Trip Name: Sapa Active Adventure 5 days
Type of trip: Private
Trip Duration: 5 Days
Starting: Hanoi, Vietnam
Finishing: Hanoi, Vietnam
Trip Grading: Combine hard trekking and moderate walking
Destinations: Sapa - Su Pan – Ban Ho – Nam Tong - Thanh Phu – Sin Chai B- Nam Nhiu – My Son - Bac Ha
Flexibility: This sample itinerary can be amended longer or shorter accordingly to meet your expectation.
Highlights: The 3 full day adventure Sapa tour is a hard trek adventure, this trip is customized for active adventure travelers, features 2 nights of home-stay experiences with local tribal families, stunning scenic trekking. Plus a visit to Bac Ha weekend market. Round trip transported by comfortable and clean train, private comfortable car or mini van.
Brief Itinerary:
Day 1, Thursday: Hanoi boarding the night train
Night train to Lao Cai
Day 2, Friday: Sapa - Su Pan – Ban Ho – Nam Tong - Thanh Phu (B,L,D)
Enjoy a walk to visit Sapa local market, interacting with some friendly tribal Sapa people,
Travel to ethnic group’s villages
Day 3, Saturday: Thanh Phu - Sin Chai B - Nam Nhiu – My Son – Ban Ho (B,L,D)
Venture the big adventure trekking day off the bitten track. Overnight at home stay
Day 4, Sunday: Ban Ho – Bac Ha – Lao Cai – boarding the night train return to Hanoi (B, L)
Travel to Bac Ha weekend market - the largest market in the region. Night train to Hanoi
Arrive at Hanoi station at 0500 Am.
Day 1, Thursday: Hanoi – Lao Cai train station
Asia Top Travel guide and transportation will pick up you at your hotel, transfer you to Hanoi rail way station for boarding the overnight train departing to Sapa. Air-conditioned 4 berth cabin with western toilet facility. Private cabin is applicable in advance.
Overnight on train
Day 2, Friday: Sapa - Su Pan – Ban Ho – Nam Tong - Thanh Phu (B,L,D)
Upon arrival at Lao Cai Railway station in the early morning, our awaiting guide will pick you up and transfer you to Sapa for freshen up, have breakfast at a local restaurant in Sapa, you enjoy a walk to visit Sapa local market, interacting with some friendly tribal Sapa people, then travel by car to Su Pan where you begin to trek downhill through the breathtaking scenery to Ban Ho village of Tay people, followed by a picnic lunch. After lunch, you continue the trekking, pass through Nam Tong village of Red Dao people. This village is native and isolated. The journey is continued to Thanh Phu village of Tay people. Check in our host’s family, freshen up, then you are free on your own to walk around village to explore local daily life while dinner is prepared.
Have dinner with your friendly host and learn more of the local culture. Overnight at home-stay.
Approx: 1 hour driving/ 5 hours trekking/ 1 hour lunch.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Homestay
Day 3, Saturday: Thanh Phu - Sin Chai B - Nam Nhiu – My Son – Ban Ho(B,L,D)
After enjoying breakfast. You venture the big adventure trekking day off the bitten track. Trek from Thanh Phu through the scenic hilly area to Sin Chai B, a remote village of Red Dao people. You visit the village, interact with local people and have lunch in Sin Chai B. After lunch, we trek on a trail to Nam Nhiu village of Red Dao people, then continue along the trail to My Son village of Xa Pho minority people. Then continue to Ban Ho Village Here you spend a night in traditional of Tay minority people
Approx: 6,5 hours trekking/ 1 hour lunch
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Home-stay
Day 4, Sunday: Ban Ho – Bac Ha – Lao Cai (B, L)
Wake up in the morning, you enjoy an early breakfast and repack your luggage to depart to Bac Ha weekend market by van.
Bac Ha is the largest market in the region, many ethnic groups gather to buy and sell, eat and drink together. There are 10 minority groups in the Bac Ha region. In the afternoon we will have a 2 hour soft adventure trek to Ban Pho village of Flower H’Mong people, then you will be transferred back to Lao Cai by late afternoon to visit the border-crossing Ha Khau of Vietnam and China. Here you get a chance for enjoy a coffee while watching the world going by on the Chinese border, just over a small river from Vietnam. Have dinner on your own cost. Saying good bye to your guide and board the night train return to Hanoi. Overnight on the train
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Accommodation: Overnight on train
Day 5, Monday: Hanoi
Arriving at Hanoi station at 0500 Am, our driver will pick up you at Hanoi Railway station, transfer you to your hotel for early check in. End of services.
This is a sample itinerary so the cost really depends on your hotel choice, number of people in your group and time of travel.
Please send us your enquiry for availabilities & the most up dated price.
Tour price inclusive:
English-speaking guide, Entrance fees.
Accommodation (Home stay)
Train tickets 2 ways Hanoi-Lao Cai -Hanoi (soft sleeper with air-conditioning, cabin of 04 berth)
Transport by private Jeep as tour program.
Jeep go and back as the program.
Meals as indicated in the itinerary
Tour price exclusive:
Insurance,
Drinks, Phone calls, other private expenses.