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SAPA 2 MARKETS AND CHAY RIVER 3 DAYS/4 NIGHTS
Can Cau – Bac Ha - Trung Do - Chay
River –Lao Chai - Ta Van - Giang Ta
Chai
Departure date: Friday
Tour: Private
Introduction:
 Located
38km from Lao Cai City, Sapa is a
mountainous district of Lao Cai
Province. Sapa District is very
well-known with Sapa Townlet, a
beautiful and romantic resort.
At the height of 1,600m above sea
level, the average temperature of
the area is 15-18°C. It is cool in
summer and cold in winter.
Bac Ha Sunday Market - Some 100km
(62 miles) from Sapa, this is
probably the most famous market in
the region and more along the lines
of what Sapa was once like. Here,
various hill tribes converge every
Sunday morning to conduct commerce.
As a visitor, you're certainly part
of the trade here because folks are
keen to sell you their wares.
Tour Highlights
As some trip to Sapa,we often visit
Cat Cat village.
In this trip we have chance to visit
Can Cau market on Saturday only.
Can
Cau Market is a small, but very
colourful market, set in the
mountains near the Chinese border.
BacHa is the biggest market in Sapa
and open on Sunday only. The Sunday
market in Bac Ha is where you'll
want to stock up on water buffalo,
pigs and horses.
Detailed Ititnerary
Night 1 Friday: Hanoi - Lao Cai
Vietnam TripAdvisor’s car pick you
up at your hotel and transfer to
Hanoi train station for the night
train to Lao Cai station. Overnight
on AC Soft Sleeper Hanoi - Lao Cai
train
Meals: Breakfast, Luch, Dinner
Day 1 (Saturday): CanCau – Bac Ha
Picked up at Laocai Train Station to
transfer to CanCau 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.
Meals : Breakfast, Luch, Dinner
Day 2: (Sunday): Bac Ha - Trung Do -
Chay River –Sapa
 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
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
another village (BanPho village) Say
good bye to BacHa and get back to
Trung Do village, visit the Tay then
get on boat along Chay river. Get
off boat for jeep at Bao Nhai then
continue to
Sapa. On the way back,
drop in to see the Vietnamese and
Chinese Harbour Mouth in LaoCai.
Reach Sapa late in the afternoon.
Check in hotel in Sapa.
Meals : Breakfast, Luch, Dinner
Day 3 : (Monday): Sapa - Lao Chai -
Ta Van - Giang Ta Chai - Lao Cai
Breakfast, check out hotel at 10:00
AM. Get downhill to the valley for 3
villages of the Black H’mong, the
Dzay & Red Dzao people. Lunch at a
Dzay family. Get up to the road for
a car back to Sapa. Then take
shuttle bus to LaoCai Station for
the night train to Hanoi. Dinner at
Lao Cai Station.Overnight on the
train
Meals : Breakfast, Luch, Dinner
Day 4 : Hanoi
Getting back to Hanoi from Sapa trip
so early at around 5am. Private car
pick up then transfer to your hotel.
Tour ends.
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