Special Markets, Boat Trip and Home Stay (Can Cau, Bac Ha, Coc Ly)

Get started: Sapa Travel’s taxi take you to Hanoi Railway Station for the night train to get to Laocai Station. Sleep on the train.

 

Special Markets, Boat Trip and Home Stay (Can Cau, Bac Ha, Coc Ly)

1st day (Saturday): Lao Cai – Can Cau – Bac Ha (B,L)

2nd day (Sunday): Bac Ha – Ban Pho – Lao Cai – Sapa (B,L)

3rd day: Sapa – Y Linh Ho – Lao Chai – Ta Van – Lao Cai (B,L,D)

4th day (Tuesday): Sapa – Coc Ly – Lao Cai (B,L).

 

Special Markets, Boat Trip and Home Stay (Can Cau, Bac Ha, Coc Ly)

 

Duration: 4 nights 5 nights                                           Code: Market 04

Visit 3 Market (Can Cau, Bac Ha, Coc Ly), 6 villages (Cat Cat, Y Linh Ho, Lao Chai, Ta Van, Ban Pho, Trung Do) and 8 different minority peoples (Dzay, Black H’Mong, Flower H’mong, Red Dao, Black Dzao, Dzay, Ha Nhi and Nung)

 

Get started: Sapa Travel’s taxi take you to Hanoi Railway Station for the night train to get to Laocai Station. Sleep on the train.

 

1st day (Saturday): Lao Cai – Can Cau – Bac Ha (B,L)

06h00:  Picked up at Lao Cai Train Station and have a breakfast.

07h00: 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. Further more, you can enjoy seeing boys and girls in colourful costumes – different colours of the mountains. They attend the market in the hope of finding “the other halves of their lifves” and this is also  the time for them to chat, to exchange everything among different ethnic peoples through cups of wine sold in the market. Say goodbye to the market and transfer to Bac Ha. On the way, spend time visiting a village of the Flower H’mong and then check in hotel in Bac Ha. Free to explore the town.

 

Lunch in Can Cau or in Bac Ha. Overnight and dinner in Bac Ha.

 

2nd day (Sunday): Bac Ha – Ban Pho – Lao Cai – Sapa (B,L)

A walk to Bac Ha market. Visit one village and an old building called The H’mong King’s house. Breakfast and 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 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 Lao Cai. Reach Sapa late in the afternoon. Check in hotel in Sapa.

 

3rd day: Sapa – Y Linh Ho – Lao Chai – Ta Van – Lao Cai (B,L,D)

 

Breakfast at hotel in Sapa. Depart Sapa for the trekking at 10:00 AM. Take the main road (3 km) and go down hill to the valley. Cross Muong Hoa River to get to the other mountainside for 3 villages with rice terraces of Black H’Mong and Day minority: Y Linh Ho, Lao Chai, and Ta Van. Stay the night at a local family in Ta Van village.

Lunch on the way and dinner at the home-stay.

 

4th day (Tuesday): Sapa – Coc Ly – Lao Cai (B,L)

Leave from the village early at 6:30 AM for Coc Ly market, which is situated far from Sapa. Enjoy the peaceful life of 6 different minority peoples (Flower H’mong, Black Dzao, Tay, Dzay, Ha Nhi 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 (Trung Do village) by the river. After the boat trip, visit a small town – BaoNhai and then take car back to Laocai Station for the night train to Hanoi. Have dinner before getting on the train. Arrive in Hanoi roughly 5:00 AM. The end of tour.

 

 

Tour price includes:

–       Meals as mentioned in the itineraries: Vietnamese food, Asian Food basic

–       English speaking guide (Other languages on request)

–       Entrance fees

–       Security permits

–       Accommodation (Hotel and Homestay)

–       Train return tickets Hanoi-Laocai (soft sleeper with air-conditioning, cabin of 04 berth – Tulico Train/King Express Train)

–       Private car (or van) as mentioned in tour program

–       Boat trip in Chay river

–       All taxes & services charge.

 

Tour price excludes: 

–       Insurance

–       Beverages and other meals do not indicate in the program

–       Early check-in and late check-out at hotel

–       Personal expenses (laundry, telephone, shopping…)

–       Tipping/ Gratuities

–       Single supplement

Notes: Advised to take good walking shoes, raincoats, jackets, torch, insect repellent and Sunscreen…

 

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