Enjoy an early breakfast at the hotel or we can request the hotel’s take-away breakfast for the bus ride if the hotel’s breakfast counter is still not open at that time. Check out of the hotel room and get ready in the lobby.
06.00 – 06.30 AM You are picked up by a join bus from your Hanoi hotel and transferred to Sapa. The drive is around 5,5 hours including one stop for restroom.
Established as a hill station by the French in 1922, Sapa today is a must-visit destination in the Northwest. This is northern Vietnam’s premier trekking base, from where hikers launch themselves into a surrounding countryside of cascading rice terraces and tiny hill-tribe villages that seem a world apart.
After arriving at Sapa and checking into your hotel, take the rest for a while and then, your private guide and driver will meet you at hotel’s lobby to take you walking on a small path down the valley to Y Linh Ho village settled down by the Muong Hoa River and from here to the Black H’mong village of Lao Chai. Black H’mong is one of the biggest minority groups in the Sapa area. They are proud of their culture and keep their traditions and way of living. They have their own language and wear traditional indigo blue clothing. The H’mong people have just recently changed their living way from a sifting style into a sedentary one. So, there are still a lot of traces of the past time can be seen: rudimentary houses, stone wall around homes…
After this, you continue to Ta Van village (1.200 m) to visit Zay people. Zay is a fairly small minority group of about 38.000 people who live mainly in the mountains in Northwest Vietnam. The development has meant that some of their old customs have been lost but many women still wear traditional shirts with a purple, blue or green colour. The Zay houses are built of wood and bamboo with a clay floor.
If you visit the valley sometime between May and October, you will be able to observe and experience how the locals do plant and harvest, one of the most important activities in daily life.
Then, back to your hotel and the rest of the day is leisurely.
- Overnight: in Sapa.
- Meal Included: Breakfast at hotel.
- Accommodation: 4 stars hotels as mentioned or similar.
- Transfer: Shared vehicle & driver from Hanoi to Sapa, Private vehicle & driver in Sapa.
- Tour Guide: Shared English-Speaking tour guide in Sapa.
- Entrance Fees: To all sites stated in the itinerary.
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