Summary:
Try yourself like an ethnic people , stay with them, wake up in the natural sound and breath the fresh air , just relax and enjoy your stunning view in the mountainous highland
Details:
Day 1: Sapa/Lao Chai/Ta Van/Thanh Phu Village Homestay:
After breakfast at your hotel, a short hide down from Sapa to the Black H’mong village in Lao Chai where excellent panoramas of the larger valley, paddy terraced fields and the H’mong village are offered. We take a small local path leading into the bottom of the valley, to a local family, a perfect spot to take a rest and have lunch. After lunch you will visit the Dzay people of Ta Van, which lies in the middle of the Muong Hoa valley. You’ll then continue your hiking to Thanh Phu village where you’ll have dinner and spend the night in a Tay ethnic minority group stilt-house.
Day 2: Thanh Phu/Nam Toong/Ban Ho/Sapa/Lao Cai
After breakfast, keep leaving Thanh Phu, you follow the trekking route built in the bottom of the valley, which offers the best view to the surrounding mountains. You continue toward village of Xa Pho tribe, the smallest ethnic group in Sapa who have very little contact with modern Vietnam and they can speak very little Vietnamese. The route will continue taking you through the rice fields to the Red Dao village of Nam Toong. You will be attracted by the wonderful hospitable atmosphere of the Red Dao, stop at a nice spot for lunch, the trip takes you into a fabulously mountainous area, the most remote part of Sapa. Then you will have an opportunity to enjoy great views of an ever green valley lying along the west bank of the Red River. The rest of the afternoon is set for freshen up, relax and dinner before boarding the night train to Hanoi.