3 Night Sapa Trekking Tour from Hanoi; Night train; Home-stay; Local guide

1. Save time and accommodation costs in one fell swoop on this 3-night (2-day tour) to Sapa.
2. Travel overnight by first-class sleeper train, with round-trip transfers from downtown Hanoi hotels.
3. Spend your first day hiking through colorful minority villages to Ta Van Village where you sleep in a home-stay; on day 2, hike to a waterfall and a handicraft center. Your package includes a guide and six authentic meals.
4. Discover the rich minority cultures around Sapa on a 3-night 2-day tour and hiking through rice terraces, bamboo forests, and hill tribe villages

Itinerary

Day 1: Lao Cai - Sapa - Ta Van - Y Linh Ho (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)

Stop At: The Stone Church, 38 Ngo C_u May, Sapa 330000 Vietnam
Around 5:40 am We will pick up at Lao Cai Station upon your early arrival for over an hour drive uphill in a shared mini van to Sapa. Around 7:30 am You have breakfast at hotel. You can take a shower at our hotel. If you have many luggage, you can leave your luggage at our hotel, only bring what is necessary with you to home-stay. You will come back our hotel on the last day to take your luggage and have dinner before back to Hanoi
Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Muong Hoa Valley, Sapa 333108 Vietnam
Around 9:30 am Group begin trekking trip. You will follow the main road heading south for about an hour before turning right to a foot path down hill to Muong Hoa Valley. This part offers spectacular scenery of the highest part of Hoang Lien Son mountain range and in a nice day, Fansipan peak can be seen.
Duration: 20 hours

Stop At: Y Linh Ho, Lao Chai Tl152, Sapa 290000 Vietnam
Crossing the river by a suspension bridge you will challenge your feet uphill to Y Linh Ho village. Here you will pay visiting to some H’mong families, watching them doing their daily works.
Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Ta Van Village, Sapa 330000 Vietnam
After Lunch, the trail continues up and down hill for about 2 hours as you reach to Lao Chai, a large village of the H’mong and then following the river bank to Ta Van of the Zay people. Paying visiting to local homes, village schools… you will enjoy much your cultural discovery of local ethnic peoples as well as breathtaking scenery of the Muong Hoa Valley. Settle down in Ta Van village for an overnight home stay.
Duration: 10 hours

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Home-stay in Ta Van

Day 2: Ta Van - Giang Ta Chai - Hau Thao - Hanoi (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)

Stop At: Ta Van Village, Sapa 330000 Vietnam
Around 7:00 am You enjoy breakfast at home-stay in a wonderful area of Ta Van village where you stayed overnight.
Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Giang Ta Chai Village, Ta Van Commune, Sapa 008420 Vietnam
9:00 am Group begin second day tour. You will take the trail uphill, passing fascinating terraced rice field and some small hamlets of the H’mong before getting through a bamboo forest to a waterfall, enjoy a break for magnificent scenery and then continue walking for half an hour to Giang Ta Chai village of the Red Zao peoples which sits on the top of a hill and looks down Muong Hoa river.
Duration: 3 minutes

Stop At: Sapa Ancient Stone Gallery, Hầu Thào, Sa Pa, Lào Cai, Vietnam
After spending time visiting the village, making friend with the Zao and experiencing the hospitality you will cross the river by another suspension bridge and then uphill again to Hau Thao village where you will pay visiting to a local handicraft center where H’mong and Zao women gather for exchanging experience and skill of making handicrafts. Lunch will be prepared here nearby this center and then you have time relaxing as well as getting acquaintance with local school boys, girls and their teachers as well.
Duration: 1 day 6 hours

Stop At: Train Ticket Office, Renmin Rd, Lào Cai, Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan, China
17:30 Have dinner at hotel. Then our guide pick you up at hotel and take you to Lao Cai station. Overnight train to Hanoi.
Duration: 1 hour

Pass By: Old Quarter, Hanoi 100000 Vietnam
You will arrive in Hanoi at 4:40 am next day and you take a taxi back to your hotel by yourself (from Hanoi train station to Hanoi Old Quarter is 1 kilometer only).

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: No accommodation