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FANSIPAN TREKKING (11 days)
Day 1. Hanoi arrival – Lao Cai
Pick up from the airport, transfer to the hotel.
Spend the afternoon by cyclo stroll around the Old Quarter. 21.00
transfer to the railway station for night train to Lao Cai. Overnight
on the train.
Day 2. Lao Cai – Sin Chai (2 hours)
Arrive Lao Cai early morning. Transfer uphill to
Sapa. The road winds up the terraced mountainsides to Sapa, a former
French hill resort and home to some of Vietnams most colourful ethnic
groups. Start out with a team of Black Hmong porters from Sapa and head
for the Black Hmong village of Sin Chai at the bottom of the beautiful
Sapa valley. The trek is short today but the stay in Sin Chai allows
for cultural acclimatization. Sin Chai is a community village. Here the
locals will take the time to teach textile weaving and dying, will take
the group on a locally built trail to explain the names and function of
the local flora. There will be the opportunity to participate in the
village community, there will be a traditional sporting activity and
tree planting. This is a sustainable tourism project. Overnight in Sin
Chai village homestay.
Day 3. Sin Chai – Base camp (6 hours)
An exciting morning heading to Base camp. Soon
after leaving the outskirts of Sin Chai, start hiking uphill. Trek
steeply uphill for about three hours then enjoy a bountiful lunch in
the forest. Continue climbing and around 4.30 pm arrive at basecamp.
(2500 m). Camp will be prepared in time for the arrival of the group.
Enjoy home cooked dinner in the great outdoors. Overnight in tented
camp.
Day 4. Base camp – Summit – Base camp (7 hours)
After an early breakfast trek up to the 3143m
summit. This highest point in Vietnam offers incredible views over Laos
to the North, China to the South and the imposing mountains of Dien
Bien Phu. The duration of our stay at the summit depends on the weather
conditions, but there will be time for a good long break, before
trekking downhill to 2700 m and Basecamp 2 – a different location to
the first basecamp. Overnight in tented camp.
Day 5. Base camp 2 – Bamboo camp (5 hours)
Rise to the aroma of early morning coffee and
smells of cooked breakfast. After breakfast dismantle camp and trek
down the remoter ‘other side’ of Fansipan. At around 2400m the
rainforest will gradually give way to groves of huge, succulent bamboo.
There are now magnificent views over the Muong Hoa Valley. At an
altitude of 2400 m, the porters pitch camp for the night. Overnight in
tented camp.
Day 6. Bamboo camp – Seomity village (4 hours)
A great days trek, undulating sometimes steeply up
and down and through natural landscapes to arrive finally at the
isolated Black Hmong village of Seo Mi Ty. The villagers are friendly
and curious and the countryside and village very impressionable. Spend
a final night in tents alongside the banks of a clear mountain stream.
Overnight in tented camp.
Day 7. Seomity village – Ta Trung Ho village (6 hours)
The trekking is easier today and is punctuated by
the exciting crossing of two rivers – one via a primitive aerial
ropeway and the other a rickety old suspension bridge. Reaching
relative civilization of terraces of paddy fields and passing through
villages. Overnight in a stilt house in Ta Trung Ho, a village
inhabited by the Red Dao minority.
Day 8. Ta Trung Ho village – Nam Than – Sin Chai 2 village (6 hours)
Trek along the fringes of the rainforest skirting
the Hoang Lien Son Mountain Range. Ascend to the Red Dao Village of Nam
Toong, then descend to Nam Sai and My Son villages – these villages
belong to the ethnic minorities Xafo, one of the smallest and rarest
groups in Vietnam. We overnight in the valley bottom at the friendly
village of Thanh Phu. Overnight in homestay.
Day 9. Thanh Phu – Nam Nhiu – Nam Than – Sin Chai village (7 hours)
Trek through the beautiful Muong Hoa Vallley. Have
lunch at Nam Than village, belonging to the Blue Hmong minority people.
Our guide will spend time over lunch discussing the way of life of the
Blue Hmong. After lunch ascend to the Red Dao village of Sin Chai, and
overnight in bamboo huts, perched high with great views across the Sapa
valley.
Day 10. Sin Chai – Sapa – Lao Cai – Hanoi (5 hours)
Leave early and trek downhill to Ban Ho. Ban Ho is
located on the banks of the mighty Ta Van River. Spend time swimming
and relaxing while lunch is cooked.Trek a final 5km up a steep
valleyside to the gravel road that will mark the end of our trek. Load
up and transfer 20km to Sapa. Reach SaPa in the afternoon for a well
deserved hot shower and beverage or two! Transfer to Lao Cai and the
overnight train to Hanoi.
Day 11. Hanoi departure
At leisure until transfer to Hanoi International Airport for departure flight.
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| Days: | >= 5 days |
| Price: | N/A |
| Start from: | Hanoi |
Sender
| Name: HALONG TOURS - ASIA PACIFIC TRAVEL |
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Related Places
 Hanoi |  Lao Cai |  Sapa |
