Rice terrace field - ethnic market
Tour Code: S 15Duration: 3 days
Level: Easy
Day : 1 colorful ethnic market - sleep in hotel
Guide wait for you in front Lao Cai station and bring you restaurant for breakfast and then taking a car to ethnic maket, the experient guide will give you alot of interested minority cultures, arrive to market you have a short walk to explore the busy merket with colorful of minority and friendly local people, after that go to an other side to see domestic animals . lunch in restaurant near market and then visit ethnic village to discover the basic life of them, continue to Viet Nam - China border gate you can get in China but if have to have a China visa..we go to Sapa town , diner in best restaurant in Sapa.
Day : 2 . Hmong - Giay ethnic - rice paddy field on high mountain - sleep in homestay
Leave behind the bustling town for a nice trek on the stunning trails to Flower valley, you will enjoy amazing views over the lush green valley with very beautiful rice terraces. You will visit the Laochai village inhabited by the Black Hmong tribe, famous of their indigo handicraft, it's an opportunity to meet and interact the friendly tribe, then you will have lunch in a local restaurant on a nice river bank.
After lunch, you keep hiking through differents hill tribe villages,cross some nice suspension bridges before arriving in Tavan village. Explore different tribes'way of living, colourful cultures.
Enjoy the dinner and overnight in a cosy Giay family.
Day : 3 . Dzao ethnic - rice paddy field on the hill - night train.
After breakfast we keep going to Ma Tra valley it is very simple with many golden rice fields and not so many tourist in there, lived by Hmong people, taking a seat in school to talk with ethnic children to known their life and studying, lunch in Red Dzao ethnic village. after lunch you will walk through Ta Phin valley, it is one of best view in Sapa area. take a car back Sapa for shower and have a rest before go to train sation . end tour in Lao Cai station.
Include : experience speaking english guide . meals ,transport, hotel, homestay, entrance fee