Muong Hum Market and Sapa Tribal Villages Explore tour

Muong Hum Market and Sapa Tribal Villages Explore tour, attending tribal Sunday Market in Muong Hum for encountering the most variety of tribal peoples in their colorful traditional dresses, enjoying fresh smell from exotic herbs and spices,.. walking along the trails winding up and down hills in spectacular Ta Phin and Muong Hoa Valleys, paying visit to Red Zao, Black H'mong or Zay villages and homes... They are all unforgettable experiences included in this trip.

Get started: (Saturday) Hanoi - Laocai

• 20: 00 pm - Pick up at your hotel and transfer to Hanoi railway station to board the express train to Laocai. Overnight in an air-conditioned soft sleeper cabin.

Day 1: (Sunday) Laocai - MuongHum Market - Sapa Town (B/L/D)

• At 6.00 am, Arrive at Laocai Train station. Pick up at Laocai Train Station to transfer to Muong Hum market. It takes almost 2 hours to get to MuongHum - a small & traditional market situated among ethnic villages. The market deeply shows the typical cultural features of Vietnam's remote areas. Leave the market and transfer to Sapa. On the way, spend time visiting silver water, visiting a village of the Black H'mong and then reach Sapa and check in hotel.


• Overnight in Sapa.

Day 2: Sapa - Laochai - TaVan Village - 3 villages (B/L/D)

• Breakfast at the hotel. Depart Sapa for the trekking at 10:00 AM. Take the main road by jeep and go down hill to the valley. Cross MuongHoa River to get to the other mountainside for 3 villages with rice terraces: Y Linh Ho, Laochai, and Tavan. Stay the night at a local family in Tavan village and in night time enjoy culture performance show with Zay Ethnic people.


• Overnight at Home stay HOUSE

Day 3: TaVan village - Giang Ta Chai Village - Sapa - Night train to Hanoi, 5 hours trekking 2 villages (B/L/D)

• Get up in the morning to enjoy the daily life of the ethnic minorities in the village. Breakfast, take the road to GiangTa Chai village of the Red Dzao minority via the paths between terraces and through bamboo forests. Visit silver waterfall and suspension Rattan Bridge, visit the people in the village and then cross MuongHoa River up to the mountain to visit the last village of the trek - Supan village of the H'mong. Get back to Sapa by jeep. On the way back, enjoy visiting the ancient stone circle where stones are decorated with ancient carvings. Reach Sapa. Then transfer to Lao Cai station for taking the night train to Hanoi.


• Overnight in an air-conditioned soft sleeper cabin.


• End of your Muong Hum Market and Sapa Tribal Villages Explore tour.

Include:

• Train tickets King Express/Livitrans train Hanoi- Lao Cai- Hanoi, soft sleeper, wooden cabin with A/C.


• All meals as mentioned in the tour program ( B= Breakfast, L= Lunch, D= Dinner)


• All entrance fees


• Hotel pick up and transfer as tour program


• English speaking tour guide/ French Guide


• Accommodation (1 night at three stars hotel: Paradise Sapa hotel, Bamboo Sapa hotel, Royal View hotel... 1 night at homestay)

Exclude:

• Travel Insurance


• Drinks & other meals not mentioned in the program


• Single supplement


• Personal expense

Note:

• Departure: Every Saturday evening from Hanoi

Sapa Explorer and Remote Cao Son Market Tour

Get started: (Monday) Hanoi - Laocai

• 20: 00 pm - Pick up at your hotel and transfer to Hanoi railway station to board the express train to Laocai. Overnight in an air-conditioned soft sleeper cabin.

Day 1 (Tuesday) Lao Cai - Cao Son  Market (B/L/D)

• Upon arrival to Lao Cai station early morning, you will meet your local tour guide and driver and enjoy breakfast in a restaurant nearby. Freshen up and heading along the road to Muong Khuong district which weaves its way up and down hills of the tea plantation and pine trees. It gets wilder and greener with thick forest and small tribal villages scattering isolated on slopes of the mountains as you get close to Cao Son Commune. You will enjoy much of the scenery which is marvelous and changes very fast after every bend. Arriving in Cao Son almost at noon, checking in the Lodge where you will stay overnight, take a rest or wandering around breathing fresh air.


• Afternoon is for walking to explore tribal villages nearby for a discovery of tribal culture, custom and self subsidiary way of life of different ethnic minorities. Overnight at Cao Son Eco Lodge.

Day 2 (Wednesday) Cao Son Market -Sapa (B/L/D)

• Today is the market day in Cao Son and you will spend the whole morning to take part in this weekly event. The village seems to wake up after a week staying peacefully. People from different tribal groups such as H'mong, Zao, Nung, Pa Di, Tu Di...wearing their traditional costumes converge to the market place on foot, motorcycles and horses. Many comes from remote villages, near the border and have to start their journey even from midnight. Joining the market, you will soon get the feeling of local, cheerful faces every where. Commodities for sale at the market is rich, from home produces such as fruit, vegetable, chili, ginger, smelled medicinal herbs, mushroom, bamboo shoot, corn wine, local handicraft, animals includes pigs, chicken, dogs, cats... to farming tools as hoes, plough shares, spades, knives...


