NIGHT 1: HANOI - NIGHT BUS/TRAIN
OPTION 1: HANOI - NIGHT BUS
21.00 - 21.30 Our shuttle bus will pick you up at your hotels/hostel 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).
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: BIKING TOUR: SAPA – MA TRA – TA PHIN – TAKO - TRUNG CHAI - SAPA (BREAKFAST/ LUNCH/ DINNER)
6.00 Our tourguide 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.
09:00 Our tour guide will pick you up at hotel/hostel in Sapa town. We will start our journey by riding mostly downhill through the suburb of Sapa.
From Sapa town, we ride along the smoothy road for 3 km, then get off the main road to head to Ma Tra village - a H'Mong village with beautiful mountain lanscape, rice terraces, water bufaloes and corn field, pine hill then continue heading downhill tovisit Ta Phin village.
Arrive at Ta Phin village, you will walk around the village to see the local life style of the Red Dzao and H'Mong people at this village before having lunch at a local family at Trung Chai village.
After lunch, we keep riding up hill then down hill through the forest to Tako pass. Riding back to Sapa town.
Enjoy a dinner and free time in the evening. Stay overnight at the Hotel.
DAY 2: TREKKING TOUR: SAPA – Y LINH HO – LAO CHAI – TA VAN - SAPA - HANOI (BREAKFAST/ LUNCH/ DINNER)
Have breakfast at hotel.
9.00 We start 3km of walking down to the south east of Sapa along the side of Muong Hoa valley to Y Linh Ho village of the Black H’mong - visit local school and local houses then continue 4km of trekking down to Lao Chai village of the H’mong.
We continue to trek more 4 Km through terraced rice fields to Ta Van village of the Dzay minority people. This is a good chance to learn about the local architecture, daily life styles and customs.
Have dinner then we transfer you to bus/train station by shuttle bus. 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).
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