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Simplify your visit to Northern Vietnam’s Sapa area on this small-group tour from Hanoi. Save time by catching an overnight train from the capital. Arrive in the mountainous area the next day ready to hike through terraced countryside dotted with ethnic minority villages. Trek through the Muong Hoa Valley in the Hoang Lien Son Mountains to the hill tribe villages of the Hmong, Zay, and Red Zao peoples. Experience traditional hospitality during a 1-night homestay in Ta Van village.
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Simplify your visit to Northern Vietnam’s Sapa area on this small-group tour from Hanoi. Save time by catching an overnight train from the capital. Arrive in the mountainous area the next day ready to hike through terraced countryside dotted with ethnic minority villages. Trek through the Muong Hoa Valley in the Hoang Lien Son Mountains to the hill tribe villages of the Hmong, Zay, and Red Zao peoples. Experience traditional hospitality during a 1-night homestay in Ta Van village.
Simplify your visit to Northern Vietnam’s Sapa area on this small-group tour from Hanoi. Save time by catching an overnight train from the capital. Arrive in the mountainous area the next day ready to hike through terraced countryside dotted with ethnic minority villages. Trek through the Muong Hoa Valley in the Hoang Lien Son Mountains to the hill tribe villages of the Hmong, Zay, and Red Zao peoples. Experience traditional hospitality during a 1-night homestay in Ta Van village.
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Pickup starts 15 min before departure
We will pick up guests in Hanoi Old Quarter Area then transfer you to Hanoi Railway Station for get overnight train to Sapa
If guests stay outside of old quarter area, please come to our tour office: Local Tours Vietnam Office at 39 Ngo Huyen street
Train arrive Hanoi at 5.30 AM next day morning, where you can easy take taxi on your own to your hotel. End of your trip.
At 8.30 PM: Our staff pick you up in the hotel then drive to Hanoi station for a night train to Sapa (overnight on the train, the cabin with 4 berths, soft sleeper and air-conditioning and share with other persons. There are several train depart from Hanoi station between 7pm to 10pm, the journey is about 8 hours, the end in Lao Cai Station. We usually use train at 10 PM. Overnight on the train
6:30 – Be greeted by our guide and driver upon arrival at Lao Cai Train Station before being transferred to Sapa by a shared bus. The ride uphill to Sapa takes a little over an hour
On arrival at the hotel in Sapa, enjoy an early check-in if the room is available, otherwise in the interim, you will have access to a basic room for refreshment before having breakfast.
Start trekking at 9:30 to visit Y Linh Ho and Lao Chai villages of the H’mong minority. after lunch at a local family in Lao Chai or in a drinking shop nearby the river bank, we keep on hiking to Ta Van village of the Dzay where we stay overnight in a local family. Here you have opportunity to experience their daily life, work and original custom.
Y Linh Ho is a little commune composed by a dozen of little hamlets scattering on the severe mountain terrain with high and steep hills.
Lao Chai village where the black H’mong people are living, it is also the beginning of a valley which is called Muong Hoa valley.
Breakfast will be serving at the homestay at about 8Am. Start trekking at 9:30 Am 8 km walking to visit 2 villages of the red Dzao, the H’mong (Giang Ta Chai & Su Pan). Visit a beautiful waterfall and rattan bridge. Enjoy landscapes… through bamboo forest on the way to the main road to get the bus to return to Sapa. Have lunch on the way trekking.
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Supan Village Sapa is a very mountainous commune since it perches on the mountain. Being a part of the highland on the east side of the main road, it is about 17 km from Sapa town and Su Pan commune with its 4 small hamlets is home of the Black H’mong and Red Zao. Crossing the Muong Hoa River up to the mountain where is Su Pan village. Su Pan commune can be referred to as “mountainous commune”.
After Giang Ta Chai and Su Pan visits, it is hard to have to leave this area, but we again have opportunity to do more exploration in Sapa town, so the bus ride allows some recovery time... and lots of photos and stories will no doubt be told on the brief ride back. We will arrive back to Sapa about 14h30 PM to 15h00 PM. Have free time to explore the town or relaxing by yourself before take bus to Lao Cai Train Station for night train nto Hanoi.
Train depart at Lao Cai Railway Station , you will sleep on the night train to Hanoi (about 8 hours). Train arrive Hanoi at 5.30 AM next day morning, where you can easy take taxi on your own to your hotel. End of your trip.
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