Sapa - Muong Hum market - Sunday 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
Guide: English speaking
Accommodation: 4Soft 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 down hill 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
Trek: 3hrs trek/dirt paths/downhill
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and dinner
Guide: English speaking
Accommodation:

Superior: Bamboo Sapa or equivalent
Deluxe: Chau Long or equivalent

Day 2: Sapa – Muong Hum market (Sunday only) – Overnight train back to Hanoi (B, L)

This gives you an alternative option to visit a Sunday market in the remote area which is different from Bac Ha market. Leave Sapa early in the morning we take the bus down to Lao Cai Muong Hum market which is located 35km from Y Ty border.

On Sunday Muong Hum is always packed with colorful ethnic minorities such as Ha Nhi, Phu La, Tu Di, Black Dao, Giay, Red Hmong as well as Black Hmong. Muong Hum market is more authentic and less visited compared with Bac Ha market. After spending the whole morning exploring the market you will have lunch in a local restaurant then we go to visit the village of Ha Nhi tribe. Go back to Lao Cai to have dinner and take the night train back Hanoi.

Guide: English speaking
Accommodation: 4 Soft sleeper in AC shared cabin.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and dinner
Transfer: Private AC coach Muong Hum - railway station

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