Unique Sapa – Coc Ly market - 2 days / 3 nights

Night 1: night train to Lao Cai Station

South Pacific Travel’s coach and guide will pick you up at your hotel and transfer you for the overnight train to Lao Cai Station. Enjoy the experience the romance of overnight train travel.

Transfer: Private AC coach hotel – railway station
Accommodation: 4 Soft sleeper in AC shared cabin.
Meal: Not applicable.

Day 1 : Lao Cai station – Sapa town – Cat Cat – Sin Chai (B, L, D)

Arrive in Lao Cai Station do a little bit morning exercise, feel ready for our trip. Leave your luggage and have breakfast in Victoria hotel, you first sneak through the market and leave the busy town behind.

After a couple of minutes, you will follow a road going downhill to Cat Cat village. You will stop by a waterfall and a hydroelectric station. Take a rest here before you trek downhill to get Sin Chai village. Enjoy beautiful scenery on the way back to Sapa town for lunch.

Check in hotel, you will have free time to discover by yourself in the afternoon. Enjoy your first night in Sapa with romance.

Transfer: Private AC coach railway station – Sapa town: 45 minutes.
Trek: 3hrs trek/dirt paths/downhill.
Guide: English speaking
Meal: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation:Bamboo Sapa Hotel or equivalent

Day 2: Sapa – Coc Ly market (Tuesday only) – Overnight train back to Hanoi (B, L)

Leave from Sapa early at 7:00 am for Coc Ly market which is situated far from Sapa. Enjoy the peaceful life of 6 different minority peoples (Flower H’mong, Black Dzao, Tay, Dzay, Ha Nhi 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 (Trung Do village) by the river. After the boat trip, visit a small town – Bao Nhai and then take car back to Lao Cai Station for the night train to Hanoi.

Have dinner at local restaurant before getting on the train.

Accommodation: 4 Soft sleeper in AC shared cabin.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Transfer: Private AC coach railway station – Sapa
Freshen up: room available
Guide: English speaking

Day 3: Arrive back to Hanoi

You will arrive in Hanoi Station at around 5h30. Our tour finishes.

Transfer: private AC coach
Guide: English speaking guide