Sapa trekking Lao Chai - Ta Van - Ban Ho - Thanh Phu

7h30pm Sapatours 'a taxi takes you from your hotel in Hanoi to Hanoi Railway Station for the night train at 8h35 PM to get to Lao Cai Station. Sleep on the train.(4 people/cabin or 2 people/cabin on request).

Picked up at Lao Cai Station early in the morning by our bus. Arrive at Sapa around 8:00 AM; Breakfast starts at 10h30am to get to Lao Chai 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 with a Dzay family. Picnic lunch on the way and dinner at the home-stay.

Breakfast with the local family and then get to a village located at the foot of HoangLienSon range via bamboo forests. Visit a waterfall and a rattan bridge. After visiting Giang ta chai village, get down to the river, cross it and keep going to SuPan village for 2 minorities - The H'mong and the Red Dzao. . Get off the road to go down hill to BanHo village. Overnight at Ban Ho with a Tay family who have houses on stilts. Picnic lunch on the way and dinner at the family.

Get up early in the morning for fresh air and peaceful daily life of the people. Breakfast and leave the village for a hard day. Walk uphill to a smallest and almost untouched village of the Red Dzao (Namtoong). Go further to another village on the same side of the mountain range to see the XaPhoon ethnic group in NamKen. Get down to the river and go up to MiSon to visit the XaPhoon again. Spent the night in ThanhPhu village with a Tay family. Picnic lunch on the way and dinner with the local family.

Breakfast at ThanhPhu village. Walk back to SuPan village where to take a jeep back to Sapa. On the way back, visit the ancient stone circle (stones decorated with ancient carvings which are said to have described the life of the people lost in the mists of prehistory) Check in at the hotel. Lunch at SuPan and dinner in Sapa.

Breakfast, visit the 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 a hotel, free to explore the town until you take the bus to get to Lao Cai Station for the night train back to Hanoi.

I Arrived in Hanoi around 5.00 AM. The end of the tour.