DETAILED ITINERARY.

The guide will pick you up from your hotel to Hanoi Railway Station for the night train to get to Lao Cai Station.

Sleep on the train (4 people/cabin or 2 people/cabin on request).

Picked up at Laocai Station early in the morning by our bus. Arrive at Sapa round 8: 00 AM; Breakfast start at 10h30am to get to Laochai village. Enjoy the overall pictures of the villages among terraces. Visit the H'mong living in wooden and bamboo houses. Continue going to Tavan village to visit the Dzay minority. Picnic lunch on the way and dinner and overnight at the home-stay.

Stay the night in Tavan village at a Dzay family.

Breakfast with the local family and then get to a village located at the foot of HoangLienSon range via bamboo forests. Visit a waterfall and a rattan bridge. After visitting Giang ta chai village, get down to the river, cross it and keep going to SuPan village for 2 minorities - The H'mong and the Red Dzao.Get off the road to go down hill to BanHo village. Picnic lunch on the way and dinner at the family.

Overnight at Ban Ho with a Tay family who have houses on stilts.

Get up early in the morning for fresh air and peaceful daily life of the people. Breakfast and leave the village for a hard day. Walk uphill to a smallest and almost untouched village of the Red Dzao (Namtoong). Go further to another village on the same side of of the mountain range to see the XaPho ethnic group in NamKen. Get down to the river and go up to MiSon to visit the XaPho again. Spend the night in Thanh Phu village at a Tay family. Picnic lunch on the way and dinner with the local family.

Overnight in homestay.

Breakfast at Thanh Phu village. Walk back to SuPan village where Vietnam car take you back to Sapa. On the way back, visit the ancient stone circle (stones decorated with ancient carvings which are said to have described the life of the people lost in the mists of prehistory). Check in hotel. Lunch at Su Pan and dinner in Sapa.

Overnight in hotel.

Breakfast, visit village of the black H'mong (Cat Cat), walk around visiting people in the village and the hydroelectric power station built by the French in the old days. Back town have lunch and check out hotel, free to explore the town until take bus to get to Laocai Station for the night train back to Hanoi. Overnight on the train. Arrive in Hanoi around 5.00 AM. The end of the tour.

PACKAGE COST:

Rates are in USD per person, based on twin shared, valid from Jan 1^st 2012 to Dec 31^st 2012

INCLUSIVE OF ABOVE PRICES:

v  Food (All meals on the tour: B=Breakfast, L = Lunch, D=Dinner)

v  English-speaking guide

v  Entrance fees

v  Accommodation (Hotel and home-stay)

v  Train tickets 2 ways Hanoi-Laocai -Hanoi (soft sleeper with air-conditioning)

v  Transport by private jeep or minibus as tour program.

EXCLUSIVE OF ABOVE PRICES:

v  Visa application fee to Vietnam

v  Personal expenses

v  Other meals and drinks

v  Late check-out & early check in for accommodation at the places

v  Airport tax and departure tax

v  All other services not made on the written form

v  Insurance

v  Tips and gratuities

WHAT TO BRING: 

v  Sun block

v  Camera + Film

v  Insect repellent

v  Original Passport

v  A wide brimmed hat

v  Sun glasses.

v  Proper shoes