Sapa and Remote Villages Experience

Please, be ready at your hotel lobby at 20:00 for a short transfer to Hanoi railways station. Tonight you will travel to Lao Cai on sleeping train in the most comfortable 4 berth cabin of Victoria compartment or in 2 berth deluxe cabin of other train carriage.      
             
Day 1: Lao Cai - Ta Phin - Sapa      

Meet your guide and driver at Lao Cai station upon your arrival, take a quick shower and enjoy breakfast in a local restaurant before transfer uphill the Hoang Lien Son mountain range. The smooth road winds its way higher and higher on the mountain slopes. After an hour drive with several stops for marvelous scenery you will arrive in the center of Ta Phin, a beautiful valley surrounded by pine tree plantations and terraced rice paddies which is home to the Black H’mong and Red Dao people. Leaving the car for about an hour walk around the valley and paying visit to local homes you will be welcomed by friendly people and witnessing their unique way of life. Continue driving to Sapa, check in your hotel and enjoy along break before Lunch.

Your guide will meet you again for the afternoon walk to visit Sapa’s market and church before ascending uphill the Ham Rong mountain for visiting a charming orchid garden and great view of Sapa town as well as Fansipan mountain and surrounding valleys. The rest of the afternoon is for your own, wandering the charming town.      

• Breakfast included, Lunch & Dinner on your own

• Accommodation: Victoria Hotel in Sapa 

After Breakfast, Local guide and driver will pick you up at your hotel and then drive up hill to see the famous Silver Waterfall and then onto Tram Ton, the highest mountain pass in Vietnam at 1,940m above sea level for enjoying the magnificence of Hoang Lien Son Mountain Range as well as over viewing spectacular landscapes of the whole area, stretching endlessly. Drive back to Sapa and check out your hotel after Lunch. You will take a drive along the only road through the beautiful Muong Hoa Valley and enjoy several stops for enjoying breathtaking landscapes and paying visit to some small hamlets of the Black H’mong, Red Dao and Giay along the way.
In mid afternoon, you will arrive at the Ecolodge which is built in a perfect location on the two corn-shaped hills, deep in the pure nature of Sapa. Check in the Lodge and free time to relax.      

• Breakfast included. Lunch and Dinner on your own

• Accommodation: In Ecolodge    

Today is set for your own activities at the Lodge. You may choose to just stay around the Lodge to enjoy pure environment, breathtaking scenery and quietness or taking some short cycle or walk to the villages nearby.
At about 16:00, your driver will come and pick you up for a transfer to Sapa and onto Lao Cai for taking the night train to Hanoi, which arrives early next morning and the trip ends.      

• Breakfast included, Lunch and Dinner on your own
• Overnight train in Victoria carriage or in 2 berth deluxe cabin of other train carriage

The appeal of street food Sapa