Vietnam’s Miraculous Land Tour 3 days 4 nights

The highest mountain range of Vietnam, Hoang Lien Son divides the Northwest Vietnam into two very different climate region which leads to a big different in plantation and landscapes. During three days of this trip you will explore both the two sides of this mountain range for its beauty of nature as well as observing daily life of different ethnic minority peoples for your discovery of their interesting culture and way of life.

Day 1 : Visiting Sapa market - You will see a lot of local farming products and spices for sale.

5.00 am: Arrive in Lao Cai and have breakfast at a local restaurant. 7.00 a.m: Transfer by shuttle bus to Sapa, which gives yours eyes a massage with the endless blue sky and colorful terraced paddy field. The road is curved around the mountain and you will just go from one surprised to another. The further you go, the closer you are to the sky and to nature. On the way, stop to visit Ta Phin village, coming to Ta Phin, you will immediately catch sight of groups of Red Dao’s women gathering together, keeping inside their hands colorful reels of thread and cloths. They sew continuously, even when offering the goods to the customers. Amazingly, most of them can speak quite well, some use Vietnamese less than English. Since 1998, Ta Phin has officially become the “brocade village”, where tourists can find the distinctively hand-made brocades made by ethnic people. All of the products are eye-catching with numerous bright colors and patterns, ranging from bag, scarf, purse, to skirt, and even backpack and coat. Ta Phin is also the main supply of brocades for shops in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, and the products are exported to foreign countries as well. Through times, Ta Phin Village, however, still can remain its special traditions. If you are lucky enough, you can have a chance to participate in a Red Dao’s wedding, seeing how carefully they prepare and many complicated customs for this occasion. There are also several local festivals such as “dancing festival”, “greeting for the new house”, “oath-taking ceremony” that will help you understand more about the simple but happy and amiable life of ethnic people. 11.30: Take the bus to Sa Pa, arrive hotel, check in and enjoy lunch at your hotel.

In the afternoon:

3.00 p.m: Take a walking tour of Sapa for a visit to the busy market where Red Dao, Black & Flower H’Mong, Tay and other ethnic minority people converge from the surrounding countryside to sell their silverware and handicrafts, vegetable, bamboo shoot, mushroom, medicinal herbs and souvenirs…

Day 2: Visit Chu Va - a Red H’mong village

9.00 a.m: Leaving the Hotel after Breakfast for a drive uphill the mountain pass, magnificent landscapes of the high mountains one sitting on others and covered by thick forest of Hoang Lien Son nature reserve stretches along the other side of a lush valley. After a short stop at the Silver Waterfall, 14km from Sapa, you will continue driving uphill to the top of the pass. At over 1,800m above sea level, this is the highest road point in Vietnam and from here spectacular scenery of the west side opens wide in your sight. After along break for enjoying the immense of nature and landscapes, you will get downhill while the scenery changes after every bend. Getting to the foot of the mountain, you will pay visiting to Chu Va, a Red H’mong village and then continue to Binh Lu, a small town at the center of the valley where you will spend about half an hour in the market where local ethnic peoples such as Red H’mong, Black Zao, Lu often come to sell their farming products and other gatherings such as firewood, bamboo shoot, mushroom… After Lunch in a local restaurant, we shall leave the main road for driving through lush farm land of the Binh Lu valley, paying visit to Pa Pen village of the Lu and Na Hum village of the Thai. Peoples from these two ethnic groups live in large villages including hundreds of houses built on stilts and maintain their strong traditional way of living. Especially the Lu peoples still dye their teeth black, they know how to plough and harrow the fields, dig canals for irrigation, sow rice seeds and transplant rice, but do not weed and apply fertilizers. 3.00 p.m: Taking the same way back in the afternoon, you may wish to have several photo stops along the way and arriving back to Sapa before it gets dark. 7.00 p.m: Have dinner and overnight in Sa Pa.

Day 3: Visit tribal villages in Muong Hoa Valley

Hoa stream flows along the Muong Hoa valley, extends throughout the Lao Chai, Ta Van, Hau Thao… It is a place, along through the mountains is a strange carved stones. It is a long valley lying between the Den Thang and Hoang Lien ranges of mountain on the south of Sapa town which is famous for its stunning landscapes and is home to the majority population of Sapa’s ethnic minority peoples including the Black H’mong, Zay, Red Zao. 

9.00 a.m: Leaving the Hotel after Breakfast, the road ride will take you southwards of Sapa along the only narrow road to Muong Hoa valley. Spectacular scenery of the highest part of Hoang Lien Range including Fansipan peak can be seen in the first 7km of the road trip with many photo stops. 10.00 a.m: Then the valley suddenly opens wide as you reach to Lao Chai. From high elevation of the road you can see the whole valley, the Muong Hoa River winds its way through the valley bottom and small villages and hamlets of the H’mong and Zay peoples scattering on the other side of the river, even very high on hills slopes. Leaving the main road, you will take a walk following the foot path downhill and then crossing the river to the other side to pay visiting to Lao Chai village of the H’mong and Ta Van of the Zay during which you will drop in several local homes for experiencing their hospitability as well as observing the traditional living way. 1.00 p.m: After Lunch at a beautiful village lodge, you will walk down to the river, swimming if you like and then take the road ride few kilometers further for the scenery of the waterfall before driving back to Sapa in the middle afternoon. Taking a shower then transfer downhill to Lao Cai for taking the overnight train to Hanoi which arrives early next morning to end the trip.

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