Can Cau Market – Sapa Tour – 2 Days

Can Cau is a small Saturday market near the Chinese border. It is very beautiful with colorful ethnic minorities’ costumes. Here you can meet several minorities such as Flower H’Mong and Black Dao, and Nung minorities. The market offers a variety of local products that cannot be found in other areas, as well as Chinese goods.

Tour Level: Easy adventure
Group Size: Private only – 2 persons minimum and above
Tour Customizable: Absolutely! (Tell us your specific requirements in the inquiry form)

ITINERARY

Night 01: Hanoi – Lao Cai (Train)

Be ready at your hotel lobby at 8:10 p.m, our tour guide and driver will meet and pick you up for a short transfer to Hanoi Station to take the overnight train to Lao Cai City.
• Overnight on the train

Day 01: Lao Cai – Can Cau – Sapa (Saturday)

The train arrives at the Lao Cai train station at approximately 06:00, having breakfast then drive up hill to Can Cau Market Place. The journey takes about 2.5 hours through the lush farmland of Lao Cai plateau and later spectacular mountain scenery of Bac Ha District. Arriving right at its most crowded time, the market is filled with cheerful faces and you will be absorbed into the market by festive atmosphere, colorful traditional dresses, exotic smell of corn wine and herb… until noon when it gets over to realize the beautiful surrounding. Driving back to Sapa town, you will check in hotel.

• Breakfast and Lunch included. Dinner on your own
• Accommodation:  3 stars hotel in Sapa town

Day 02: Sapa – Lao Chai – Ta Van – Sapa – Lao Cai – Night train to Hanoi (B, L)

Breakfast in the hotel we then, embark on a lovely trek that will take us along buffalo paths and trails and through several hills tribe villages Lao Chai & Ta Van, home to Black H’mong, and Dzay people. This is an absolutely spectacular walk through stunning scenery inhabited by some of the friendliest people you can meet. Once on the valley floor you can really appreciate the wonderful scenery that surrounds you. The walls of the valley are covered with multi-layered rice terraced fields and scattered villages. Return to Sapa and then to Lao Cai railway station by car. The guide sees you off there and takes you on the night train.

• Breakfast and Lunch included. Dinner on your own
• Accommodation: Night train back Hanoi

Night 03: Hanoi
5h00 am, arrival Hanoi train station, our staff will pick up and transfer you to your hotel. Trip finish !

What is included?

    English speaking guide
    Transfer and transportation in Hanoi and Sapa
    Return overnight train basing on first class 4 berth shared cabin with air-con
    Meals indicated in itinerary (B: as breakfast; L: as lunch; D: as dinner)
    Entrance fees & permits
    Accommodation at 3 stars hotel in Sapa town.

What is excluded?

    Personal travel insurance (compulsory)
    Personal expenses: Bar, Telephone and Laundry bills
    Tips and gratuities

Note

    The hotel will change due to the availabilities. In that case we will choose the equivalent hotels
    This tour starts on Friday only from Hanoi