Meal provided: Lunch, Dinner

Depart around 08:00 from Hanoi to Mai Hich via Hoa Binh and Mai Chau. You cross the beautiful landscapes like rice fields, ethnic villages, limestone rocks, green tea hills and sugar cane fields…

Lunch en route.

Arrival in Mai Hich around noon, installation in the large traditional Thai house on stilts. Then, you walk around the village of Mai Hich to discover the daily life and crafts of the white Thai minorities.

Dinner and night in the house on stilts. 

Stay overnight in Mai Chau

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Meal provided: Breakfast, Lunch

Breakfast at homestay.

Departure at 8:00 am from Mai Hich to Son La passing through the fabulous landscapes of the Moc Chau plateau: mountains, forests, ethnic villages and tea plateau. Stops for photos and visits to Black Thai and H’mong villages.

You then pass by Moc Chau, a place of cultivation of tea, silkworms and breeding of dairy cows. Lunch at a local restaurant.

Continuation for Son La and arrival in Son La in the afternoon, installation at the hotel and then you visit the old Penitentiary, the museum and the market of the ethnic groups of Thais. Son La is the land of black Thai ethnic groups.

Stay overnight in Son La.

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Meal provided: Breakfast, Lunch

After breakfast. Then, departure towards Dien Bien Phu through many ethnic villages of black Thais and the mountains. Stops are planned for photos and for visits en route.

Afternoon, visit of the city and in particular of the historic site of the battle of Dien Bien Phu such as the Muong Thanh bridge, Hill A1, the bunker of De Castries and the Museum of Dien Bien Phu which contains photos, objects and evidence of the war between France and Vietnam. With the very rudimentary weapons of the Vietnamese soldiers, they contributed to the victory over the seasoned and well-equipped French.

Stay overnight in Dien Bien Phu

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Meal provided: Breakfast, Lunch

Breakfast at the hotel. Then departure from Dien Bien Phu to Lai Chau passing through the grandiose landscapes.

Arrival in Lai Chau, installation at the hotel and you go hiking in the ethnic villages around Lai Chau. Lai Chau is the home of several different minority ethnic groups: Lu, Thai, H’mongs, Daos... You meet very few tourists in this beautiful region and Lai Chau is an important step between Dien Bien Phu and Sapa or vice versa . Return to Lai Chau at the end of the day and personal discovery of the capital of Lai Chau.

Stay overnight in Lai Chau.

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Meal provided: Breakfast, Lunch 

Breakfast at the hotel. Departure in the morning for Y ty through the mountains, rice terraces, tea hills and ethnic villages, you follow the road to the Chinese border and this road is one of the most beautiful in Vietnam. You cross the Tram Ton pass which is one of the highest passes in northern Vietnam.

Lunch en route.

Stop on the Tram Ton pass for a very nice view in the rugged valleys of the rice terraces and Mount Fansipan, you also pass through the gate of heaven, the highest point of the Tram Ton pass.

Arrival in Sapa, installation at the hotel and discovery of the city of Sapa, in particular the ethnic villages of H’mongs and Zays. 

Stay overnight in Sapa.

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Meal provided: Breakfast, Lunch

Breakfast at the hotel.

Depart early in the morning from Sapa to discover the weekly market of Muong Hum to avoid the crowds of tourists. Arrival at the Muong Hum market, we then suggest you visit this typical market which is held in the middle of a mountainous circus very close to the Chinese border. You meet the ethnic groups of the two countries which are Vietnam and China. It is a meeting at the end of the world in a wild setting of great beauty.

Come back to Sapa, travel on road down the valley from Sapa about 07 kilometers to the Black Hmong village of Lao Chai. It is a nice ride in itself with great views of the lush terraces. In this village which you will have a welcome feeling at any house of the hospitable people there. You can interact them, learn about their culture and customs.

From there, you will just follow the valley for a few miles to the next town of Ta Van. Along the way, you will walk through terraced rice fields and among some picturesque villages, and experience a bit of rural life. Ta Van is a village of Giay people, who look more like the traditional Viet living the Red delta.  As you walk through different hill tribe villages (Hmong and Dao people), it’s helpful to have a guide to explain customs or practices to you and perhaps translate. You’re sure to see other tourists on the trail (which puts many people off), but this is a good example of the many great treks in the area.

Stay overnight in Sapa.

Note: there are one or two weekly markets held in the area so we will arrange the visit to one of these optional markets depending on the specific day.

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Meal provided: Breakfast, Lunch 

This morning, take time to Fanxipan Mount

You will be transferred to the Sapa Cable Station for very amazing trip to Indochina’s Rooftop – Mount Fanxipan by cable car. This is particularly interesting in these northern mountains of the country, where travelers seek the rice terraces and traditional arts of a minority peoples. Cultivating the land to an altitude of around 2,200 meters are the ethnic minorities the lowland Vietnamese generically call ‘Meo’ – savages – and above them looms the bulk of Hua Xi Pan: “giant protruding rock”. You can challenge yourself when hiking 600 stone stairs more to reach the rocky peak of The Roof of Indochina. Below you spread the foothills of the Himalayas, blanketed with rainforest and the first tendrils of fog.

Continue to visit Silver Waterfalls before transfer back to Sapa for lunch at a local restaurant.

Come back to Hanoi by afternoon through fabulous landscapes: rice fields, green hills of tea, fan trees and rural villages.

Arrival in Hanoi at the end of the day

End of tour.

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