Sapa special tour on every Saturday Code: SP13

Can Cau market and Bac Ha market 4 nights 3 days (Private tour minimum of 02 persons)

Night 1 (Friday) : Hanoi -Laocai ( Overnight on the train )

8h30pm Our guide pick you up at your hotel in Hanoi to Hanoi Railway Station for the night train at at 9:30 PM to get to Laocai Station. Sleep on the train.(4 people/cabin or 2 people/cabin on request).

Day 1: Arrival Laocai - Ba cha - Can cau market (Saturday) ( B, L, D )

CanCau - BacHa: Picked up at Laocai Train Station to transfer to CanCau 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 colourful costumes - different colours of the mountains. They attend the market in the hope of finding "the other halves of their lifves" 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. Lunch in CanCau or in BacHa and dinner in BacHa.

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 colourful 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. Check in hotel in Sapa.

Day 3: Visit Sapa ( B, L, D ) Night train to Hanoi

(4 hours trekking, 12 km, 2 villages) Breakfast, check out hotel at 10:00 AM. 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 bus to LaoCai Station for the night train to Hanoi. Dinner on the train. Arrive in Hanoi round 5:30 AM. The end of tour.

Tour Cost

• Surcharge: 25% on Christmas 24/12, New Year 31/12, Lunar New Year's Eve

Tour cost includes:

• All meals on the tour.
• English-speaking guide.
• Entrance fees.
• Accommodation (Hotel and home-stay),
• Night Train tickets 2 ways Hanoi-Laocai -Hanoi (soft sleeper with air-conditioning, cabin of 04 berth)
• Transport by private jeep or minibus as tour program.

Tour cost excludes:

• Drinks, except otherwise mentioned
• Insurance
• Personal expenses & Tips