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Night 1 Friday: Hanoi - Lao Cai

Vietnam TripAdvisor’s car pick you up at your hotel and transfer to Hanoi train station for the night train to Lao Cai station. Overnight on AC Soft Sleeper Hanoi - Lao Cai train

Meals: Breakfast, Luch, Dinner

Day 1 (Saturday): CanCau – Bac Ha

Picked up at Laocai Train Station to transfer to CanCau market. It takes more than 2 hours to get to CanCau – a small market situated in a valley surrounded by mountains and only 7 km from China. The market deeply shows the typical cultural features of the minorities in remote mountainous areas in Vietnam. Further more, you can enjoy seeing boys and girls in colourful costumes – different colours of the mountains. They attend the market in the hope of finding “the other halves of their lifves” and this is also the time for them to chat, to exchange everything among different ethnic peoples through cups of wine sold in the market. Say goodbye to the market and transfer to BacHa. On the way, spend time visiting a village of the Flower H’mong and then check in hotel in BacHa. Free to explore the town. Lunch in CanCau or in BacHa and dinner in BacHa.

Meals : Breakfast, Luch, Dinner

Day 2: (Sunday): Bac Ha - Trung Do - Chay River –Sapa

A walk to BacHa market. Visit one village and an old building called The H’mong king’s house. Breakfast and the beginning of the day on which you visit a big market filled with many different hill-tribe peoples. This is the most colourful market in North Vietnam. At the market, you have chance to enjoy BacHa people’s simple but unique kinds of food with special wines made from rice, cassavas, corn and different sorts of fruits such as plumps, apples, peaches... talking to the minorities through the guide’s interpretation. Leave the market for the H’mong King’s house (King Hoang A Tuong) built by the French colonists and the Chinese in 1920. Return the town for lunch. In the afternoon, spend time visiting another village (BanPho village) Say good bye to BacHa and get back to Trung Do village, visit the Tay then get on boat along Chay river. Get off boat for jeep at Bao Nhai then continue to Sapa. On the way back, drop in to see the Vietnamese and Chinese Harbour Mouth in LaoCai. Reach Sapa late in the afternoon. Check in hotel in Sapa.

Meals : Breakfast, Luch, Dinner

Day 3 : (Monday): Sapa - Lao Chai - Ta Van - Giang Ta Chai - Lao Cai

Breakfast, check out hotel at 10:00 AM. Get downhill to the valley for 3 villages of the Black H’mong, the Dzay & Red Dzao people. Lunch at a Dzay family. Get up to the road for a car back to Sapa. Then take shuttle bus to LaoCai Station for the night train to Hanoi. Dinner at Lao Cai Station.Overnight on the train

Meals : Breakfast, Luch, Dinner

Day 4 : Hanoi

Getting back to Hanoi from Sapa trip so early at around 5am. Private car pick up then transfer to your hotel. Tour ends.