Rates are not inclusive of:

• Tips for tour guide, driver
• Travel insurance
• Expenditure of a personal nature, tips, such as drinks, souvenirs, laundry, emergency transfers & etc
• Others which are not mentioned in the inclusion

Sapa – Lao Chai - Ta Van / Cat Cat – Sin Chai

The Night Before:Transfer from your hotel to the Hanoi Train Station for boarding at 9:30 pm. You will be in shared A/C sleeper cabins of 4 (6) to travel North to Lao Cai town.

Day 1: Sapa – Y Linh Ho – Lao Chai – Ta Van - Sapa (B, L, D)

The train arrives in Lao Cai at about 6:30 am where your OPENTOUR guide will welcome you. Then take a morning drive through the clouds by car / van to Sapa (about 1.5 hours). Check-in hotel. Breakfast then start the tour with 6km walking down to the south east of Sapa along the side of Muong Hoa valley to Y Linh Ho village of the Black H’mong. A 2km-trekking down to Lao Chai village, through terraced rice fields to Ta Van village of the Dzay minority people. Lunch at a local family, it gives you a worth chance for you to learn about the local house architecture which is full of their daily life styles and exclusive custom. Enjoy the landscapes…on the way. Get back to Sapa by jeep or motorbike. O/N at the hotel in Sapa

Day 2: Cat Cat & Sin Chai (B, L)

A walk down to the South-west of Sapa (around 4 km) to visit Cat Cat village of the Black H’mong. Relax at the food of the stunning waterfall and the vestige of a hydroelectric power station that was constructed by the French during the colonial time in Vietnam. Enjoy picnic lunch by the side of the river, and then next 6 km to Sin Chai, the village located at the foot of Fansipan Mountain, “the roof of Vietnam and Indochina”. From here you can enjoy huge stunning landscapes before climbing up on the way a jeep to return to Sapa. Bus to Lao Cai Station to get night train back to Hanoi.

Day 3: Arrive Hanoi

Tour end at Hanoi train station about 5h00 am. Please find your own way to your hotel, a taxi normally costs you a set of 50,000 VND (2-3 usd)

Tour price (Group tour - joining tour - seat-in-coach tour - daily guaranteed departure)

Rates are inclusive of:

• Meals as mentioned the program.

• Land transfer by car/ bus for whole trip;

• Hanoi, Lao Cai A/C soft sleeper train ticket.

• English or French speaking guides. Other languages are available upon request.

• Admission fees for all sightseeing places

Rates are not inclusive of:

• Tips for tour guide, driver
• Travel insurance
• Expenditure of a personal nature, tips, such as drinks, souvenirs, laundry, emergency transfers & etc
• Others which are not mentioned in the inclusion

Option 3: Lao Chai - Ta Van - Giang Ta Chai / Suoi Thau – Ma Tra – Ta Phin

The Night Before:

Transfer from your hotel to the Hanoi Train Station for boarding at 9:30 pm. You will be in shared A/C sleeper cabins of 4 (6) to travel North to Lao Cai town.
Day 1: Sapa – Lao Chai – Ta Van – Giang Ta Chai - Sapa (B, L, D)

The train arrives in Lao Cai at about 6:30 am where your OPENTOUR guide will welcome you. Then take a morning drive through the clouds by car / van to Sapa (about 1.5 hours). Check-in hotel. Breakfast then start the tour with 6 km transferred by jeep then walk on 2 km down to Lao Chai village, and close Ta Van village of the Dzay minority. Lunch at a local family in Ta Van, all for you to discover their daily life, works and special custom, enjoy landscapes… Continue after through bamboo forest to Giang Ta Chai village of the red Dzao, visit a wonderful waterfall & a suspension rattan bridge on the way to the main road for a jeep to return to Sapa.

O/N at the hotel in Sapa

Day 2: Sapa - Suoi Thau - Ma Tra - Ta Phin - Sapa (B, L)

5km by jeep, visit the red Dzao in Suoi Thau, Ma Tra villages. 9km trekking through the forest. Picnic lunch en –route. Reach Ta Phin village where we have chance to learn about the life styles and the custom of the red Dzao minority, enjoy landscapes…then drive back to Sapa. Bus to Lao Cai Station to get night train back to Hanoi.

