From Hanoi: 2-Day Fansipan Peak and Trek to Village with Train

What's Included

Meeting and pickup

Itinerary

Day 1
Overnight train Hanoi to Lao Cai
1 stop
1
Hanoi train station
Make your own way to Hanoi Train Station at 22:00. We will provide you with train ticket (one person on bed, each cabin has 4 beds) The train leaves at 22:40
10 hours • Admission ticket included
Day 2
Fansipan Peak - Ý Linh Hồ - Lao Chải - Tả Van
2 stops
2
Fansipan
6:30am: Pick up at Lao Cai Station, then have an hour drive uphill in a shared mini van to Sapa. 7:30am: Enjoy Breakfast at hotel. You can take a shower at our hotel. If you have many luggage, you can leave your luggage at our hotel, only bring what is necessary with you to homestay. You will come back our hotel on the last day to take your luggage and have dinner before back to Hanoi. 08:30: Get picked up at your hotel then have a short walk with your tour guide to Sunplaza to get the Muong Hoa Funicular of 3 km alongside of Muong Hoa valley to the cable car station in O Quy Ho around 20 minutes. The cable car ride will take you around 20 minutes to the next station at 3,000m ASL. Following 639 stone steps from the station to the top is around 40 minutes then we will arrive at the 3,143m summit, celebrate this victory.On the way back we also walk down, travel by cable car and funicular again. 12.00 - 13:00: Have lunch at a local restaurant.
3 hours • Admission ticket included
3
Ta Van
14:30: Begin your trekking trip. You will follow the main road heading south for about an hour before turning right to a foot path down hill to Muong Hoa Valley. This part offers spectacular scenery of the highest part of Hoang Lien Son mountain range and in a nice day, Fansipan Peak can be seen. Crossing the river by a suspension bridge you will challenge your feet uphill to Y Linh Ho village. Here you will pay visiting to some H’mong families, watching them doing their daily works. Then reach to Lao Chai, a large village of the H’mong and then following the river bank to Ta Van of the Zay people. Have dinner in Ta Van Village Overnight at Ta Van Village
4 hours • Admission ticket free
Day 3
Ta Van - Giang Ta Chai - Hau Thao - Sapa - Overnight train to Hanoi (B,L,D)
1 stop
4
Giang Ta Chai Village
7:00am: Enjoy breakfast at homestay. 9:00am: Begin the tour. You will take the trail uphill, passing fascinating terraced rice field and some small hamlets of the H’mong 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 Zao 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 Zao and experiencing the hospitality you will cross the river by another suspension bridge and then uphill again to Hau Thao village where you will pay visiting to a local handicraft center where H’mong and Zao women gather for exchanging experience and skill of making handicrafts. 5:30pm: Our guide pick you up at hotel and take you to Lao Cai station. Have dinner at a restaurant near Lào Cai Station Overnight train to Hanoi. You will arrive in Hanoi at 5:30am and back to your hotel by yourself.
5 hours • Admission ticket included

Additional info

• Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
• Public transportation options are available nearby
• Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
• Specialized infant seats are available
• Not recommended for pregnant travelers
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels

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