Depart: Every Saturday evening
At 20:00 pickup from your hotel in Hanoi or from Vietnamtravelrates office. Transfer to railway station for a night train at 21:15 to Sapa (Soft sleeper with A/C).

Day 2 (Sunday) : Sapa, Lao Chai Village, Ta Van Village ( B, L , D ) 6 hours trekking, 16 km, 3 villages
On your arrival at Lao Cai Railway station in the early morning, our gudie and driver will take you to Sapa town by bus. Arrive at Sapa round 7.15am. Breakfast and shower. Start from Sapa at 10.00am by jeep and then go down the valley, visit an H'mong village and the hydroelectric power station built by the French. Take a small path to go and visit another 2 villages of the H'mong and the Dzay people (Lao Chai and Ta Van village). Stay in Ta Van at a Dzay family. Picnic lunch on the way and dinner at the family. Overnight at Ta Van village.

Day 3 (Monday): TaVan Village, Giang Ta Chai Village, Sapa ( B, L , D ) 5 hours trekking, 14 km, 2 villages.
Breakfast at the home-stay, take the road to Giang Ta Chai village to see the Red Dzao people via paths through terraces and bamboo forests. Visit a waterfall, a suspension bridge. Picnic lunch and cross the river. Visit an H'mong village on the mountain. Take a jeep back to Sapa. Visit the ancient stone circle on the way back. Check in hotel, dinner in Sapa. Overnight at hotel in Sapa.

Day 4 (Tuesday): Sapa, CocLy Market, Boat Trip on Chay River ( B, L , D )
Breakfast at the hotel. Leave Sapa early at 7:00am for Coc Ly market by jeep or bus because it is far from Sapa. Enjoy the peaceful life of different minority peoples ( Flower H'mong, Black Dzao, Tay, Dzay). The market is the chance for the minority people to meet and share joy and sorrows after the crops and to share their experiences. Say goodbye to the market and go down onto a boat on the Chay river. You will get a great feeling but find yourself very small among high Rock Mountains and be amazed by the white waterfalls which are breathtaking. Get off the boat to visit a village of the Tay Minority ( TrungDo village) by the river. After the boat trip, visit a small town - Bao Nhai and then take the jeep back to Laocai Station for the night train to Hanoi. Have dinner before getting on the night train. Arrive in Hanoi roughly 5:30 AM. Tour ends.

Coc Ly Market Sapa	Hug Me!