Day 1 : Hanoi - 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 2 : Laocai -Sapa - TaVan: 5 hours trekking, 14 km, 3 villages. ( B/L/D )
6
: 00 am - Arrive to Laocai train station. Welcome by your local guide
and driver. Transfer to your Sapa for breakfast & relax. Take a
jeep ride for the first part and go down hill to the valley. Cross
MuongHoa River to get to the other mountainside for 3 villages of the
H'mong and the Dzay. Stay the night at a local family in Tavan village.
Picnic lunch on the way. Dinner and home stay in the village.
Day 3 : TaVan -BanHo 7 hours trekking, 18 km, 3 villages. ( B/L/D )
Breakfast
and leave the family for the next village. Visit the Red Dzao in
GiangTaChai village by way of terraced paddy fields and bamboo forests.
Enjoy the natural beauty of Silver Waterfall and Rattan Bridge. Cross
the river and continue going to BanHo village where the Tay people
settle down. On the way to BanHo, there is more chance to see the Red
Dzao and the Black H'mong in Supan village. Spend the night in BanHo
village at a Tay Family. Picnic lunch on the way. Dinner and home stay
in the village.
Day 4 : BanHo -Sapa 3 hours trekking of 7 km and 23 km by jeep. ( B/L/D )
Breakfast
with the family and leave the village for a waterfall discovered by
French people. Enjoy the view, swimming and return to BanHo to visit
the people in the village. Say goodbye to the family and get up to the
main road where to take a jeep back to Sapa. Lunch on the way. Dinner
at the local restaurant. Overnight at your proposed hotel in Sapa.
Day 5 : Sapa - Laocai - Hanoi ( B/_/_ )
Breakfast
at the hotel. Free at leisure. Check out hotel at noon. Lunch on guest
account. Free until Transfer to Laocai train station for boarding to
Hanoi by Tulico Express Train ( 20 : 45- 5 : 00 ). End of services.