9:00 pm: we pick you up from your hotel or our office to start the overnight trip from Hanoi to Sapa.

You can choose between overnight bus or train from Hanoi to Sapa. Price will be provide based on your choice.

• Travel by bus option: the bus arrive in Sapa town around 6.00 am. You will be picked up by our local guide to the restaurant. 
• Travel by train option: you will arrive in Lao Cai station around 5.30 am. Get picked up by our driver and travel around 1 hour to Sapa town. 

After freshen up and Breakfast in a local restaurant you will enjoy a free walk around this charming town, paying visit to Sapa market and the old cathedral where you can meet a lot of local ethnic minority peoples such as Black H’mong and Red Zao wearing their traditional colorful dresses selling their farming and gathering products and handicrafts for souvenir. Back to our Sapa Pathfinder office at by 9:20 and begin your exploration trip to Muong Hoa valley.

12 km of trekking, visit Y Linh Ho and Lao Chai villages of the H’mong minority. After lunch at a local family in Lao Chai or in a drinking shop nearby the river bank, we keep on hiking to Ta Van village of the Dzay where you have opportunity to experience their daily life, work and original custom.

Arrive late in the afternoon to your homestay in Hau Thao village of Hmong people. With your tour guide and the house owners, we will set up a temporary cooking class to learn how to cook Vietnamese food for dinner.

Enjoying your dinner and getting to know local typical traditional customs, cultural….

Home-stay at the Hmong local house

Leaving Hau Thao village after Breakfast, you will take the trail uphill, passing fascinating terraced rice field and some small hamlets of the Hmong before getting through a bamboo forest to a waterfall, enjoy a break for magnificent scenery and then continue walking for half an hour to Giang Ta Chai village of the Red Dzao peoples which sits on the top of a hill and looks down Muong Hoa river. After spending time visiting the village, making friend with the Dzao and experiencing the hospitality you will cross the river by another suspension bridge and then uphill again to Su Pan village where you will pay visiting to a local handicraft center where Hmong and Dzao women gather for exchanging experience and skill of making handicrafts.

A late Lunch will be prepare here nearby this center and then you have time relaxing as well as getting acquaintance with local school boys, girls and their teachers as well. Later a short drive will take you back to Sapa town then get on the bus around 4.00 pm from Sapa back to Hanoi.

10.00 pm: Arrive in Hanoi Old Quarter and we arrange the transfer back to your hotel. End of the tour.