Hanoi – Sapa – Hanoi 3 Days, 2 Nights

The full day tour takes you around Hanoi’s highlights sites including the Thang Long Citadel, Ho Chi Minh Complex: Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum and his stilt house, Presidential Palace and the One Pillar Pagoda. You also have chance to visit historic University – The Temple of Literature, that dates back to the 11th century; learn about Buddhist practices in a serene lakeside pagoda. Visit the famous Ethnology Museum. Back to the Old Quarter to walk through the narrow streets that were famous for its specialized craft making guilds, the guild streets are named for their product or location and still bear such names nowadays.

Dinner at your own arangement then you will be picked up by your driver to go to the train station catching the night train to Lao Cai (Sapa)

We will pick you up at Lao Cai railway station to take you up to the township of Sapa which takes approx one hour. Have breakfast at local restaurant.

At around 9:00 am, the tour will start from Sapa town, you will take a 7 km of walking down to the south east of Sapa along the side of Muong Hoa Valley to Y Linh Ho Village of the Black H’mong to see those sensual patterns of the terraces from above. And then take 3 km trekking down to Lao Chai Village, and 4 km through terraced rice fields to Ta Van Village of the Giay minority people.

Have a picnic lunch at local family, where you can see the local house architecture and witness local daily life styles and exclusive customs.

Enjoy the landscapes on the way until getting back to Sapa by car in the afternoon and free at leisure the rest of the day.

Breakfast at the hotel then take a walk down to the South-west of Sapa (around 3 km) to visit Cat Cat Village of the Black H’mong, one of the more well-known ethnic village of Sapa. Visitors to Cat Cat have an opportunity to admire a lively and colorful picture. That is the image of young women sitting by looms with colorful pieces of brocade decorated with designs of flowers and birds. When these pieces of brocade are finished, they are dyed and embroidered with beautiful designs. A noteworthy is that H’Mong women use plants and leaves to dye these brocade fabrics. Relax at the foot of the stunning waterfall and the vestige of a hydroelectric power station that was constructed by the French during the colonial time in Vietnam.

Return to Sapa to have lunch then the shuttle bus will arive and take you back to your hotel in Hanoi.

Arrive at Hanoi around 9pm. End of our services.