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Sapa - Weekend Markets 3 Days - 4 Nights from Hanoi

The valleys surrounding Sapa are home to several of Vietnam’s 54 ethnic minority groups, each with their own distinctive dress, customs and dialects which can all be seen at the weekend markets in Sapa area. Can Cau Market is a small, but very colourful market, set in the mountains near the Chinese border. Almost every Saturday around 8 different minorities are represented at the market. Bac Ha market with all it's colourful ethnic people as Flower Hmong, Phu La and Dao Tuyen who gathers to buy, to sell or just to exchange culture and meet each other will be the next destination.

 

Tour Itinerary:
 

Day 01: ( Friday ) Hanoi - Night train to Laocai
21: 00 pm - Pick up at your hotel in Hanoi and transfer to Hanoi Railway Station for boarding to Laocai by Tulico Express Train. Overnight on the A/c soft sleeper cabin. ( 4pax/cabin or 2pax/cabin on request ).

Day 02: (Saturday) Laocai - Can Cau market - Bac Ha ( B/L/D )
6 : 00 am - Arrive to Laocai train station. Welcome by your local guide and driver. Picked up at Laocai Train Station to transfer to Can Cau 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 colorful costumes - different colors of the mountains. They attend the market in the hope of finding "the other halves of their lifestyle" 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. Dinner at the local restaurant. Overnight at your proposed hotel in Bacha.

Day 03: (Sunday) Visit Bac Sunday market - Sapa ( B/L/D )
Breakfast at the hotel. Take 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 colorful 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 Sapa. On the way back, drop in to see the Vietnamese and Chinese Harbour Mouth in LaoCai. Reach Sapa late in the afternoon. Dinner at local restaurant. Overnight at your proposed hotel in Sapa.        

Day 04: ( Monday ) Sapa - Lao Cai - Hanoi ( B/L/D ) ( 4 hours trekking, 12 km, 2 villages)
Breakfast at the hotel. Get downhill by jeep to the valley then walk for 3 villages of the Black H'mong and the Dzay people. Lunch at a Dzay family. Get up to the road for a jeep back to Sapa. then take jeep back to Laocai Station for the night train to Hanoi. Dinner at local restaurant. Overnight on the A/c soft sleeper Cabin. End of services

Tour Includes:
- English or French speaking tour guide, other language speaking tour guides are available on request
- Pick ups, transfer & sightseeing as per program by A/c private Russian Jeep or Minibus.
- Full meals as mentioned on the tour program as B = Breakfast, L = Lunch, D = Dinner.
- Entrance fees and permits
- 2 night hotel accommodation in Twin Share basis.
- 1 night home stay arrangements.
- Lusury train return tickets Hanoi - Laocai - Hanoi ( soft sleeper with air-conditioning - wooden cabin)
- Transport by private car or minibus as the tour program

Tour Excludes:
- Travel Insurance
- Drinks at hotel and restaurants
- Personal expenses such as telephone, laundry, tips,...