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SAPA 2 MARKETS AND CHAY RIVER 3
DAYS/4 NIGHTS
Can Cau
–
Bac Ha - Trung Do - Chay River
–Lao
Chai - Ta Van - Giang Ta Chai
Departure date: Friday
Tour: Private
Introduction:
 Located
38km from Lao Cai City, Sapa is a
mountainous district of Lao Cai
Province. Sapa District is very
well-known with Sapa Townlet, a
beautiful and romantic resort.
At the height of 1,600m above sea
level, the average temperature of
the area is
15-18°C.
It is cool in summer and cold in
winter.
Bac Ha Sunday Market - Some 100km
(62 miles) from Sapa, this is
probably the most famous market in
the region and more along the lines
of what Sapa was once like. Here,
various hill tribes converge every
Sunday morning to conduct commerce.
As a visitor, you're certainly part
of the trade here because folks are
keen to sell you their wares.
Tour Highlights
As some trip to Sapa,we often visit
Cat Cat village.
In this trip we have chance to visit
Can Cau market on Saturday only.
Can Cau Market
is a small, but very colourful
market, set in the mountains near
the Chinese border.
BacHa is the biggest market in Sapa
and open on Sunday only. The Sunday
market in Bac Ha is where you'll
want to stock up on water buffalo,
pigs and horses.
Detailed Ititnerary
Night 1 Friday: Hanoi - Lao Cai
Vietnam
TripAdvisor’s
car pick you up at your hotel and
transfer to Hanoi train station for
the night train to Lao Cai station.
Overnight on AC Soft Sleeper Hanoi -
Lao Cai train
Meals: Breakfast, Luch, Dinner
Day 1 (Saturday): CanCau
–
Bac Ha
Picked up at Laocai Train Station to
transfer to CanCau 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
lifvesÃÆ’Æ’¢ÃÆ’¢â€šÂ¬ÃÆ’‚ÂÂÂÂÂÂ
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.
Meals : Breakfast, Luch, Dinner
Day 2: (Sunday): Bac Ha - Trung Do -
Chay River
–Sapa
 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 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 Trung Do village, visit
the Tay then get on boat along Chay
river. Get off boat for jeep at Bao
Nhai then continue 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 in Sapa.
Meals : Breakfast, Luch, Dinner
Day 3 : (Monday): Sapa - Lao Chai -
Ta Van - Giang Ta Chai - Lao Cai
Breakfast, check out hotel at 10:00
AM. Get downhill to the valley for 3
villages of the Black
H’mong,
the Dzay & Red Dzao people. Lunch at
a Dzay family. Get up to the road
for a car back to Sapa. Then take
shuttle bus to LaoCai Station for
the night train to Hanoi. Dinner at
Lao Cai Station.Overnight on the
train
Meals : Breakfast, Luch, Dinner
Day 4 : Hanoi
Getting back to Hanoi from Sapa trip
so early at around 5am. Private car
pick up then transfer to your hotel.
Tour ends.
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