Tribal Market & Sapa Trek Tour

You will be met and picked up by the tour guide and driver at 8.00 AM. This morning, before starting the trip to the Northwestern Mountains, you will have a morning tour to visit the museum of Ethnology and get the overview about Vietnamese Montagnards. Lunch at a restaurant in Hanoi for a Vietnamese traditional food. In the afternoon, you will travel to Bac Ha District, Lao Cai Province on the HW Noi Bai – Lao Cai. This is the longest highway in Vietnam. The scenic drive from the Red River Delta, through the midland to Lao Cai province will be a good start for your trip. Arrive at Trung Do valley, a Tay ethnic group who used to leave on stilt houses. Check in a homestay. The remainder of the day is just easy and stroll around to visit the village. Dinner and stay overnight.
Accommodation: At a local house in an ethnic Tay people’s village
With guide
Meals: lunch, dinner

After your breakfast at the homestay. Bid farewell to the host and make your way to the market. Here you will see some ethnic minority groups such as Flower Hmong, Phu La, Yao, Tay, Nung…etc. They are from different valleys, gather around for the trading. It is an awesome experience of seeing colors, understanding traditions and feeling the atmosphere. The market offers a variety of local products includes colorful embroidery, handicrafts and all types of daily necessary stuffs. Here also available animal market where people sell and buy or barter animal such as dogs, pot-bellied pigs, cows, buffalos and so on. Lunch is served at a local restaurant. In the afternoon, you take about 3 hour drive to Sapa town. Check in the hotel and relax. Overnight in Sapa.
Accommodation: At a hotel in Sapa Town
With guide
Meals: breakfast, lunch

After your breakfast at the hotel, at 8:30, you get picked and transferred by the car to a trekking point to Y Ling Ho Village, Muong Hoa Valley. Muong Hoa is the biggest valley in Sapa region and bottomed by a rocky river. This is a less-traveled path if you start earlier than other visitors. To start, you trek downhill the valley, the scenery of the rice terraces along your way is very beautiful and could be the highlight of the day. Cross the river on a small suspension bridge and continue the trek uphill. This is rather challenging when it is wet but definitely offers you spectacular view over the valley. Finish your morning scenic trek at Lao Chai Village where your private vehicle awaits you. Get on your car and drive down to Ban Ho Village for lunch at a local restaurant. In the afternoon, we will spend 2,5 hours trek the peaceful path to Nam Toong Red Yao village and down to the main road for the late afternoon drive back to Sapa for the night.
Approx: 11km (both paths)
Accommodation: At a hotel in Sapa Town
With guide
Meals: breakfast, lunch

This morning is easy and free for you to relax and do some shopping at Sapa town (If you would like to keep busy with more trekking our tour guide and driver is always ready at your service). An optional activity you may be interested in is taking a cable-car ride to Fansipan Peak, the Top of Indochina. At 1:00 PM, we leave Sapa for Hanoi on the same HW. Arrive in Hanoi around 6:00 PM. End of our services
With guide
Meals: breakfast, lunch