• You are leaving the market and Cao Son after Lunch for a drive to Lao Cai and then uphill to Sapa through a scenic region. Arriving in Sapa at your hotel in the afternoon and the rest of the day is set free for you to wander around charming Sapa town. Overnight in Sapa.

Day 3 (Thursday) Sapa Tribal Village walk to Ma Tra & Ta Phin (B/L/D)

• Lying on the south of Sa Pa town, this vast valley composes of 3 chambers surrounded by high mountains with thick forest at the top and terraced rice paddies from lower slopes stretching to the bottom. It is home to the Black H'mong and the Red Zao ethnic minority who live in wooden houses scattering here and there.


• Starting from Sa Pa with your guide, you will follow a trail running through fruit and orchard gardens, lush pine forests to a Black Hmong ethnic minority village named Matra, isolated away from the civilization. Chickens, water buffalos, pot - belly pigs and piggy everywhere, some locals will be happy to invite us to their home which offers chances to see their dwellings, weavings on belly looms to makes traditional costumes out of hemp fiber...Our path weaves itself up and down hills, through valleys with terraced rice fields which create spectacular landscapes. After picnic Lunch, we get to Ta Phin Commune where the Black H'mong and the Red Zao live together. It is very interesting to realize culture assimilation: Which can be mixed, which can not! At the end of the footpath, our Jeep is waiting for us for the return journey to Sapa.


• Overnight in Sapa.

Day 4 (Friday) Visit Lao Chai & Ta Van Village (B/L)

• Today morning, you will explore the spectacular Muong Hoa. A Jeep will take us out of the town, following 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...walking trail can be seen clearly from the road winding up and down hills on the other side of Muong Hoa River to connect village to villages...


• Our suggested walk starts from Lao Chai village of the H'mong along the river to Ta Van, the Zay village. Our Jeep will pick us up at Ta Van Bridge and drive back to Sa Pa at noon.


• Afternoon is at your leisure for wandering Sa Pa town and market until late afternoon transfer to Lao Cai station for taking the night train to Hanoi.


• Overnight in an air-conditioned soft sleeper cabin.


• End of  your Sapa Explorer and Remote Cao Son Market Tour

Include:

• Train tickets King Express/Livitrans train Hanoi- Lao Cai- Hanoi, soft sleeper, wooden cabin with A/C.


• All meals as mentioned in the tour program ( B= Breakfast, L= Lunch, D= Dinner)


• All entrance fees


• Hotel pick up and transfer as tour program


• English speaking tour guide/ French Guide


• Accommodation (1Night in Cao son Lodge, 2 nights at three stars hotel: Paradise Sapa hotel, Bamboo Sapa hotel, Royal View hotel...)

Exclude:

• Travel Insurance


• Drinks & other meals not mentioned in the program


• Single supplement


• Personal expense

Note:

• Departure: Every Monday evening from Hanoi

Northern Vietnam Highlight tour 7 days

Northern Vietnam Highlight tour 7 days. The trip starts from Ha Noi, explore the Old Quarter, traveling on night sleeping berth train to Sapa. Visit Bac Ha market which takes place every Sunday is famous for the originality and authenticity that the traders still preserve.  Trekking downhill to Y Linh Ho and Muong Hoa Valley through rice paddies and small hamlets to learn the life of hill tribes here. End your trip on Ha Long Bay.

Itinerary:

Day 1 : Ha Noi city & arrival 

Arrive at Noi Bai airport. Welcome by your local guide and driver. Transfer to your hotel.  Overnight at your proposed hotel in Ha Noi

Day 2: Ha Noi city tour  - Lao Cai (B/L/_)

Breakfast at the hotel. At 8.30am, pick up at your hotel for visit the Ho Chi Minh Complex, containing the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, the Presidential Palace, Ho Chi Minh's house on stilts and the One Pillar Pagoda , Continue to the Temple of Literature, Vietnam's first university. You will also visit the famous prison that American POWs sarcastically dubbed the “Hanoi Hilton” during the Vietnam War. Take a relaxing walk along Thanh Nien street next to the famous West Lake. Visit Dong Xuan market and enjoy traditional food Cha Ca La Vong a Ha Noi specialty. Riding on a rickshaw  around 36 streets in the Old Quarter. You will have many chance to see local product handmade as well as doing shopping. Enjoy water puppet show in the late afternoon. Transfer to the train station for boarding the express train to Lao Cai (21:50 - 06:30). Overnight in an air-conditioned soft sleeper cabin.

