Note:
For
this beautiful market trip you have
to start from
Hanoi
on Friday night.
Day1:
Hanoi - Can Cau, on Saturday
(B, L, D)
The first night,
guide and car pick you up from your
hotel in
Hanoi
, transfer to Hanoi Station for LC5
Train, soft sleeper, AC. Overnight
on train.
Picked up from
Laocai Train Station, after 2 hour
drive long the border with China,
passing wonderful andscape, and
going up and down via Bacha Town and
you are in Can Cau Market (20 km
from Bac Ha) Can Cau is a special
market, smaller and is not as busy
as Bacha Market but it is not
touristy, - You are back to Bacha at
noon to have lunch and check in
hotel, in the afternoon you walk one
round in Thai Giang Pho Village (4
km)to learn about the life of the
Flower H'mong and the Nung. You can
drop in any family and invited to
drink tea or corn wine (corn wine is
considered to be the best here) or
take pictures of beautiful landscape
and friendly people.
The rest of the
day at leisure, you can walk to the
palace of the H'mong King, not far
from your hotel. Overnight in Bac Ha
Day 2: Bac Ha
Market (on Sunday) - Boat Trip on
Chay River - (B, L, D)
Waken up by the
footsteps of people walking to the
market, and you will be more
surprised to enter the market. The
whole market looks colorful like
flowers. It is getting bigger and
bigger, more and more colorful and
special when seeing people taking
along pigs, cats, buffaloes, horses
for sales. After lunch we drive you
to Chay River to do the boat trip
for 2 hours up stream to see
wonderful landscape by riversides
and explore ethnic villages. Car to
Sapa, short break in Lao cai by the
border gate with China (where the
Red River runs to Vietnamm and a
nice temple )
Overnight in Sapa
Day 3: Hamrong -
Thacbac - Hanoi (B, L, D)
In the morning,
you visit Hamrong (dragon raw) to
see the whole fantastic view of the
town, the paddy rice fields... on
top of this mountain, you also see
beautiful orchard gardens, Cultural
Village with the traditional stilt
house of the Tay people, collection
of Sapa pictures (past and present),
music and dance performances of the
ethnic minorities in Sapa, it is
special when walking a little up to
touch the cloud and see nice rocks
with strange shapes like Dragon raw.
In the afternoon, your guide takes
you to one of the most beautiful
waterfalls in Sapa (Silver
Waterfall), and a little further up
you will be on top of Tramm TT on
Pass where we call "Heaven Gate".
You will see long and large valley
on one side and high mountains on
the other side of which the Fanxifan
is the highest mountain in
Indochinaa , amazing and breathtaking
view.
you are back to
sapa at about 4, ready to be
transferred to lao cai, and waiting
for your train back to hanoi. tour
finished.
Type of tourr:
Private tour, Easy stylee
Departure: Any Friday night.
Inclusion: Private car,
Entrance fees, train tickets,
English/French speaking guide, Meals
as indicated, Accommodation.
Exclusion:
Drinks, Insurance, Personal
expenses, Tip
note: only 2 star hotel in Bacha.
