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SAPA - CAN CAU - BAC HA - COC LY
MARKET 2 DAYS/3 NIGHTS
Tour type :Pivate tour
Departure date :Friday
Tour Duration :4 days / 5 nights
Explore
the most three special markets in
Northwest Vietnam. Experience the
typical cultural features of the
minorities in remote mountainous
areas in Vietnam. With us discover
Sapa area - one of
the most wonderful places in Asia
and a magical combination of
landscapes, ethnic cultures and
bracing mountain air.
Tour Highlights:
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Bac Ha is where you'll want to stock
up on water buffalo, pigs and
horses.
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To know about handicrafts made by
some of the 10 Montagnard groups
living near here - Flower Hmong,
Dzao, Giay (Nhang), Han (Hoa), Xa
Fang, Lachi, Nung, Phula, Thai and
Thulao.
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will have a welcome feeling at any
house of the hospitable people.
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You can interact them, learn about
their culture and customs.
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Can Cau Market is a small, but very
colourful market, set in the
mountains near the Chinese border.
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The Flower Hmong minority is the
most common here, and their
colourful dresses makes is a
beautiful sight.
Tour Itinerary
Night 1 - Friday: Ha Noi - Lao Cai
Vietnam
TripAdvisor’s
car will pick you up from your hotel
and transfer to Hanoi train station
to catch the overnight train soft
sleeper with AC to Lao Cai station.
Overnight on the train.
Day 1- Saturday:Lao Cai - Can Cau -
Bac Ha (B,L,D)
Vietnam
TripAdvisor’s
car will pick you up at Laocai Train
Station then transfer to
Can Cau market.
It takes more than 2 hours to get to
CanCau - a small market situated in
a valley surrounded by mountains and
only 7 km from China. The market
deeply shows the typical cultural
features of the minorities in remote
mountainous areas in Vietnam.
Further more, you can enjoy seeing
boys and girls in colourful costumes
- different colours of the
mountains. They attend the market in
the hope of finding "the other
halves of their lifves" and this is
also the time for them to chat, to
exchange everything among different
ethnic peoples through cups of wine
sold in the market. Say goodbye to
the market and transfer to BacHa. On
the way, spend time visiting a
village of the Flower H'mong and
then check in hotel in BacHa. Free
to explore the town. Lunch in CanCau
or in BacHa and dinner in BacHa.
Overnight at hotel in Bac Ha (2*
hotel only).
Meals:Breakfast,Lunch,Dinner.
Day 2
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Sunday : Bac Ha
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Sapa (B,L,D)
A walk to BacHa market. Visit one
village and an old building called
The H'mong king's house. Breakfast
and 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
Bac Ha
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
Harbor Mouth in LaoCai. Reach Sapa
late in the afternoon. Check in
hotel in Sapa.
Meals:Breakfast,Lunch,Dinner.
Day 3 - Monday: Sapa - Muong Hoa
valley (B,L,D)
Check out hotel and start a trekking
trip towards Muong Hoa valley to
visit 3 villages of the H, mong, the
Dzay people with around 14 km of
trekking. Enjoy beautiful
landscapes, terraced paddy fields.
Discover the live of the people with
different cultures. Have dinner and
spend the night at the family.
Meals:Breakfast,Lunch,Dinner.
Day 4 - Tuesday: Coc Ly market
(B,L,D)
Leave from the village early at 6:
30 AM for
Coc Ly
market, which is situated far from
Sapa. Enjoy the peaceful life of 6
different minority peoples (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 Fairy Cave is located deeply in
the rocks. Get off the boat to visit
a village of the Tay Minority (Trung
Do village) by the river. After the
boat trip, visit a small town - Bao
Nhai and then
VietnamTripAdvisor’s
car will pick you back to Laocai
Station for the night
train to Hanoi.
Have dinner before getting on the
train.
Day 5
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Wednesday: Hanoi arrival.
Arrive in Hanoi early
morning.Vietnam
TripAdvisor’s
car will pick you up from Hanoi
train station to your hotel. Tour
ends.
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