Day 3: Lao Cai – Bac Ha market – Sapa ( B/ L/ _) Sunday

Meeting your local tour guide and driver upon arrival. Drive to BacHa market. The beginning of the day on which you visit a big market filled with many different hill-tribe peoples. This is the most colourful market in North Vietnam. At the market, you have chance to enjoy BacHa people's simple but unique kinds of food with special wines made from rice, cassavas, corn and different sorts of fruits such as plumps, apples, peaches... talking to the minorities through the guide's interpretation. Leave the market for the H'mong King's house (King Hoang A Tuong) built by the French colonists and the Chinese in 1920. Return the town for lunch. In the afternoon, spend time visiting BanPho village. Say good bye to BacHa and get back to Sapa. On the way back, drop in to see the Vietnamese and Chinese Harbour Mouth in LaoCai. Reach Sapa late in the afternoon. Dinner on guest’s account. Overnight at your proposed hotel in Sapa

Day 4: Sapa - Lao Chai - Ta Van – Lao Cai ( B / L / _ )

Breakfast at the hotel. At 8.00am, start trekking downhill to Y Linh Ho and 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 then continuing walking through villages and rice terraced fields to Ta Van village settled by Dzay ethnic. Have picnic lunch on the way then keep going to the bottom of Sapa valley which is supposed to be the most beautiful one in the area.

At 18.30, transfer to Lao Cai for the night train to Ha Noi (20.45– 05.45). Overnight in an air-conditioned soft sleeper cabin.

Day 5 : return Ha Noi – Ha Long ( B / L / D )

Arrive to the train station, pick up and transfer to a mini hotel for taking a rest hand having breakfast until 8.00am, leave for Ha Long Bay through the Red River Delta. Arrive at Paloma office, Halong City. Tranfer by tender to the Paloma Cruise – enjoy welcome drink. Receive cruise briefing and check in to cabins and begin cruise. Lunch – delicious Vietnamese set menu ( Massage service is available beginning after lunch  and thoughout the cruise. Heads to Bai Tu Long Bay passing the towns of Hon Gai and Cam Pha, Oan Lagoon, Mat Quy (Monster Head) and Am Tich (Teapot) Islets and Vung Vieng fishing village. Visit the fishing village by local rowing boat (01 hour) then return to the vessel for free time at your leisure or join one of the following optional activities:

Kayak into the village or swim near the boat;

Optional onboard activities: Sunbathing, traditional massage, etc;

Trip by tender to an isolated pristine beach for swimming, etc.

Paloma cruises through the Bay to its overnight anchorage near Hang Trong.

Happy Hour (sunset party)& Vietnamese cooking demonstration on the boat

Sumptuous Seafood Set-dinner onboard.

Retire to your cabin or join the squid fishing, watching movie, game. Overnight aboard Paloma Cruise.

Day 6 : Ha long – Ha Noi ( B / L/D)

Start your day with Tai Chi on the Sundeck while complimentary tea & coffee are served.

Paloma weighs anchor to cruise through the Bay passing beautiful spots like Trong (Drum), Trinh Nu (Virgin) and Me Cung Caves, Coc Ngoi (Toad) Islet, etc

Explore the Surprise Cave (Sung Sot)

Return to Paloma cruise

Check out the cabin.Western menu is served onboard. The vessel cruises leisurely back to harbor.

Disembark at Paloma office, Halong City. Tea & coffee will be served.

At 16.00. Return to Ha Noi. Dinner on guest’s account. Overnight at your proposed hotel in Ha Noi.

Day 7: Ha Noi & departure (B)

Breakfast at the hotel. Free until transfer to the airport. End service.

 

Hotel grade	Cost in US$ per person
	1 pax	2 pax	3 – 4 pax	5 – 8 pax	9 – 11pax	Single supplement
Two stars	712	534	486	444	426	129
Three stars	732	554	506	464	446	149
Four stars	777	599	550	509	490	194

 

Tour price includes: 

Private car for pick up, transfer & sightseeing as per program

Express train ticket Ha Noi – Lao Cai – Ha Noi (4 pax /cabin)

Shuttle bus transfer Ha Noi- Ha Long – Ha Noi

Share cruise in Ha Long Bay

Kayaking paddles

Cold mineral water on car (2 bottles/ pax/ day)

English speaking tour guide

All entrance fees

Water puppet show, rickshaw

Hotel accommodation based on two people share a double/ twin room

Meals as indicated in the tour program (B = Breakfast; L = Lunch; D = Dinner)

 

Tour price excludes:

International flight to/from Vietnam

International airport tax

Vietnamese entry visa

Travel insurance

Drinks & other meals not mentioned in the program

Personal expenses.

