TREKKING TOUR FROM BAC HA TO HA GIANG

* BRIEF ITINERARY:
Day 1: Hanoi – Lao Cai
Day 2: Lao Cai – Sapa – Trekking to Bac Ha Market
Day 3: Bac Ha – Hoang Su Phi – Ha Giang
Day 4: Ha Giang Adventure Tour to Khau Lan
Day 5: Khau Lan Trekking Tour
Day 6: Khau Lan – Lang Tan Village
Day 7: Trekking Tour in Lang Tan Village
Day 8: Lang Tan – Quan Ba Passing Meo Vac
Day 9: Quan Ba Trekking Tour
Day 10: Quan Ba – Hanoi
Day 11: Hanoi – Departure

Day 1. Vietnam Trekking Tour to Hoang Su Phi, Ha Giang, Meo Vac, Quan Ba: Hanoi – Lao Cai (-/-/D)

Arrive Hanoi. Enjoy the sights and sounds of the Old Quarter. Located on an area of 100 ha, the Old Quarter is home to more than 1,000 traditional houses and has 36 streets named after specific merchants’ crafts and trade.
Overnight on board the train to Lao Cai.

Day 2. Vietnam Trekking Tour to Hoang Su Phi, Ha Giang, Meo Vac, Quan Ba: Lao Cai – Trekking to Bac Ha Market (B/L/D)

Drive through the famous market town of Bac Ha and beyond over one of Vietnam’s highest road passes. Bac Ha Market is in Bac Ha District and belong to Lao Cai Province, 80km from Sapa town and over 1hour by car.Bac Ha is one of the biggest Market on Sapa and open on Sunday only.It’s not only the trading center but it’s also the place for couples, friends and relatives.

At this market every thing on sales: Pig, dog, cat, houres… so it make this market hotter on Sunday. Sapa has many natural sites such as HamRong Mountain, Silver Waterfall, RattanBridge, Bamboo Forest and Ta Phin Cave.Sapa is also the starting point for many climbers and scientists who want to reach the top of Fansipan Mountain, the highest mountain in Vietnam at 3,143m.
This is a full day in the vehicle, though there’s no time to get bored as the scenery is truly breathtaking.

Day 3. Vietnam Trekking Tour to Hoang Su Phi, Ha Giang, Meo Vac, Quan Ba : Bac Ha – Hoang Su Phi – Ha Giang (B/L/D)

Upon leaving Bac Ha we set off on a full day journey through Sin Man and Hoang Su Phi to Ha Giang Town. The rough but scenic route traverses a dense jungle before crossing over a pass and dropping down to Sin Man. This day is a real challenge for our driver as we travel by winding roads with many uphill and down hill drives. Along the way we may encounter the Nung Ing, Tay, Red Dao, Dao Ao Dai, La Chi and Co Lao, just some of the many hill tribe groups who have settled there.
O/N in Ha Giang.

Day 4. Vietnam Trekking Tour to Hoang Su Phi, Ha Giang, Meo Vac, Quan Ba : Ha Giang – Khau Lan (B/L/D)

9.00 am You have the opportunity to participate a guided tour in the Ha Giang museum followed by an early lunch. 12.30 am. The guides pick you up at the hotel and you travel by Transfer to the commune Centre in Quyet Tien. There from you will walk about 3 hours to Khau Lan village, passing green paddy fields, little villages and beautiful forests. In Khau Lan – the Dao people, you meet the village leader and your host families. Arround 6.30 pm. All the tour members will have dinner at one family and split later to spend the night in three or four different host families.

Day 5. Vietnam Trekking Tour to Hoang Su Phi, Ha Giang, Meo Vac, Quan Ba : Khau Lan Trekking (B/L/D)

Discard your watches here…. Khau Lan is a small village of the Dao people. You have the unique opportunity to share the daily life of your host family, which might include working in the fields, fetching wood, cutting grass for the livestock and cooking meals.

Depending on the activity, you have lunch on different spots, outside the village. After another local meal for dinner, you might spend the evening sitting together around a fire, discussing and laughing with the local people then you will spend another night at your host family’s house.

Day 6 – Vietnam Trekking Tour to Hoang Su Phi, Ha Giang, Meo Vac, Quan Ba : Khau Lan – Lang Tan (B/L/D)

After breakfast and farewell with the hosts, you take another trail back to Quyet Tien commune center, passing beautiful caves, streams and forests. The Transfer bring you to Quan Ba District town, where you have about 2 hours time to take a shower and relax in the district guesthouse or take a walk through the small town. Around 2 pm. Your guides will pick you up to travel by Transfer to Thanh Van Commune.

