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Tour
code: SPL-03 |
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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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highest mountain range of Vietnam, Hoang Lien Son divides
the Northwest Vietnam into two very different climate
region which leads to a big different in plantation and
landscapes. During three days of this trip you will explore
both the two sides of this mountain range for its beauty
of nature as well as observing daily life of different
ethnic minority peoples for your discovery of their interesting
culture and way of life. |
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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 // Visit
Ta Phin Valley //
Walking Sapa Town |
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Upon
early arrival to Lao Cai station, you will meet your guide
and drive, taking a shower and enjoy Breakfast in a restaurant
near the station. After over an hour driving uphill with
several photo stops you will get to the center of a large
and oval shape valley of Ta Phin, locating in a perfect
surrounding nature of the high mountains, green pine tree
plantations and impressive terraced rice paddies built
on hill slopes. You will enjoy an easy walk around the
valley for and ours through rice paddies and small hamlets
scattering around, paying visit to local homes as well
as meeting them busy with their daily work and activities.
Arriving in Sapa town after 20 minutes drive, check in
the Victoria Hotel and time at your leisure for relax
and Lunch.
In middle afternoon, you Sapa guide will come to meet
you again for a leisure walk around this charming town.
Visiting Sapa market, you will see a lot of local farming
products and spices for sale and meet many H’mong
and Zao peoples in their colorful traditional dresses
who come from nearby villages every day to the market
selling their gatherings and hand made handicrafts…
Continue walking uphill to Ham Rong mountain to visit
a pretty orchid garden and then onto the top for breathtaking
scenery of the town. The rest hour of the afternoon is
at your leisure. |
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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 // Excursion
to the west side of Hoang Lien Son Mountain range |
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Leaving
the Victoria after Breakfast for a drive uphill the mountain
pass, magnificent landscapes of the high mountains one
sitting on others and covered by thick forest of Hoang
Lien Son nature reserve stretches along the other side
of a lush valley. After a short stop at the Silver Waterfall,
14km from Sapa, you will continue driving uphill to the
top of the pass. At over 1,800m above sea level, this
is the highest road point in Vietnam and from here spectacular
scenery of the west side opens wide in your sight. After
along break for enjoying the immense of nature and landscapes,
you will get down hill while the scenery changes after
every bend. Getting to the foot of the mountain, you will
pay visiting to Chu Va, a Red H’mong village and
then continue to Binh Lu, a small town at the center of
the valley where you will spend about half an hour a the
market where local ethnic peoples such as Red H’mong,
Black Zao, Lu often come to sell their farming products
and other gatherings such as firewood, bamboo shoot, mushroom…
After Lunch in a local restaurant, we shall leave the
main road for driving through lush farm land of the Binh
Lu valley, paying visit to Pa Pen village of the Lu and
Na Hum village of the Thai. Peoples from these two ethnic
groups live in large villages including hundreds of houses
built on stilts and maintain their strong traditional
way of living. Especially the Lu peoples still dye their
teeth black. Taking the same way back in the afternoon,
you may wish to have several photo stops along the way
and arriving back to Sapa before it gets dark. |
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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
tribal villages in Muong Hoa Valley //
Overnight train to Hanoi |
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Muong
Hoa is a long valley lying between the Den Thang and Hoang
Lien ranges of mountain on the south of Sapa town which
is famous for its stunning landscapes and is home to the
majority population of Sapa’s ethnic minority peoples
including the Black H’mong, Zay, Red Zao. Leaving
the Victoria after Breakfast, the road ride will take
you southwards of Sapa along the only narrow road to Muong
Hoa valley. Spectacular scenery of the highest part of
Hoang Lien Range including Fansipan peak can be seen in
the first 7km of the road trip with many photo stops.
Then the valley suddenly opens wide as you reach to Lao
Chai. From high elevation of the road you can see the
whole valley, the Muong Hoa River winds its way through
the valley bottom and small villages and hamlets of the
H’mong and Zay peoples scattering on the other side
of the river, even very high on hills slopes. Leaving
the main road, you will take a walk following the foot
path downhill and then crossing the river to the other
side to pay visiting to Lao Chai village of the H’mong
and Ta Van of the Zay during which you will drop in several
local homes for experiencing their hospitability as well
as observing the traditional living way. After Lunch at
a beautiful village lodge, you will walk down to the river,
swimming if you like and then take the road ride few kilometers
further for the scenery of the waterfall before driving
back to Sapa in the middle afternoon. Taking a shower
and then transfer downhill to Lao Cai for taking the overnight
train to Hanoi which arrives early next morning to end
the trip. |
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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 |
511 |
466 |
412 |
140 |
| Victoria
Train |
643 |
598 |
544 |
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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