekly departure on Saturday)
Booking code: OV19
Night 1: (Saturday) Hanoi – Laocai
21:00 – Pick up at your hotel in Hanoi and transfer to Hanoi Railway Station for boarding to Laocai by Tulico Express Train. Overnight on the A/c soft sleeper Cabin. (4 people/cabin or 2 people/cabin on request).
Day 1: (Sunday) Sapa – Lao Chai village – Ta Van village
06:00 – Arrive at Laocai train station. Welcome by your local guide and driver. Transfer to your Sapa for breakfast & relax. Breakfast and shower. Start from Sapa at 10:00 by jeep and then get down to a valley, visit an H’mong village and the hydroelectric power station built by the French. Take a small path to go and visit the other 2 villages of the H’mong and the Dzay people (Lao Chai and Ta Van village). Stay in Ta Van at a Dzay family. Picnic lunch on the way and dinner at the family. Overnight at Ta Van village. (6 hours trekking, 16 km, 3 villages).
Day 2: (Monday) Ta Van Village – Giang Ta Chai Village – Sapa
Breakfast at the homestay, take the road to Giang Ta Chai village to see the Red Dzao people via the paths through terraces and bamboo forests. Visit a waterfall, a suspension bridge. Picnic lunch and cross the river. Visit an H’mong village up to the mountain. Take a jeep back to Sapa. Visit the ancient stone circle on the way back. Check-in hotel. Dinner at a local restaurant. Overnight at your proposed hotel in Sapa. (5 hours trekking, 14 km, 2 villages)
Day 3: (Tuesday) Sapa – Coc Ly market – Boat Trip On Chay River
Breakfast at the hotel. 07:00 depart for Coc Ly market which is situated far from Sapa. Enjoy the peaceful life of different minority peoples (Flower H’mong, Black Dzao, Tay, Dzay). The market is the chance for the minorities to meet and share joy and sorrows after the crops, to exchange one another’s experience. Say goodbye to the market and get down onto a boat along the Chay river. You are bound to feel great and find yourselves smaller among high Rock Mountains and to be surprised at white and breathtaking waterfalls. Get off the boat to visit a village of the Tay Minority (Trung Do village) by the river. After the boat trip, visit a small town – Bao Nhai and then take the jeep back to Laocai Station for the night train to Hanoi. Dinner at a local restaurant. Overnight on the A/c soft sleeper Cabin. End of services.
AROUND SAPA TREK: SAPA – CAT CAT – SIN CHAI – GIANG TA CHAI
(2 days, 3 nights. Daily departure)
Booking code: OV20
Night 1: Hanoi – Laocai
21:00 – Pick up at your hotel in Hanoi and transfer to Hanoi Railway Station for boarding to Laocai by Tulico Express Train. Overnight on the A/c soft sleeper Cabin. (4 people/cabin or 2 people/cabin on request).
Day 1: Lao Cai – Cat Cat – Sin Chai (5 hours trekking, 12 km, 2 villages)
06:00 – Arrive at Laocai train station. Welcome by your local guide and driver. Transfer to your hotel for check-in hotel, have breakfast, and shower. Trek around 14 km to visit 2 villages of the Black H’mong (Cat Cat and Sin Chai). Picnic lunch at a waterfall and this is a chance to see the hydroelectric power station established by the French. Jeep from Cat Cat back to Sapa roughly 16:00. Dinner at a local restaurant. Overnight at your proposed hotel in Sapa.
Day 2: Sapa – Giang Ta Chai – Sapa (7 hours trekking, 17 km, 3 villages)
Breakfast at the hotel. Get the show on the road in the morning from the hotel by jeep to head for the valley where to visit 2 villages of the H’mong and the Dzay. Picnic lunch on the way or in a local family. Go on visiting the Red Dzao in Giang Ta Chai village, visiting a waterfall and a suspension bridge. Walk up to the road for the jeep back to Sapa. Dinner at a local restaurant. Transfer to Laocai train station for boarding to Hanoi by Tulico Express Train (20:45 – 05:00). End of services.
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Hello, we are a family of three (parents and 16 year old son) and will stay in Hanoi in february. From there we would like to do a Hilltribe trekking in the North. Can you give us an indication of the price of the trekkings you offer?
Thank you very much. Yours sincerely,
Veronika Christiaanse
Dear Veronika Christiaanse. The cost for a private tour (we don’t run group tours) is roughly 120$US/day/person (more or less depending on final itinerary). All inclusive, except drinks and personal medical insurance. Please advise your thoughts.