Day 01: Ha Noi - Lao Cai
21: 00 pm - Pick up at your hotel in Hanoi and transfer to Hanoi Railway Station for boarding the night train to Laocai. Overnight on the A/c soft sleeper cabin.
Day 02: (Saturday) Arrival in Laocai - Cancau Market - Bacha
Welcome by Lotussia local guide and driver upon your arrival at Lao Cai station and transfer to Can Cau market. It takes more than 2 hours to get to Can Cau - a small market situated in a valley surrounded by mountains and only 7 km from China. The market deeply shows the typical cultural features of the minorities in remote mountainous areas in Vietnam. Transfer to BacHa. on the way, spend time visiting a village of the Flower H'mong and then check in hotel in BacHa. Free time to explore the town. Dinner at the local restaurant. Overnight at your proposed hotel in Bacha.
Day 03: (Sunday) Visit Bacha Market - Sapa
Take a walk to Bac Ha market. This is the most colorful market in North Vietnam. At the market, you have chance to enjoy Bac Ha 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 (Ban Pho village) Say good bye to Bac Ha and get back to Sapa. on the way back, drop in to see the Vietnamese and Chinese Harbour Mouth in LaoCai. Overnight at your proposed hotel in Sapa.
Day 04: Sapa - Laocai - Hanoi
Get downhill by jeep to the valley then walk for 3 villages of the Black H'mong and the Dzay people. Lunch at a Dzay family. Get up to the road for a jeep back to Sapa. then take jeep back to Laocai Station for the night train to Hanoi. Dinner at local restaurant. Overnight on the A/c soft sleeper Cabin.
Day 05: Arrival in Hanoi
Arrive in Hanoi early morning. Early check-in for breakfast and bathing (optional). End tour.
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