The Best Of Sapa 3 days

Departure: Every evening from Hanoi     
Pick up: At your hotel in Hanoi     

Description     
After an overnight journey in the most comfortable train carriage, you will enjoy much of the natural beauty of the Hoang Lien Son range of mountains even along the way uphill to Sapa. You will be relaxing in fresh air with perfect setting at the Victoria Resort as well as admiring the magnificent and breathtaking landscapes, discovering the diversity of culture while paying visit to all the best sites in and around Sapa Town.     

ITINERARY     

Night 1: Take overnight train from Hanoi to Lao Cai

Please, be ready at your hotel lobby at 20.00 for a short transfer to Hanoi railways station. Tonight you will travel to Lao Cai on sleeping train in the most comfortable 4 bed cabin of Chapa Express Train or deluxe cabin of other train carriage.     

Day 1: Lao Cai – Sapa Town’s Highlights     

The train arrives in Lao Cai early at about 06.00, meet your guide as you check out the station. In a private car, you will travel uphill the Hoang Lien Son mountains to Sapa and enjoy as many stops as you wish for over views of valleys and terraced rice fields as well as magnificent scenery.

Breakfast and check in Victoria hotel upon arrival to Sapa if your room available. Later your guide will show you around this charming town for a brief introduction. Ten minute walk from Victoria hotel, you will be the market where ethnic minority people of different groups wearing their traditional costumes made by themselves comes every day selling local products includes vegetable, bamboo shoot, mushroom, medicinal herbs and souvenirs…there are chances to get intact and taking photos. Later you will follow the footsteps uphill to the top of Ham Rong Mountain for over viewing beautiful scenery of the town and surrounding area, paying visit to an orchard garden and a mini museum which tell you a lot about ethnic minority people living in Sapa and the northwest.

Evening is set free at your leisure. You may have dinner at the fine restaurant of the Victoria Hotel or your guide may help you to book a table in a chosen restaurant in town.     

• Breakfast included, Lunch & Dinner on your own     
• Accommodation: Victoria Hotel in Sapa     

Day 2 : Ta Phin Commune – Silver Waterfall – Tram Ton Pass     

Today morning, you will visit Ta Phin commune. Located in a large valley, surrounded by high mountains, which covered by pine trees and forest, Ta Phin Commune is home to the Red Zao and Black H’mong ethnic. Although living close to each other for years, these two ethnic peoples are very different: The H’mong are cheerful and open minded while the Red Zao are economical and reserved…

Your guide and driver will pick you up at the hotel for a transfer to the center of the valley and from here take an easy walk following village path around the valley, passing by and paying visit to Black Hemming houses scattering on mountain slopes. From high elevation, great view of the valley stretching under your feet. Continue your walk to the Red Zao village in which you will meet groups of women making handicrafts includes embroidered clothes, handbags… Drive back to your hotel and enjoy noon break.

Meet your guide and driver again for a leisure trip. The drive uphill offers most spectacular scenery of Fansipan Mount. Just a kilometer out of the town, rose flower farms and later chayote grows on bamboo frames covered a vast area. We’ll stop at the magnificent Silver Waterfall before reaching to the top of the highest mountain pass in Vietnam. The wind blows stronger to force the clouds moving constantly. It is the best point here to enjoy breathtaking scenery of the two side of Fansipan Mountain Range. Amazingly that the weather is very different by the side: In many days It is foggy and cloudy on Sa Pa side and sunny brightly the other side.

The rest time in the afternoon and evening is set free at your leisure.     

• Breakfast and Lunch included, Dinner on your own     
• Accommodation: Victoria Hotel in Sapa     

Day 3 : Visit Muong Hoa Valley – Night train to Hanoi     

Today you will spend the whole day exploring the spectacular Muong Hoa lying on the south of Sapa Town. Your car will take you along the only road built on the side of a mountain range, looking down the valley, over viewing magnificent landscapes composed of high mountains, deep valleys, and stream of water winding, waterfalls and terraced rice paddies…Many time, leaving the main road, you will enjoy short walk to tribal villages such as Y Linh Ho, Lao Chai, Ta Van… meeting locals at home and at works.

Leaving Ta Van in afternoon, your car takes you back to Sapa, freshen up and then transfer down hill to Lao Cai station for taking the Chapa overnight train to Hanoi which arrives in Hanoi early at 05.30 to 06.00 next morning.     

• Breakfast and Lunch included, Dinner on your own     
• Overnight Chapa Express train with soft sleeper in 4-berth AC cabin.

Tour price includes     

• Transfer with private car as indicated in day by day itinerary.
• Return train ticket Hanoi – Lao Cai – Hanoi (Chapa Express train with soft sleeper in 4-berth AC cabin)
• Accommodation: 2 nights in Superior room, Victoria Sapa Hotel.
• All meals as listed in day by day itinerary.
• Visiting fee, tax and service charge.
• Local English speaking tour guide.

Tour price excludes     

• Meals not indicated in day by day itinerary.
• Drinks and personal expenses.