At 20h30 pickup from your hotel in Hanoi and transfer to Hanoi railway station for a night train at 21h15 to Sapa (Soft sleeper with Air conditioning cabin, First class, 4 berths in a cabin).

Day1: Lao Cai - Sapa - Cat Cat - Lao Chai - Ta Van (B/L/D)
Pick up at Lao Cai station by Mini bus to Sapa. Arrive in Sa Pa at 9.00AM. Breakfast and relax. Start trekking to Cat Cat village for visiting the H’Mong minority, hydroelectric power station and the waterfall. Have a picnic lunch on the way. After that we'll go along a beautiful valley between mountains for the next village called Y Linh Ho. Get down to Lao Chai village and then stop at Ta Van village. Have dinner and spend the night in a Dzay family.

Day 2: Ta Van - Giang Ta Chai - Su Pan - Sapa (B/L/D)
Get up early in the morning for fresh atmosphere in the countryside. Breakfast and continue walking to the next village of the Red Dzao minority (Giang Ta Chai village). Visit Silver waterfall and a nice Rattan Bridge. Have lunch en-route. Cross the river and go up to the mountain to visit Su Pan village and then back to Sapa by jeep. Have dinner at hotel. Free time and O/N in Sa Pa.

Day 3: Sapa - Can Cau market - Lao Cai - Hanoi (Tue; B/L/D)
Have breakfast at hotel, then leave Sapa early at 7:00 AM for Can Cau market. It takes more than 2 hours to get to Can Cau - 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 "lovers" and this is also the time for them to talk to each other, make friends, and to exchange everything among different ethnic peoples through cups of wine sold in the market. Say goodbye to the lovely local people, and then take a car/van back to Lao Cai Station for the night train to Hanoi. Have dinner before getting on the train. Arrive in Hanoi roughly 4:30 AM. End of the trip.