BacHa & Cocly – Special markets & Boat trip

Beautiful and colorful Sunday and Tuesday Market of the hill tribal peoples living around Coc Ly Commune and the northern region of Bac Ha District with festival atmosphere.

Meeting to hill tribal peoples such as: Flower Hmong, Black Zao, Tay, Nung…, who go to the market in their bestt traditional costume not only for shopping but mainly for socializing.

Magnificient and stunning landscapes of the mountainous region in the far-north and Chay River Massif.

Night 1 (Saturday): Ha Noi – Lao Cai

At 20.30, picking up and transfers to the train station for the night train to Lao Cai. You will sleep on soft sleeper with air conditioner.

Day 1 (Sunday only): Lao Cai – Bac Ha market – Sapa ( Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner)

Arrival to Lao Cai station around 5.30am, meeting our tour guide and driver then transfer to Bac Ha market. The beginning of the day on which you visit a big market filled with many different hill – tribe peoples. This is the most colorful market in Northern 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.

In the afternoon, spend time visiting Ban Pho village.

The proceed to Sapa. Overnight in Sapa

Day 2 : Sapa – light trek around Ban Ho (Meals: Breakfast, lunch)

Breakfast at the hotel. Start your trip buy take a jeep to Supan village and trek down to Ban Ho village. Have luch at the village then a short walk to visit the village of the Tay ethnic people who have houses on stilts. Back to Sapa.

Leisure in the afternoon to look around the town and people. Overnight in Sapa

Day 3 (Tuesday only): Sapa – Coc Ly market – Lao Cai (Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner)

Breakfast at the hotel.  Leave Sapa early for CocLy 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 (TrungDo village) by the river.

After the boat trip, visit a small town – Bao Nhai

Transfer to Lao Cai Station for the night train to Hanoi. You will sleep on soft sleeper with air conditioner.

Night 4: You will sleep on soft sleeper with air conditioner. The journey takes around 8 hours. Arrive to the train station in Ha Noi the next morning. End service.

What is included in the tour price:

Air conditioned transport for transfer & sightseeing as per program

Train ticket Ha Noi – Lao Cai – Ha Noi (soft sleeper with air conditioner)

English speaking guide

Entrance fees, boat trip

Mineral water on transport (1 bottle/person/day)

Hotel accommodation base on two people share a double or twin room

Meals as per indicated in the tour program

What is included in the tour price:

Travel Insurance

Drinks & other meals not mentioned in the program

Personal expense

Single supplement

Tips: Take good walking shoes, raincoats, jackets, torch, insect repellent and suncream…