Get started: transfer to Hanoi railway station for the night train at 9.30pm to get to Lao Cai station. Sleep on the train.

1st day( Saturday): Can Cau – Bac Ha market.

Picked up at Lao Cai train station to transfer to CanCau market. It takes more than 2 hours to get to CanCau market- 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 te market in the hope of finding “ the other halves of their lives” and this is also the time for them to chat, to exchange everything among different ethnic poeples through cups of wine sold in the mrket. Say goodbye to the market and transfer to BacHa. 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 and dinner in Bac Ha.

2nd day ( Sunday) Bac Ha - Sapa

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 colouful 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 mrket 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 goodbye 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- Lao Cai- Hanoi

Breakfast, check out hotel at 10am. Trek 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 and then take jeep back to  Sapa. Then take bus to Lao Cai train station for the night train to Hanoi. Arrive in Hanoi round 5.00am.

Price: $ 156 USD/ person (min 2pax)

Tour includes:

Bus Lao Cai – Sapa- Lao Cai, Accomodation ( hotel and homestay)

Soft sleeper train ( reture tickets)

All meals on tour except for last dinner.

Entrance fees to the villages

English speaking guide

Jeep  back as timetable – security services- boat trip

Excludes: insurance, Drinks, Phone calls and other private expenses, VAT.