SAPA – LAO CHAI – TA VAN – CAT CAT – BAC HA 4D3N

9:00: We will pick you up at hotel aand then start for trekking.
9:15: We start trekking on small trails down the Muong Hoa Valley toward Lao Chai village of Black H’mong ethnic people. Here we will discover their daily life and how they make traditional clothes, handicraft, indigo...We will visit the biggest valley which provides the best view for golden rice terraced fields in Vietnam. After Lao Chai we walk to Ta Van village of Giay people. It is a small group of ethnic people in Vietnam with a rich culture and beautiful houses located on rice paddy fields.

Lao Chai & Ta Van Villages, about 8 km from Sapa town, where black H’mong and Dzay people are living, it is also the beginning of the valley which is called Muong Hoa. From a high point of the main road, great view of the whole villages open wide to offer the marvelous panorama views, backed by high mountains and facing the river. Here you will enjoy the fresh air, see terraced fields and stream, discover and visit some of Black H’mong families. You will have a welcome feeling at any house of the hospitable people there. You can interact them, learn about their culture and customs. Then we take you back to sapa town and drop you at the hotel

After breakfast, your guide and driver will come to pick you up at your hotel and then drive about 2.5 hours to Bac Ha Market which opens only on Sunday. Along the way, take your opportunity to enjoy beautiful mountainous scenes and rice paddy fields. After having breakfast in a local restaurant, we will head to Bac Ha Market. In the Market, we will see the locals selling and exchanging their goods and products, witness the traditional clothes and daily custom of them. Get on the car and drive to visit H’mong King’s palace, an old building built by the French. The afternoon is dedicated to a light trekking to a village of Flower H’mong minority, Ban Pho. Local families will welcome and offer you some green tea, corn wine and short brief of their custom, you will enjoy dramatic landscapes of the surroundings.
16.00: Transfer to your hotel in Sapa
If your travel date is not in Sunday, you can choose another ethnic markets available in the week:
⦁ Coc ly market: on Tuesday
⦁ Can cau market: on Saturday
⦁ Muong Hum market: on Sunday
⦁ Cao Son market: on Wednesday
⦁ Lung Khau Nhin Market: Thursday

6:45 - 7:45 Enjoy the beautiful sunrise in Sapa and have breakfast at your hotel.
8:00 Visit Fansipan Cable Car Station (included 2 ways Cable Cab, 1 way Tram to the top) and spend 20 minutes with cable car to enjoy the spectacular scenery.
12:00 Have lunch at local restaurant.
14:00 Free at own leisure or continue to explore this beautiful small town, shopping activities at local shops who promotes products from boarder.
16:00 Return to Hanoi
Overnight in Hanoi.