Sapa Trekking – Coc Ly Market Package Tour 2 Days / 3 Nights

20: 00 pm - Pick up at your hotel in Hanoi and transfer to Hanoi railway station for boarding the Express Train to Laocai. Overnight in an air-conditioned soft sleeper wooden cabin. (4 pax/cabin or 2 pax/cabin on Request).

Overnight in the train, 4 soft berth cabin, AC.

Arrive in Lao Cai around 5.30 am.

We will take 1hr bus riding uphill to the beautiful town of Sapa. The ride gives you a glimpse of the stunning vistas and impressive rice terraces along the road.

Arrive Sapa town, have breakfast at the local restaurant & freshen up for a while.

Locating just about 5km southeast of Sapa town, Ma Tra valley attracts visitors for its stunning scenery highlighted with impressive terraced rice fields. The Hmong peoples has changed from sifting lifestyle into sedentary one form early 20th Century and built terraced field to ensure their permanent earning by farming wet rice.

Trip starts from Sapa at 08.30am or 01.30pm by a 5km road transfer out of Sapa town. Then walk starts from here downhill and cross the stream to the other bank where Suoi Ho village beautifully sits on the top of a low hill. Spend half an hour to visit several local homes for understanding of local life before continue walking along a large path on hillsides which is paved with rock to get through Ma Tra village. This portion of the walk offers beautiful scenery of the valley and terraced paddies as well as flower farm. Walk through for 2 hours through several hamlets of the Hmong scattering on hill-sides.

Keep trekking downhill 1 hour to Ta Phin village which is home to Red Dzao people. Then picked up and transfer by road 12km back to Sapa.

Dinner and overnight in Sapa.

After breakfast at your hotel you leave at 6:30 for Coc Ly Market, which is about 2 hour driving from Sapa.

Enjoy watching 6 different minority peoples (Flower H'mong, Black Dzao, Tay, Dzay, Ha Nhi and Nung) in their colorful costumes, gathering to buy and sell their home made products in the festive market.. This is the weekly chance for the minorities to meet and share joy and sorrows after the crops, to exchange one another's experience.

Say goodbye to the market and get down onto a boat along Chay river. Treat yourself with moments of finding yourselves smaller in front of magnificent landscapes of Chay river and lofty mountain ranges en route or being surprised at the silver white and breathtaking waterfalls. Visitors also have chance to visit the Fairy Cave located deeply in the rocks.

Get off the boat to visit a village of the Tay Minority (Trung Do village) by the river. After the boat trip, visit a small town - Bao Nhai and then take jeep back to Lao Cai Station.

Have fresh shower & dinner at Lao Cai Station before boarding the night train back to Hanoi.

Arrive in Hanoi around 5 Am next morning. Tour ends at Hanoi Railway Station.

Overnight in the train, 4 soft berth cabin, AC.