Sapa - Catcat - Laochai - Tavan -Giang Tachai Village

                                                 3 days - 4 nights.
                                                     Private tour

* Visit 5 villages of 3 different minorities.
(go and come back by jeep)


Day 1 :  Hanoi -Laocai ( Overnight on the train )
Pick up at your hotel and take you to Hanoi Railway Station for the night train at at 9:30 PM
to get to Laocai Station. Sleep on the train.

Day 2 : Laocai -Sapa  - Laochai - Tavan Village
5 hours trekking 14 km, 2 villages. ( Overnight at  Tavan village )
Picked up at Laocai Station early in the morning by our bus. Arrive at Sapa round 8:00 AM;
Breakfast start at 10h30am  to get to Laochai village. Enjoy the overall pictures of the
villages among terraces. Visit the H'mong living in wooden and bamboo houses. Continue
going to Tavan village to visit the Dzay minority. Stay the night in Tavan village at a Dzay
family. Picnic lunch on the way and dinner at the home-stay.

Day 3 : TaVan -GiangTaChai (  5 hours trekking, 14 km, 2 villages.)
Get up early in the morning to enjoy the daily life of the ethnic minorities in the village.
Breakfast; take the road to GiangTaChai village of the Red Dzao minority via the paths
between terraces and through bamboo forests. Visit silver waterfall and suspension Rattan
Bridge, visit the people in the village and then cross MuongHoa River up to the mountain to
visit the last village of the trek - Supan village of the H'mong. Get back to Sapa by jeep. On
the way back, enjoy visiting the ancient stone circle where stones are decorated with
ancient carvings. Check in hotel.

Day 4 : Catcat - Laocai - Hanoi. ( Overnight on the train )
Breakfast,  visit  village of the black H'mong (Catcat), walk around visiting people in the
village and the hydroelectric power station built by the French in the old days.  Back town
have lunch and check out hotel, free to explore the town until take bus to get to Laocai
Station for the night train back to Hanoi. Arrive in Hanoi around 5.00 AM. The end of the
tour.

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         Sapa - Laochai -TaVan - GiangTaChai -Cocly Market

                                  3 days / 4 nights

* CocLy Market -6 villages, a market and 7 different minority peoples

Day 1 ( Saturday ) :  8h30PM Pick up at your hotel in Hanoi and transfer  to Hanoi Railway
Station for thenight train at at 9:30 PM to get to Laocai Station. Sleep on the train.

Day 2 (Sunday) : Sapa - Laochai Village - TaVan Village ( B, L , D ) 6 hours trekking, 16 km,
3 villages
Picked up at Laocai Railway station early in the morning by bus. Arrive at Sapa round 8:00
AM. Breakfast and shower. Start from Sapa at 10:00 AM 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 other 2 villages of the H'mong and the Dzay people (LaoChai
and TaVan village). Stay in TaVan at a Dzay family. Picnic lunch on the way and dinner at
the family. Overnight at TaVan village.

Day 3 (Monday): TaVan Village - Giang Ta Chai Village -Sapa ( B, L , D ) 5 hours trekking,
14 km, 2 villages.
Breakfast at the home-stay, take the road to GiangTaChai 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 in
Sapa. Overnight at hotel.

Day 4 (Tuesday): Sapa - CocLy Market - Boat Trip on Chay River ( B, L , D )
Breakfast at the hotel. Leave from Sapa early at 7:00 AM for CocLy market by jeep or bus,
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 Chay river. You are bound to feel great and
find yourselves smaller among high Rock Mountains and to be surprised at white and
breathtakingly waterfalls. Get off the boat to visit a village of the Tay Minority ( TrungDo
village) by the river. After the boat trip, visit a small town - BaoNhai and then take jeep back
to Laocai Station for the night train to Hanoi. Have dinner before getting on the night train.
Arrive in Hanoi roughly 5:30 AM. The end of tour.




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