Option
6 :
Special tour organized on every Saturday
( Minimum: group of 2 people) CanCau market and BacHa
market.
Night 1
( Saturday ) : Hanoi -Laocai
( Overnight on the train )
8h30pm
Sapatours 's taxi take you from your hotel in Hanoi to
Hanoi Railway Station for the night train at at 9:30 PM
to get to Laocai Station. Sleep on the train.(4 people/cabin
or 2 people/cabin on request).
Day 2 : Arrival Laocai - Bacha -
Cancau market (Saturday) (
B, L, D )
CanCau - BacHa: Picked up at Laocai Train Station to transfer
to CanCau market. It takes more than 2 hours to get to
CanCau - 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 BacHa. On the way, spend
time visiting a village of the Flower H'mong and then
check in hotel in BacHa. Free to explore the town. Lunch
in CanCau or in BacHa and dinner in BacHa.
Day 3 (Sunday) : Visit Bacha
market - Sapa ( B, L, D )
A walk to BacHa 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 BacHa 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 (BanPho village) Say
good bye to BacHa and get back to Sapa. On the way back,
drop in to see the Vietnamese and Chinese Harbour Mouth
in LaoCai. Reach Sapa late in the afternoon. Check in
hotel in Sapa.
Day 4 : Visit Sapa (
B, L, D ) Night train
to Hanoi
( 4 hours trekking, 12 km, 2 villages)
Breakfast,
check out hotel at 10:00 AM. Get downhill by jeep 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 for a jeep
back to Sapa. Then take bus to LaoCai Station for the night
train to Hanoi. Dinner on the train.
Arrive
in Hanoi round 5:30 AM. The end of tour
Rate
in USD per person - Valid until 31 Dec 09
Except
Christmas & New Year period
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Number of Persons -
| Class |
2-3 |
4-5 |
6-7 |
Single
Sup |
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Standard |
305 |
245 |
219 |
35 |
|
Superior |
322 |
265 |
237 |
45 |
|
Deluxe - Victoria Sapa |
369 |
309 |
285 |
90 |
| 4
stars on weekend |
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Accommodation
offering in this trip:
( click to see hotel )
Tour
price includes:
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Full meals as mentioned on the tour program ( B = Breakfast,
L = Lunch, D = Dinner )
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1 local beer or soft drink at every lunch and dinner, ,
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English or French - speaking guide
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Entrance fees,
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Accommodation twin share
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Night Train
tickets 2 ways Hanoi-Laocai -Hanoi (soft sleeper with
air-conditioning, cabin of 04 berth - Tulico Train/Ratraco
Train)
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Private bus or jeep as mentioned in tour program.
Excludes :
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Insurance,
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Drinks,
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Phone calls and other private expenses,
Notes:
Advised to take good walking shoes, raincoats, jackets,
torch, insect repellent and sunscreen...
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