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Hill Tribe Villages Northwest Vietnam Adventure

Expedition – 11 Days/ 10 Nights

Duration: 11 Days/ 10 Nights

Depart From: Hanoi

Destinations: Hanoi - Lao Cai - Sapa –Trinh Tuong - Lung Po - Y Ty – Bat Xat - Den

Sang - Nhiu Co San – Sapa – Lung Khau Nhin Market – Muong Khuong - Cao Son

Market – Coc Ly Market – Simacai market - Hanoi.

Description: The 11 days Hill Tribe Villages Northwest Vietnam Adventure

Expedition trip covers a wide range of Vietnam hill tribe villages in Northeast

Vietnam, with visiting the Ha Nhi minority villages, Black Hmong minority villages,

Black Lolo minority villages, Red Dao minority village, Tay and Nung minority

villages. You also chance to visit many colorful ethnic minority markets, home-stay

experience and immerse yourself into different culture and customs. This trip is

specially designed for the ones who love adventure, deeply in love with ethnic

minority village’s expedition and photography.




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Brief Itinerary

Tour Dates Destinations Meals Included

Day 1 Hanoi – Lao Cai D

Day 2 Lao Cai - Sapa B, L, D

Day 3 Ta Van – Giang Ta Chai – Su Pan – Sapa B, L, D

Day 4 Sapa - Muong Hum - Trinh Tuong – Lung Po –

Y Ty

B, L, D

Day 5 Y Ty - Ngai Thau - Den Sang - Nhiu Co San B, L, D

Day 6 Windy Pass – Sang Ma Sao B, L, D

Day 7 Y Ty – Muong Hum – Sapa B, L

Day 8 Sapa – Lung Khau Nhin Market – Muong

Khuong

B, L, D

Day 9 Muong Khuong – Cao Son Market – Coc Ly

market

B, L, D

Day 10 Simacai market – Lao Cai - Night train to

Hanoi

B, L, D

Day 11 Hanoi – Arrival. B

Detailed Itinerary

Day 1: Hanoi – Lao Cai

In the evening, meet up our guide and driver, transfer to Hanoi railway station to

take a night train to Lao Cai. Overnight on train.

Accommodation: Sapaly Train




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Day 2: Lao Cai - Sapa (B/L/D)

Upon arrival Lao Cai railway station, you will be met our tour guide and driver,

then transferred to Sapa Town. Have breakfast before the trip starts. Drive to Y Linh

Ho village and start trekking downhill to Muong Hoa Valley through rice paddies

and small hamlets to learn the life of hill tribes here. Communication exchange with

local people in Lao Chai village. Cook & have lunch at local family. After lunch, you

will continue trekking through villages and rice terraced fields to Ta Van village

settled by Dzay ethnic which is supposed to be the most beautiful village in the area.

Have dinner and overnight at a local family in Ta Van – homestay of the Dzay

people village.

Accommodation: H’mong home-stay

Day 3: Ta Van – Giang Ta Chai – Su Pan – Sapa ( B/L/D)

Leave the family, we continue trekking tour to the Red Dao people at Giang Ta Chai

village where we also see a lovely waterfall. The Red Dao women have very

colourful red embroideries and coins on their clothing, on their head they wear a red

scarf. Some of the women have shaved off their eyebrows because of a nice Red Zao

legend. We continue along small paths in the rice fields, cross the Muong Hoa River,

Suspending Bridge and walk up to Supan village where you will meet the transfer

back to Sapa. Have lunch at the local restaurant. Free for leisure - shopping and visit

Sapa town, Sapa market in the afternoon. Overnight in Sapa.

Accommodation: Sapa View Hotel

Room Type: Superior Room




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Day 4: Sapa - Muong Hum - Trinh Tuong – Lung Po – Y Ty (B/L/D)

After breakfast, our driver and guide will take you from Sapa to the O Qui Ho Pass

to start our adventure tour by trekking down to Y Ty Village. After a long trek, we

will stop for a break and taste the local dishes in Mong Xoa before our car take us to

Trinh Tuong village(35km) which is home to the famous houses with rammed earth

walls drawing the eyes of many photographers. There, we will have chance to

communicate with the friendly locals, deeply understand the life of the highlanders

as well as how they build their rammed-earth houses.

