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SAPA - CAN CAU - BAC HA - COC LY MARKET
4
DAYS/5 NIGHTS
Tour type :Pivate tour
Departure date :Friday
Tour Duration :4 days / 5 nights
 Explore the most three special
markets in Northwest Vietnam.
Experience the typical cultural
features of the minorities in remote
mountainous areas in Vietnam. With
us discover
Sapa area - one of the
most wonderful places in Asia and a
magical combination of landscapes,
ethnic cultures and bracing mountain
air.
Tour Highlights:
• Bac Ha is where you'll want to
stock up on water buffalo, pigs and
horses.
• To know about handicrafts made by
some of the 10 Montagnard groups
living near here - Flower Hmong,
Dzao, Giay (Nhang), Han (Hoa), Xa
Fang, Lachi, Nung, Phula, Thai and
Thulao.
• will have a welcome feeling at any
house of the hospitable people.
• You can interact them, learn about
their culture and customs.
• Can Cau Market is a small, but
very colourful market, set in the
mountains near the Chinese border.
• The Flower Hmong minority is the
most common here, and their
colourful dresses makes is a
beautiful sight.
Tour Itinerary
Night 1 - Friday: Ha Noi - Lao Cai
Vietnam TripAdvisor’s car will pick
you up from your hotel and transfer
to Hanoi train station to catch the
overnight train soft sleeper with AC
to Lao Cai station. Overnight on the
train.
Day 1- Saturday:Lao Cai - Can Cau -
Bac Ha (B,L,D)
Vietnam TripAdvisor’s car will pick
you up at Laocai Train Station then
transfer to
Can Cau market. It takes
more than 2 hours to get to CanCau -
a small market situated in a valley
surrounded by mountains and only 7
km from China. The market deeply
shows the typical cultural features
of the minorities in remote
mountainous areas in Vietnam.
Further more, you can enjoy seeing
boys and girls in colourful costumes
- different colours of the
mountains. They attend the market in
the hope of finding "the other
halves of their lifves" and this is
also the time for them to chat, to
exchange everything among different
ethnic peoples through cups of wine
sold in the market. Say goodbye to
the market and transfer to BacHa. On
the way, spend time visiting a
village of the Flower H'mong and
then check in hotel in BacHa. Free
to explore the town. Lunch in CanCau
or in BacHa and dinner in BacHa.
Overnight at hotel in Bac Ha (2*
hotel only).
Meals:Breakfast,Lunch,Dinner.
Day 2 – Sunday : Bac Ha – Sapa
(B,L,D)
A walk to BacHa market. Visit one
village and an old building called
The H'mong king's house. Breakfast
and 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
Bac Ha 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
another village (BanPho village) Say
good bye to BacHa and get back to
Sapa. On the way back, drop in to
see the Vietnamese and Chinese
Harbor Mouth in LaoCai. Reach Sapa
late in the afternoon. Check in
hotel in Sapa.
Meals:Breakfast,Lunch,Dinner.
Day 3 - Monday: Sapa - Muong Hoa
valley (B,L,D)
Check out hotel and start a trekking
trip towards Muong Hoa valley to
visit 3 villages of the H, mong, the
Dzay people with around 14 km of
trekking. Enjoy beautiful
landscapes, terraced paddy fields.
Discover the live of the people with
different cultures. Have dinner and
spend the night at the family.
Meals:Breakfast,Lunch,Dinner.
Day 4 - Tuesday: Coc Ly market
(B,L,D)
Leave from the village early at 6:
30 AM for
Coc Ly market, which is
situated far from Sapa. Enjoy the
peaceful life of 6 different
minority peoples (Flower H'mong,
Black Dzao, Tay, Dzay, HaNhi and
Nung). The market is the 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.
You are bound to feel great and find
yourselves smaller among high rock
mountains and to be surprised at
white and breathtakingly waterfalls.
The Fairy Cave is 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 VietnamTripAdvisor’s
car will pick you back to Laocai
Station for the night
train to
Hanoi. Have dinner before getting on
the train.
Day 5 – Wednesday: Hanoi arrival.
Arrive in Hanoi early
morning.Vietnam TripAdvisor’s car
will pick you up from Hanoi train
station to your hotel. Tour ends.
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