Day 3: Arrive Hanoi

Tour end at Hanoi train station about 5h00 am. Please find your own way to your hotel, a taxi normally costs you a set of 50,000 VND (2-3 usd)

Tour price

• Mid-range (3*) : 248$
• Superior (4*) : 268$
• Deluxe (5*) : 273$

  Rates are inclusive of:

  • Meals as mentioned the program.

  • Land transfer by car/ bus for whole trip;

  • Hanoi, Lao Cai A/C soft sleeper train ticket.

  • English or French speaking guides. Other languages are available upon request.

  • Admission fees for all sightseeing places

Rates are not inclusive of:

• Tips for tour guide, driver
• Travel insurance
• Expenditure of a personal nature, tips, such as drinks, souvenirs, laundry, emergency transfers & etc
• Others which are not mentioned in the inclusion

The Night Before:

Transfer from your hotel to the Hanoi Train Station for boarding at 9:30 pm. You will be in shared A/C sleeper cabins of 4 (6) to travel North to Lao Cai town.

.Day 1: Bac Ha market (on Sunday only) (B, L, D)

The train arrives in Lao Cai at about 6:30 am where your OPENTOUR guide will welcome you. Breakfast at Lao Cai station then get on bus to Bac Ha. Located at 110km from Sapa, Bac Ha mountain town is well-known by travelers with the most colorful market of the hill tribes in the North of Vietnam. This every-Sunday-market attended by at least 8 ethnic groups and last from 9:00 AM until 2:00 PM. It is also chance for tourists to discover the H’mong King’s palace (old building built by the French & Chinese).

In the afternoon, we go for a light trek to visit Ban Pho, the village is home to flower H’mong minority. We are invited to enter several local houses to have some green tea, corn wine, listen to the host talking about their family, talk to them… and then enjoy landscapes on a roundabout way to Bac Ha to get back to Sapa. Check in hotel, have dinner, O/N at the hotel in Sapa

Day 2: Y Linh Ho - Lao Chai - Ta Van (B, L, D)

6 km of walking down to the south east of Sapa along the side of Muong Hoa valley to Y Linh Ho village of the Black H’mong. A 2km-trekking down to Lao Chai village, through terraced rice fields to Ta Van village of the Dzay minority people. Lunch at a local family, it gives you a worth chance for you to learn about the local house architecture which is full of their daily life styles and exclusive custom. Enjoy the landscapes…on the way. Get back to Sapa by jeep or motorbike. Bus to Lao Cai Station to get night train back to Hanoi.

.Day 3: Arrive Hanoi

Tour end at Hanoi train station about 5h00 am. Please find your own way to your hotel, a taxi normally costs you a set of 50,000 VND (2-3 usd)

Tour price (Group tour - joining tour - seat-in-coach tour - daily guaranteed departure)

• Mid-range (3*) class: 125 US$/ pax
• Superior (4*) class: 148US$/ pax
• Deluxe (5*) class: 354US$/ pax

Rates are inclusive of:

• Meals as mentioned the program.

• Land transfer by car/ bus for whole trip;

• Hanoi, Lao Cai A/C soft sleeper train ticket.

• English or French speaking guides. Other languages are available upon request.

• Admission fees for all sightseeing places.

Description of service in details

Rates are not inclusive of:

• Optional tours
• Tips for tour guide, driver
• Travel insurance
• International airfare to/ from Vietnam & International airport tax in Vietnam
• Expenditure of a personal nature, tips, such as drinks, souvenirs, laundry, emergency transfers & etc
• Others which are not mentioned in the inclusion

Remark:

• If you don’t have enough time to complete visa before your departure to Vietnam, we will help you to obtain visa on arrival easily
• As indicated: A/C= Air-conditioning, O/N= Overnight, B=Breakfast, L=Lunch, D=Dinner
• Itinerary is subject to change depending on flights, road condition and room availability
• Rates are subjected to changed without prior notice.

  Accommodations offers in this trip (The hotel may be changed up to its availability. It will be confirmed after getting your deposit/ payment)

Group tour: To join with other people on available daily tours. These tours are fixed itinerary and departure time. It is possible to join in even your group of only 1 or 2 people. Customer do not to find other people to form the group. It is our company duty to gather the tourists for each tour. For these tours, you have to share the coach, boat and tour guide with other tourists who come from different nationalities. The number of people of this group is normally less than 20 persons.

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