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BacHa & Cocly - special
markets & boat trip
( Tour Code: GTSP07 )
DETAILED ITINERARY
 Get
started:
Sapa trekking tour's taxi take you to Hanoi
Railway Station for the night train at at 9:30 PM to get to Laocai
Station. Sleep on the train.
1st day
(Sunday):
Picked up at Laocai Railway Station by jeep for BacHa market. 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
2nd day (Monday)
Jeep to Supan village and a short walk to BanHo village to visit the Tay
ethnic people who have houses on stilts. Lunch at a local family. Back
to Sapa
3rd day
(Tuesday):
Leave from Sapa early at 7:00 AM for CocLy market, which is situated far
from Sapa. Enjoy the peaceful life of 6 different minority peoples
(Flower H'mong, Black Dzao, Tay, Dzay, HaNhi and Nung). The market is
the chance for the minorities to meet and share joy and sorrows after
the crops, to exchange one another's experience. Say goodbye to the
market and get down onto a boat along Chay river. You are bound to feel
great and find yourselves smaller among high rock mountains and to be
surprised at white and breathtakingly waterfalls. The Fairy Cave is
located deeply in the rocks. 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 - BaoNhai and then take jeep back to Laocai Station for the
night train to Hanoi. Have dinner before getting on the train. Arrive in
Hanoi roughly 4:30 AM. The end of tour.
Tour price include: - Food
(All meals on the tour), - English-speaking guide - Entrance fees -
Accommodation (Hotel and home-stay) - Train return tickets Hanoi-Laocai
(soft sleeper with air-conditioning), - Jeep go and back as the program
Excludes: - Insurance - Drinks - Phone calls and
other private expenses
Notes: Advised to take good
walking shoes, raincoats, jackets, torch, insect repellent and
sunscreen...
Notes: Advised to take good walking shoes,
raincoats, jackets, torch, insect repellent and Sunscreen...
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