2-Days Private Rice Terraces Fields & Authentic Sapa Tour

Make the most of your time in the mountains and don’t feel like you missed anything with this shared 2-day tour of the Sapa rice terraces. Begin by visiting the local Hmong villages of Cat Cat and Y Linh Ho, before stepping into bamboo forest and reaching the region’s rice terraces. After a night in Ta Van village, hike through the surrounding hills to the Giang Ta Chai waterfalls.

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Overview

✓Make the most of your time in the mountains and don’t feel like you missed anything with this shared 2-day tour of the Sapa rice terraces.
✓Begin by visiting the local Hmong villages of Cat Cat and Y Linh Ho, before stepping into bamboo forest and reaching the region’s rice terraces.
✓After a night in Ta Van village, hike through the surrounding hills to the Giang Ta Chai waterfalls.

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What’s Included

✓1 big bottle of water/per person
✓Transport back to Sapa after ends of the tour in villages
✓Lunch
✓Dinner
✓Breakfast

What’s NOT Included

✗Personal travel insurance
✗Extra drinks (e.g. bottled water or beer) at the homestay

What to Bring

•Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
•Not recommended for pregnant travelers
•Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
•Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness

Meeting and Pickup

🚐Hotel pickup OR meet at start point

189 pickup locations available — or request your own hotel

Pickup starts 15 min before departure

We will meet at your hotel in Sapa town OR in front of Sapa’s main church When you arrive in Sapa, if you have the internet on your phone, please try to search on the google map this address call: "Notre Dame Cathedral Sapa" or " Nha Tho Da Sapa " in Vietnamese

Itinerary

Sapa – Y Linh Ho – Lao Chai – Ta Van (15 km or 6.5 hours)

Pick up from your hotel/bus station/chucrch in SAPA TOWN

The tour starts at 9 am. Our local guide will meet you at your hotel in Sapa Town or in front of the local main church. After a brief introduction, you will be taken 2km down to Cat Cat’s road, a well-known village of the Hmong minority. From there, you will be reaching the hanging bridge of the Muong Hoa river and then continue uphill into the mountains and through a bamboo forest. You will then head down to Y Linh Ho village and have lunch at a small, traditional restaurant ran by a local Hmong family.

From there, you will get the chance to admire some of the biggest and most beautiful rice terraces in Vietnam as well as enjoy the majestic mountain view on top of the Hoang Lien mountain.

Ta Van – Giang Ta Chai – Sapa (12km around 5 hours)

Enjoy a cup of hot coffee or tea and discover your homestay’s surrounding area and the nearby rice fields. After breakfast, you will be retaken uphill into the mountain till the waterfalls of Giang Ta Chai. You will then enter the Red Dao area where, together with your local guide, you will learn more in detail about their culture and daily life. After a short visit at a Red Dao family, you will then head back to the waterfalls by taking an alternative trail and across a second hanging bridge. You will then have your lunch in Giang Ta Chai village at a small, local restaurant run by a Hmong family. After the break, our bus will be waiting for you, and you will then head back to Sapa Town.