We will then continue driving along the border with China to reach Lung Po (22km)

where the Red River start its flow into Vietnam land and meet a blue water spring.

It’s no doubt that the scenery here is so adorable and poetic. After a short break here

to relax and enjoy peaceful moments with bird songs surrounding, our journey will

be continued to Y Ty valley by car to reach a vantage point for cloud watchers. This

trekking day will end in Y Ty, we will stay in a local home-stay and enjoy the dinner

with local foods.

Accommodation: Home-stay

Day 5: Y Ty - Ngai Thau - Den Sang - Nhiu Co San (B/L/D)

After a deep sleep at the home-stay and an energy breakfast, we will trek through

the path hidden in the clouds of Y Ty - Ngai Thau to Den Sang, then our car will pick

we up then we depart to Sang Ma Sao Village for another 8-km trekking along the

rough rocky routes to Nhiu Co San Village.




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After enjoying a local lunch, we will trek and discover the ancient stone path hidden

in the forest. 30kmstone road from the last century riskily located along the stream

and deeply connecting into Hoang Lien jungle will surely amaze you. We’ll then

stop for camping in the forest, next to the stream in the primary forest. Dinner and

exciting camp-fire will be served and we’ll sleep overnight in camp.

Accommodation: Tent in the jungle

Day 6: Windy Pass – Sang Ma Sao (B/L/D)

On this day, we will conquer the windy pass by trekking through the ancient stone

trail, visiting the ancient tombs of the workers sacrificed in building this road at the

top of the pass. We will then return back to the start trekking point and be picked-up

by driver to go back to Y Ty to have a late dinner.

Accommodation: Home-stay

Day 7: Y Ty – Muong Hum – Sapa (B/L/-)

This day will bring you back to Sapa town. On the way, you’ll have a chance to join

in Muong Hum Scarborough fair before passing the rough way through the heaven

gate to turn back to Sapa and end this adventure tour of conquering the Nhiu Co San

peak. Overnight in Sapa.

Accommodation: Sapa View Hotel

Room Type: Superior Room

Day 8: Sapa – Lung Khau Nhin Market – Muong Khuong (B/L/D)




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After breakfast, we will drive to Lung Khau Nhin (110 km / 1h 45m from Sapa, or 65

km / 1 hour from Lao Cai).

Lung Khau is a small market very close to the border with China, close to Muong

Khuong town. The Black Dao, Dzay, Tay, Flower H'mong (Red H'mong) minority

peoples all attends this market.

Lung Khau Nhin market is held every Thursday starting around 7.30am and closing

in the early afternoon. The market is set in beautiful scenery and is very remote. It is

a very ‘authentic’ market with few tourists visiting. The market mainly sells

vegetables, seeds and livestock for the minority peoples.

A typical itinerary for a day at Lung Khau Nhin Market would be:

Spend time walking around the market taking in the sights and sounds and perhaps

trading with the local people.

Our lunch will be served at Muong Khuong town.

On the way back we will stop in Muong Khung and pay a visit to pineapple and tea

plantations.

In the afternoon, we will strolling around the Muong Khuong, visit some hill tribe

villages and have free time to taking photos and enjoy fresh air at this remote area.

Overnight in Muong Khuong.

Day 9: Muong Khuong – Cao Son Market – Coc Ly market (B/L/D)

Enjoy breakfast at Muong Khuong, we will drive toward to visit Cao Son Market.

Cao Son Market is a small/medium sized market held every Wednesday. Set among

beautiful rolling mountains this is a colorful market full of local products and

handicrafts. Here you will find Flower H’mong, Black Zao, Nung, Tu Di, Pa Di

ethnic form villages in the surrounding region but many come from China to add

more colors to the market. Cheerful and smiling faces are everywhere at the market

place and the peoples behaved like close friends meeting again after long time away.

