Bac Ha & Coc Ly - Special Markets (Every Saturday)
Overview
Stop off:
Sapa Trekking (3 days 4 nights), BacHa and Cocly - Special markets and boat trip. Every Saturday
ITINERARY
Night 1 (Saturday): Hanoi - Laocai (Overnight on the train) 20h15: Pick you up from your hotel in Hanoi to Hanoi Railway Station for the night train at 21h15 to get to Laocai Station. Sleep on the train. (4 people/cabin or 2 people/cabin on request).
Day 1 (Sunday): Sapa - BacHa market - Sapa Picked up at Laocai Railway Station by jeep for BacHa market, 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.
Day 2 (Monday) Sapa - BanHo village - Sapa Jeep to Supan village and a short walk to BanHo village to visit the Tay ethnic people who have houses on stilts. Lunch at a local family. Back to Sapa
Day 3 (Tuesday) Sapa - Cocly market
Leave from Sapa early at 7h00 for CocLy market, which is situated far from Sapa. Enjoy the peaceful life of 6 different minority people (Flower H'mong, Black Dzao, Tay, Dzay, HaNhi and Nung). The market is the chance for the minorities to meet and share joy and sorrows after the crops, to exchange one another's experience. Say goodbye to the market and get down onto a boat along Chay river. You are bound to feel great and find yourselves smaller among high rock mountains and to be surprised at white and breathtakingly waterfalls. The FairyCave is located deeply in the rocks. Get off the boat to visit a village of the Tay Minority (TrungDo village) by the river. After the boat trip, visit a small town - BaoNhai and then take jeep back to Laocai Station for the night train to Hanoi. Have dinner before getting on the train.
Arrive in Hanoi roughly 5h30. The end of tour.
Tour cost: Rate in USD per person
Class
2-3 pax
4-5 pax
6-7 pax
Single sup
Standard
303
240
210
30
Superior
332
266
240
50
Duluxe
424
360
333
140
4 stars on weekend
Accommodation offering in this trip
Town
Standard
Superior
Duluxe
Sapa
Cat cat view
Royal view
Victoria sapa
Tour Price Includes:
- All meals on the tour (3 Breakfasts, 3 Lunches, 3 Dinners) - English-speaking guide - Entrance fees- Accommodation (Hotel and home-stay) - Night train tickets 2 ways (soft sleeper with air-conditioning, cabin of 04 berths) - Transport by private jeep or minibus as tour program.
Tour Price Excludes - Insurance, Drinks, Phone calls and other private expenses
Notes: Advised to take good walking shoes, raincoats, jackets, torch, insect repellent and sunscreen...
Royal 1 Hotel
Add: 90 Cau Go - Hoan Kiem - Ha Noi
Tel: 04.3824 5222 Fax: 04.38246 725
Email: royalhotel1@hotmail.com
Website: www.hanoiroyalhotel.com
Royal 2 Hotel
Add: 11 Hang Manh - Hoan Kiem - Ha Noi
Tel: 04.3928 6479 - Fax: 04.38246 725
Email: royalhotel2@hotmail.com
Website: www.hanoiroyalhotel.com