SM03

Sapa - Ta Phin - Y Linh Ho - Lao Chai - Sapa

Duration:

3

This 3-day, 4-night tour is a perfect combination of trek and culture while visiting the Dao and Black Hmong hill tribe villages at a pace and style that compliments you. This is an unforgettable soft adventure to Sapa that should be part of everyone's time in Vietnam, yet probably only offered by Footprint.

The night before: 8:00 pm transfer to the Hanoi train station for boarding at 9:15 pm. You will be in shared AC soft sleeper cabins to travel North to Lao Cai town.) Today's morning: The train arrives at about 6:00 am; look for the "Footprint Travel" sign when you exit the train station, as our guide will pick you up. Then take a morning drive through the clouds by car / van to Sapa (~ 1.5 hours). When you arrive in Sapa you will be taken to a local restaurant for a morning shower & breakfast. We will then take short ride from Sapa to our trekking base where we start our trek up and down hills (~ 5 - 6 hrs) through terraced rice fields, bamboo ranges and many minority villages. Lunch break before we keep hitting the road to Ta Phin village. Our Dao host family will welcome you to their traditional home where we will share in an ethnic style dinner and stay the night.

Inclusion :

transfer, guide, homestay, train ticket, entrances fee, breakfast, all meals,

Wake up in Sapa town, breakfast at the hotel then enjoy the morning with some of your new friends that you may have met the afternoon before. You have the entire morning and lunch for free time and visiting the lively markets. At around 2:00 pm, travel by car/van down to the south of Sapa town then we will do a mix of wonderful trek & hike along the terraced paddy fields, streams and villages (~ 2- 3 hrs) to visit the peaceful Hmong village of Y Linh Ho to learn more about the Black Hmong. You will return to Sapa by van. A refreshing shower will be arranged before your train in Sapa or Lao Cai. Dinner on your own well before the train leaves for Hanoi and arrives to Hanoi at about 5:00 am. Please find your own way back to your hotel (a taxi normally costs you a set of about 50,000 dong to the hotel in the city center)

Inclusion :

transfer, guide, train ticket, entrances fee, breakfast,

2 persons: $US 227/person
4 persons: $US 177 /person
S.S: $US 32.00

insurance, drinks & personal expense, tips, others not mentioned in details

passport, change of clothes, sun-glasses & hat, toiletries, sun-block, insect repel, good shoes

-	We use standard 2 star hotel,

-	No need to have sleeping bag, but you can bring your own if you want at homestay,

-	Homestay condition is very basic, please expect the simple things,

-	AC soft sleeper train to Sapa, please see our FAQs on www.Footprint.Vn

-	Tour itinerary and price are subject to change without prior notice,

-	Please travel responsibly: The small things you do will make a big difference!

-	The trek time is just approximate and depending on speed and weather.