Y LINH HO – LAO CHAI – TA VAN – CAT CAT – SIN CHAI – TA PHIN 3D2N

Pick up at the train station when you arrive and transfer to Sapa by a tourist shared bus.

If your room is ready when you get there, you can check in early. If not, we'll give you a simple room where you can shower.

Start the trip as follows at 9:30.

First, walk 6 km south east of Sapa along the side of the Muong Hoa valley to the Black H'mong town of Y Linh Ho. Continue a 2-km trek down to Lao Chai village, then walk through terraced rice fields to the Dzay minority town of Ta Van. If you have lunch with a local family, you can learn a lot about their daily lives and unique customs from the way their homes are built and how they live. Enjoy the scenery...as you go. The last hike is about 2 km to the bus stop in Tavan. From there, you can take a car or a motorbike back to Sapa.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and dinner

Accommodation: hotel in Sapa.

A walk down to the south-west of Sapa, about 4 km, to visit the Black H'mong town of Cat Cat. Relax at the base of a beautiful waterfall and the remains of a hydroelectric power station built by the French when they ruled Vietnam. Have a picnic lunch by the river, and then walk 3 km to Sin Chai, the town at the foot of Fansipan Mountain, which is called "the roof of Vietnam and Indochina." From here, you can see a lot of beautiful scenery before going up in a jeep to go back to Sapa.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and dinner

Accommodation: hotel in Sapa.

Visit the red Dzao in Suoi Thau and Ma Tra towns, which are 5 km away by jeep. 9 kilometers of hiking through the town and rice and corn fields. Picnic lunch en – route. Reach the town of Ta Phin, where we can learn about the red Dzao minority's way of life and customs. We can also enjoy the scenery.Then, you'll drive back to Sapa and take a bus to Lao Cai station.