It is easy to realize women from different groups through traditional costumes they

wear while men’s dresses are similar.

As with most markets, it starts early. So an early start is again advised. A typical

itinerary for Cao Son Market would be:




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Enjoy spending time walking around the market taking in the sights and sounds (not

to mention tastes) and perhaps engage in some business with the local people.

After visiting Cao Son market, we will drive to Coc Ly market.

We visit the market with all colorful ethnic people such as Flower Hmong, Phu La

and Dao Tuyen who gathers to buy and sell.

Before lunch we go on a short trek to the nearby village of Sa Koun Ho which is

inhabited by the Flower Hmong and Black Dao minority.

We enjoy lunch in a local restaurant before we leave Coc Ly and drive to Trung Do

village - inhabited by Tay minority. From the village we go by boat down the river,

where we experience the magnificent sight of the beautiful caves and bustling life on

the riverbank. The boat trip takes us about 2-2 1/2 hours before we are picked up by

our car. The car takes us back Cao Son Lodge for taking rest after long day trekking

boating.

Accommodation: Cao Son Lodge

Day 10: Simacai market – Lao Cai - Night train to Hanoi (B/L/D)

In the morning, after enjoying breakfast at Cao Son lodge, we will drive toward to

visit Simacai market (Sunday market).

Hiding itself in the mountains and forest at the far end of a tough road, Si Ma Cai

Market is often referred to as one of the remotest tribal market of the region and

rarely visited by tourists. Every Sunday, Simacai market attracts some thousands of

Flower H’mong, Zao, Phu La peoples from villages in the region come to shopping,

enjoying themselves meeting friends and relatives…after hard working days.

They spend most of their time at the market talking, chatting and also drinking a lot.

The market place is simply a large ground near the recently developed town let of

Simacai District with some thatched huts built to accommodate shops and food

stalls. Every Sunday, Simacai market attracts some thousands of Flower H’mong,

Zao, Phu La peoples from villages in the region come to shopping, enjoying

themselves meeting friends and relatives…after hard working days. They spend




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most of their time at the market talking, chatting and also drinking a lot.

In recent years, the charms of Si Ma Cai have been awakened and have become

attractive to travelers due to the flower-colored clothes of the Mong and Red Dao

ethnic peoples, by the greenery of mountains and hills, and by the legends.

The quiet Si Ma Cai bustles on Sunday as Mong, Dao and other ethnic peoples arrive

from different directions for a hill-tribe market. There, they buy and sell meat,

vegetables, fruit, clothes and other necessities of life as well as swap fun stories after

a week of hard work.

The Si Ma Cai market remains distinct to its origins since locals sell what they

harvest from the forest and business is just a matter for locals, no traders bring items

from Hanoi or elsewhere.

In the afternoon, we will drive back to Lao Cai train station.

Free for leisure - shopping and visit Lao Cai city.

Enjoy dinner at a local restaurant. After dinner, we will walk back to train station,

take a night train back to Hanoi.

Accommodation: Sapaly Train

Day 11: Hanoi – Arrival.

Today morning, you will arrive Hanoi at around 5:25 AM. Meet up our guide and

driver, transfer back to your hotel in Hanoi. Tour ends.

Tour Price:

Inclusions:

Private transportation with A/C

English speaking guide (Another languages upon request).

Local porters (for carrying cooking foods).

Meals mentioned as in the itinerary (Foods served with local specialty tasty dishes,

water, tea, coffee and even local wine)

Sleeping bag

First aid kit

Tent and waterproof canvas

Entrance and local permission fees

Insurance

Home stay or hotel fee




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Exclusions:

Personal wearing and accessories

Tips for porter

All services not listed above

What to bring for this trip:

Bring your hiking boots or any suitable footwear you have for walking.(and extra

light sandal suggested to cross the stream)

Light and comfortable long-sleeved T-shirt ( 1pc per day)

Socks (01 pair for each day)

01 pullover

01 warm coat

Backpackfor trekking

Hat

Long-life Flashlight

Personal knife or universal tools)

Camera (compact camera are suggested)

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