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Tour
code: SPL-02 |
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Duration:
3 days/ 4 nights |
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Departure:
Every evening from Hanoi |
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Pick
up: At your hotel in Hanoi |
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Grade:
Easy |
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Description |
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an overnight journey in the most comfortable train carriage,
you will enjoy much of the natural beauty of the Hoang
Lien Son range of mountains even along the way uphill
to Sapa. You will be relaxing in fresh air with perfect
setting at the Victoria Resort as well as admiring the
magnificent and breathtaking landscapes, discovering the
diversity of culture while paying visit to all the best
sites in and around Sapa Town. |
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ITINERARY |
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Night
1: Take
overnight train from Hanoi to Lao Cai
Please, be ready at your hotel lobby at 20.00 for a short
transfer to Hanoi railways station. Tonight you will travel
to Lao Cai on sleeping train in the most comfortable 4
bed cabin of Victoria compartment or in 2 bed deluxe cabin
of other train carriage. |
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Day
1 // Lao
Cai // Sapa
Town’s Highlights |
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The
train arrives in Lao Cai early at about 06.00, meet your
guide as you check out the station. In a private car,
you will travel uphill the Hoang Lien Son mountains to
Sapa and enjoy as many stops as you wish for over views
of valleys and terraced rice fields as well as magnificent
scenery.
Breakfast and check in Victoria hotel upon arrival to
Sa Pa if your room available. Later your guide will show
you around this charming town for a brief introduction.
Ten minute walk from Victoria hotel, you will be the market
where ethnic minority people of different groups wearing
their traditional costumes made by themselves comes every
day selling local products includes vegetable, bamboo
shoot, mushroom, medicinal herbs and souvenirs…there
are chances to get intact and taking photos. Later you
will follow the footsteps uphill to the top of Ham Rong
Mountain for over viewing beautiful scenery of the town
and surrounding area, paying visit to an orchard garden
and a mini museum which tell you a lot about ethnic minority
people living in Sapa and the northwest.
Evening is set free at your leisure. You may have dinner
at the fine restaurant of the Victoria Hotel or your guide
may help you to book a table in a chosen restaurant in
town. |
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Breakfast included, Lunch & Dinner on your own |
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Accommodation: Victoria Hotel in Sapa |
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Day
2 // Ta
Phin Commune //
Silver Waterfall //
Tram Ton Pass |
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Today
morning, you will visit Ta Phin commune. Located in a
large valley, surrounded by high mountains, which covered
by pine trees and forest, Ta Phin Commune is home to the
Red Zao and Black H’mong ethnic. Although living
close to each other for years, these two ethnic peoples
are very different: The H’mong are cheerful and
open minded while the Red Zao are economical and reserved…
Your guide and driver will pick you up at the hotel for
a transfer to the center of the valley and from here take
an easy walk following village path around the valley,
passing by and paying visit to Black Hemming houses scattering
on mountain slopes. From high elevation, great view of
the valley stretching under your feet. Continue your walk
to the Red Zao village in which you will meet groups of
women making handicrafts includes embroidered clothes,
handbags… Drive back to your hotel and enjoy noon
break.
Meet your guide and driver again for a leisure trip. The
drive uphill offers most spectacular scenery of Fansipan
Mount. Just a kilometer out of the town, rose flower farms
and later chayote grows on bamboo frames covered a vast
area. We’ll stop at the magnificent Silver Waterfall
before reaching to the top of the highest mountain pass
in Vietnam. The wind blows stronger to force the clouds
moving constantly. It is the best point here to enjoy
breathtaking scenery of the two side of Fansipan Mountain
Range. Amazingly that the weather is very different by
the side: In many days It is foggy and cloudy on Sa Pa
side and sunny brightly the other side.
The rest time in the afternoon and evening is set free
at your leisure. |
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Breakfast and Lunch included, Dinner on your own |
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Accommodation: Victoria Hotel in Sapa |
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Day
3 // Visit
Muong Hoa Valley //
Night train to Hanoi |
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Today
you will spend the whole day exploring the spectacular
Muong Hoa lying on the south of Sapa Town. Your car will
take you along the only road built on the side of a mountain
range, looking down the valley, over viewing magnificent
landscapes composed of high mountains, deep valleys, and
stream of water winding, waterfalls and terraced rice
paddies…Many time, leaving the main road, you will
enjoy short walk to tribal villages such as Ta Van of
the Zay, Su Pan of the Black H’mong, Ban Ho of the
Tay… meeting locals at home and at works.
Leaving Ban Ho in afternoon, your car takes you back to
Sapa, freshen up and then transfer down hill to Lao Cai
station for taking the Victoria overnight train to Hanoi
which arrives in Hanoi early at 05.30 to 06.00 next morning. |
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Breakfast and Lunch included, Dinner on your own |
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Overnight train in Victoria carriage or in 2 bed deluxe
cabin of other train carriage. |
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Tour
Price per person in US Dollars |
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| Group
size |
2
persons |
3-6
persons |
7-10
persons |
Single
Surcharge |
| First
Class Train |
438 |
400 |
350 |
140 |
| Victoria
Train |
485 |
448 |
398 |
140 |
| Chidren
Policy |
Under
6 free, from 7 to 11 charge 75 %, 12 years and above
pay for adult price |
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Tour
price includes |
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Transfer with private car as indicated in day by day itinerary.
• Return train tickets in 4 bed cabin of Victoria
carriage or deluxe 2 bed cabin of other train carriage.
• Accommodation: 2 nights in Superior room, Victoria
Sa Pa Hotel.
• All meals as listed in day by day itinerary.
• Visiting fee, tax and service charge.
• Local English speaking tour guide.
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Tour
price excludes |
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Meals not indicated in day by day itinerary.
• Drinks and personal expenses.
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Contact
us to book this tour |
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Others
Sapa Luxury Holidays |
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A
Glimpse Of Sapa (SPL-01) |
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The
Best Of Sapa (SPL-02) |
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Vietnam's
Miraculous Land (SPL-03) |
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Sapa
and Remote Villages Experience (SPL-04) |
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Sapa
Highlights and Traditional Market (SPL-05) |
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Others
Sapa Tours Catalogue |
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Sapa
Budget Tours |
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Sapa
Classic Trips |
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Sapa
Trekking and Adventure Tours |
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Sapa
Cycling Options |
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Traditional
Minority Markets Excursions |
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Northern
Mountain Discovery Packages |
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