After a short walk (30 minutes) you will arrive in Lang Tan village. Lang Tan is a small village of Hmong people. The village is placed in rugged mountains which makes planting rice difficult. In order to increase their income, the villagers developed a special maize wine production. After you have met the village leader and your second host family, then there is plenty of time is available to walk around in the pretty village and meet the people. In the evening the group will enjoy a local dinner and sleep in Hmong style houses.

Day 7 – Vietnam Trekking Tour to Hoang Su Phi, Ha Giang, Meo Vac, Quan Ba: Lang Tan Trekking (B/L/D)

On this day you can choose one out of two options: option01: Includes a 5-6 hours trek in so far uncharted territory. Together with a Footprint guide and a local pathfinder you walk over hills and through forests, villages of Hmong and Dao people to Can Ty Commune where the Transfer is waiting for you.

The car takes you through beautifully landscape to Dong Van Town, visiting the vestige of Hmong kingdom on route. option02: Includes a longer stay in Lang Tan village watching the local people producing the maize wine instead of more trekking. In the afternoon the Transfer picks you up and drives you to Dong Van, where you meet the rest of the group. Around 6.30 pm. All the members of the tour check-in a small hotel in Dong Van and take dinner in a local restaurant.

Day 8 – Vietnam Trekking Tour to Hoang Su Phi, Ha Giang, Meo Vac, Quan Ba: Lang Tan – Quan Ba Passing Meo Vac (B/L/D)

The Transfer take you through a beautiful landscape of rolling and imposing mountains and steep valleys leading from Dong Van to Meo Vac District. This is the most remote corner of Vietnam, where the traditional life of ethnic minority people is the most vivid and colorful.

After lunch in Yen Minh town, the cars take you to Hop Tien village. In Hop Tien you can visit a hemp cooperative, where local people explain and demonstrate the traditional hemp production (including dyeing with natural colors, weaving and decorating).

Around 5.30pm. You will travel back to Quan Ba town, where you check in the comfortable district guesthouse. At 6.30 pm you go out for dinner in a local restaurant before you spend the night in the guesthouse.

Day 9 – Vietnam Trekking Tour to Hoang Su Phi, Ha Giang, Meo Vac, Quan Ba: Quan Ba Trekking (B/L/D)

After a local breakfast you will have time to visit the very colorful market in Quan Ba town. On this market you will see people from different ethnic minority groups, which walk all the way from their mountain villages to Quan Ba town, in order to trade items and meet other people. 12.00 am. You will have dinner in a local restaurant in Quan Ba town. 6.30 pm Dinner in a local restaurant in Quan Ba town and overnight in the district guesthouse.

Day 10 – Vietnam Trekking Tour to Hoang Su Phi, Ha Giang, Meo Vac, Quan Ba: Quan Ba – Hanoi (B/L/D)

In Quan Ba visit an incredible local market. Different minority people descend from their mountain villages to trade items and meet other people. Begin the drive back to Hanoi

Day 11 – Vietnam Trekking Tour to Hoang Su Phi, Ha Giang, Meo Vac, Quan Ba: Hanoi – Departure (B/-/D)

Today we have free time to explore city by your own until transfer to airport for your departure.

Include :
+ Transportation in private air-conditioned vehicle with driver in delta and local transport in mountain
+ Accommodation: twin sharing room at mentioned hotels, guesthouses or similar one and home stay during the trek or tent
+ English or French speaking guide and local guide for trekking
+ Meals as mentioned:B = breakfast, L = lunch, D = dinner
+ Train ticket ( soft sleeper cabin for 4 passengers)
+ Entrance fee to indicated sights
+ Permit and porter for trekking
+ Sleeping bag and mattresses
+ Mosquito net
+ Motorbike
+ Water, Fruit and Snack (3L/ pax/ day)
+ Equipment

Exclude :
+ Other meals
+ Tip
+ Drinks
+ Airport tax
+ Single room supplement
+ Personal expenses
+ Travel insurance
+ Visa
+ Flight in/ out of Vietnam
+ Any optional additional tours or activities during free time
+ Surcharge for peak season
+ Local holiday days and gala dinner (X’mas, New Year & Tet “Lunar New Year”) 

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