Vietnam train tour begins from Ha Noi capital

Day 1 : Ha Noi – Ninh Binh  - Tam Coc – Bai Dinh pagoda (L)

• Morning, our driver pick you up at your hotel and transfer to the railway station for boarding the day train SE7 to Ninh Binh (06.15am – 08.29am). You have chances to view the landscapes along the railway sides in early morning. Arrive to the train station. Meeting your tour guide and driver. Start your sightseeing for a visit and offered incense at Bai Dinh pagoda. This is a complex of temples known for many Vietnam record are established as the largest temple area, the largest bronze Buddha statue, the temple has many statues and most Arhat most Bodhi.


• Proceed to Tam Coc, we take sampans to visit Tam Coc, which is literally known “ Three Caves” First Cave is the longest one which is considered a real rainbow in the water in the morning time stretching on both sides of the Ngo Dong River. The quiet movements of the oars create a sort of musical rhythm inside the cave. As the boat leaves the cave, you can see what seems to be an old man with a white breard fishing, fairy flying in the clouds, peasants collecting fuel and a group of white goats grazing on the hills. Then we move to the Second Cave and the Third Cave.


• Transfer to your hotel.


• Dinner on guest’s account.


• Overnight at your proposed hotel in Ninh Binh.

 Day 2: Trang An – Dong Hoi (B/_/_)

• Following breakfast at your hotel. Meeting your tour guide at 7.00am at your hotel for visit Trang An. Trang An is an area of ​​our country, clouds swirled. The bottom blue water reflecting the cliffs on route. It has 31 lakes, lagoons unconnected by 48 caves have been discovered in caves through which water 2km long as Dia Linh cave, Sinh Duoc cave,  May cave... Transfer to the train station for boarding the day train SE 5 to Dong Hoi (11.17am – 19.10pm).


• Pick up and transfer to your hotel.


• Lunch & Dinner on guest’s account.


• Overnight at your proposed hotel in Dong Hoi.

Day 3: Dong Hoi – Phong Nha caves – Paradise caves – Hue city (B/L/_)

• At 7.30am, Meeting our tour guide and drive at your hotel. Proceed to Phong Nha cave, you will take a boat along Son River pass through river and forest to Phong Nha Caves and enjoy the wonderful sights of this cave. You will stop to visit Cung Dinh cave, Tien Cave and Bi Ky Cave with beautiful limestone formations.


• Then driven to Paradise cave which is about 30 minutes driving from Phong Nha caves. you will have a chance to see Paradise Cave which is a dry cave and appreciated the most stunning cave in Phong Nha Caves System because of its size and unique making a deep impression for the visitors. After going 2000 meters on transferring by golf car through the old forest with many kinds of valuable and rare of plants you will have an opportunity to discover the Cave with its great structure and the stalactites and stalagmites inside. All these are the creations of nature, only the 1100 meters wooden pathway through the cave was man - made. You will leave more 2 hours to explore the cave. Proceed to Hue city by car. Arrival to the city around 6.00pm.


• Dinner on guest’s account.


• Overnight at your proposed hotel in Hue.

Day 4: Hue city (B/L/_)

• Have breakfast at the hotel. At 8.00am, our guide and driver pick up you at your hotel and then take a full day to discover Hue: visit Emperor Minh Mang's Mausoleum, Emperor Khai Dinh's Mausoleum, Performing Programs of VO KINH VAN AN - Vietnam Traditional Kungfu and Emperor Tu Duc’s Mausoleums. Stop on the way to see how conical hats and incense sticks are made.


• Lunch at a local restaurant.


• In the afternoon, visit Imperial capital during Nguyen Dynasty and the seven – storey Thien Mu Pagoda on the riverbank. Return by boat on the gentle Perfume River and do not miss the sunset on the river.


• You will come back your hotel.


• Dinner on guest’s account.


• Overnight at your proposed hotel in Hue.

 Day 5: Hue & departure (B)

• Having breakfast at your hotel. Free until transfer to the train station or the airport for your next destination.


• See you next Vietnam train tour

Include:

• Private car/van/minibus for pick up, transfer & sightseeing as per program


• Train ticket:  Ha Noi – Ninh Binh (soft seat)


• Train ticket: Ninh Binh – Dong Hoi (soft berth)


• Cold mineral water and cool tissue on car


• English speaking tour guide


• Private sampan in Tam Coc, Trang An, Phong Nha cave


• Private boat trips in Hue


• All entrance fees


• Meals as indicated in the tour program (B = Breakfast; L = Lunch; D = Dinner)


• Hotel accommodation based on two people share a double/ twin room.

Exclude:

• International flight to/from Vietnam


• International airport tax


• Vietnamese entry visa


• Early check in and late checkout at these hotels


• Travel insurance


• Drinks & other meals not mentioned in the program


• Personal expense.

Note:

• Tailor Vietnam train tour begins from Ha Noi capital is available on request