OPTION 1: HANOI - NIGHT BUS
21.00 - 21.30 Our shuttle bus will pick you up at your hotels/hostels in Hanoi Old Quarter and transfer you to bus station to take about 5,5 hours by the sleeping bus to Sapa. You will arrive Sapa Bus station at 3.30 - 4.00, you can sleep on bus until 6.00 (no air-condition on bus when stopping).
OPTION 2: HANOI - NIGHT TRAIN
20.30 Our staff from Indochina Beauty Travel will pick up at your hotels/hostels in Hanoi Old Quarter, transfer to Hanoi Train station, take the night train to Lao Cai, this train departs at 10:00 Pm – arrive in the next morning at 06:00 Am - Train cabin 4 berth with A.C - sharing cabin.
DAY 1: SAPA – SUOI HOA VILLAGE – MA TRA VILLAGE - SAPA (BREAKFAST/LUNCH/ DINNER)
6.00 Our driver will pick up at the Sapa bus/train station when you arrive and transfer by shuttle bus to the hotel in Sapa.
Have breakfast at hotel.
Meet your tourguide and then, start trekking downhill and cross the stream to the other bank where Suoi Ho village beautifully sits on the top of a low hill. Spend half an hour to visit several local homes. You can take time to talk with local people to learn their cultures and lifestyles. Then walking along a large path on hillsides which is paved with rock to get through Ma Tra village. On the way, you can admire the beautiful scenery of the valley. The last stop of this day is the ruined French Catholic church, then picked up and transfer by road 12km back to Sapa.
Stay overnight at the hotel in Sapa.
DAY 2: BAN KHOANG – TA GIANG PHING – NIGHT TRAIN TO HANOI (BREAKFAST/ LUNCH/DINNER)
After breakfast at hotel, we will take a short road for heading northwards of Sapa to O Quy Ho. On the way, we will have several stops for magnificent landscapes of Fansipan, Sin Chai valley. Then we will follow a narrow road for half an hour getting through the wild region with thick rain forest covering walled-up mountains, passing several waterfalls before arriving to Ban Khoang, a village of the Red Zao ethnic peoples.
Spend over an hour walking to explore this remote village. Leaving Ban Khoang and process along the road for about 10km to Ta Giang Phin valley inhabited by the Black Hmong who live in some small villages scattering along a peaceful stream.
Enjoy an hour lunch break on the bank of a stream before walking along village path which connects village to village to witness daily activities of local life such as plough and harrow the fields, growing, harvesting. The walk ends in mid afternoon, picked up for the road ride back to Sapa.
Have dinner then we transfer you to bus/train station. Take the night bus/train back to Hanoi. Tour ends.
Notes:
- Overnight on train: soft sleeper train cabin 4 berth with A.C - sharing cabin.
- Overnight on bus: You will arrive Hanoi about 3.30-4.00am, you can not continue to sleep on bus, so please prepare the accomodation for early arriving. Or you can change to day bus starts at 3.30pm from Sapa and arrive in Hanoi at 9pm (this option excludes dinner on the last day).
