Tour code
Type of tour: Private
Destination: Sapa, Ha Giang, Meo Vac, Dong Van, Ban Gioc waterfall, Ba Be lake,
Duration: 8 days
Note: Departs from 2 pax.
Trip plan:
Day 1: Hanoi – Sapa
Day 2: Sapa trekking
Day 3: Sapa – Ha Giang
Day 4: Ha Giang – Quan Ba - Dong Van district
Day 5:Dong Van - Ma Phi Leng - Meo Vac - Cao Bang
Day 6: Cao Bang - Ban Gioc Waterfall
Day 7: Cao Bang - Ba Be National Park
Day 8: Ba Be National Park – Hanoi
Day 1: Ha Noi – Sapa
Our companion and motorist will pick you up around 7.30 am for your 5 hour drive to Sapa. Simply sit back, relax, and enjoy as the decor transforms from bulging megalopolis to rolling hills and endless rice paddies. Around noon you'll arrive in Sapa, at which time you’ll get to enjoy an original lunch. Also for your first trip use the longest string auto system in Asia, departing from Sapa Town to the loftiest mountain top of Southeast Asia, Fansipan, formerly known as the ‘Roof of Indochina ’. The loftiest point of the mountain culminates at 3.143 m above ocean position. The ascent by string auto takes about 30 twinkles offering you on the way a stunning view of terraced rice fields as far as the eye can see. Once arrived, you'll be suitable to visit the tabernacles and finish the rise by bottom, just 600 stairs, or by funicular before you head back to Sapa Town by auto for a late stay in a hotel. It’s recommended to bring a jacket as the temperature drops and the wind blows at this altitude.
Day 2: Sapa Trekking
The moment you'll journey to rice paddy fields Ý Linh Hồ, flower denes and Black Hmong town lets, located in the mountains with amazing panoramic views. You'll visit an original house to meet the townies and discover their diurnal life. After lunch in an original eatery, you'll continue through the rice sundeck fields to Lao Chai and Ta Van Village of Zay people to discover their culture. This is the biggest vale and features most emotional rice sundeck fields in the total of Sapa. You'll have regale and spend the night in a sleepover in Ta Van Village. A 15- 17 km journey.
Day 3: Sapa – Ha Giang
The moment we’ll leave Sapa in favor of Vietnam’s final frontier, Ha Giang. On the way we’ll make a stop at Pho Rang for lunch before we've a walking stint to Vinh Yen inhabited by Tay communities.We continue our drive deeper into Ha Giang, enjoying the spectacular decor along the way, before eventually reaching the Tay village for another walk where we will spend the night around 6 pm, just in time for a home- cooked regale. You’ll overnight in this traditional Tay support house. About 6- 8 km walk.
Day 4: Ha Giang – Quan Ba – Dong Van
Get an early breakfast in Hà Giang before hitting the road. As you head north on the QL4C, the geography snappily transforms into a limestone mountain range, covered with lush jungle. Soon you’ll reach the Dong Van Karst Plateau, a UNESCO Global Geopark, where you’ll get your first taste of exhilarating views along with grueling, tight angles. You'll stop for lunch at the small original eatery and it beautiful mountain vill of Tam Son, latterly we will heading to the majestic “ King of the H’mong Palace ”, a fort erected by an original leader, Vuong Chi Duc, who confederated himself with French forces against Viet Minh. Erected in the 1900’s, this palace was designed in the style of ancient Chinese armature and French, and it was made from accoutrements similar as solid gravestone blocks, wood and terracotta penstocks. Once you’ve finished at the palace, we continue on our trip until we reach to your hotel in Dong Van at around 5 pm, where we’ll have regale at an original eatery and stay for the night.
Day 5: Dong Van – Meo Vac – Cao Bang
After your breakfast, you’ll start the day by visit Dong Van Market (If in Sunday), where locals come from the entire girding town lets to change products for rudiments need that they cannot produce by themselves. You'll also climb up a pass called French Fortress of Pu Lo, erected in 1890 and vacated in 1945, from which you can enjoy a spectacular view of megacity and entire region. Latterly you'll have a chance to climbing 8 km to the top of Ma Pi Leng Pass, through a limestone peaks, Stone Mountain, and defiles before descending into the vale of Meo Vac and continuing on the vale road through the mountains, crossing the swash, and arriving Cao Bang megacity and do hotel check in. You'll have regale in an eatery.
Day 6: Cao Bang – Ban Gioc Waterfall
At the day of number forth, it's seen to be you’re stylish of the trip. Due to you'll visit one of the most spectacular natural prodigies in the North of Vietnam is Ban Gioc Waterfall. Which spans over about 300 measures, a half of it belong to Vietnam and other half belong to China. You’ll spend eventually at cascade to relax with it amazing atmosphere girding at the cascade. Once you’ve finished at the cascade, it’s time to heading to Nguom Ngao Cave, The delve long about, 1440m measures underground and is brimmed with inconceivable stalactites and stalagmites and to discover the gemstone conformations which have been sculpted by corrosion over millions of times. Latterly, you'll have a chance to visit Phat Tich abbey which gives great sapience into original beliefs and offers unexampled views of Ban Gioc Waterfall with China in the background. After visiting those places, you'll travel down through mountains before reaching the Nung vill of Quang Uyen. You'll be ate by Mr. Kim the proprietor of sleepover where you'll stay for a night and having regale at his house
Day 7: Cao Bang – Ba Be National Park
In the morning, you’ll have breakfast at the sleepover, also, the trip continuing trip down with road QL3 for about 4 hours also will reach to Ba Be Legend Hotel run by Ba Ba Discovery where you'll have lunch and stay for a night. In the autumn, we will do a partial day of boat trip around Ba Be Lake. The lake having been formed roughly 200 million times agone and girding by limestone escarpments, which in turn are covered by primary timbers with a large variety of marine life- there are over a hundred of species of brackish fish in the lakes. You'll continue trip on Nang swash and take a short walk in Bản Cám vill where Tày people living and substantially depend on husbandry and fishing, after that we will go on our boat and visit Puong delve. Puong Cave is 300 measures long and about 30 measures high, formed from the inflow of Nang River through Lung Nham Limestone Mountains with steep escarpments and colorful stalactites of everlasting shapes and colors inside the delve . Latterly, the boat will take you back to the lake and stop at Widow Island for swimming ahead go back to hotel.
Day 8: Ba Be National Park – Hanoi
After breakfast at the hotel, we’ll take a visit to some girding townlets, and on the way then you’ll pass by Pac Ngoi Village, a typical of traditional support- house armature. Also, you'll visit Hua Ma Cave, a dry delve with thousands of stalactites and stalagmites. Hard the delve have a stunning tableware cascade where you can spend some time for visit and syncope in this cascade for refreshing. After a while, your motorist will take to back to your hotel and enjoying the lunch time in the eatery. After lunch we will take you back to Hanoi on the way where we ’ll stop and give you a chance to take some nice prints of the rice and downtime melon terraced fields girding you we ’ll finish our trip back to Hanoi, drop you off at your hotel around 6 pm
Tour price includes
Cable car
Car transportation
Experience tour guides
Boat trip on Ba Be lake
Homestays/hotel
Meals as stated in the plan
All entrance tickets.
Tour price excludes
Personal expenses, tips and gratuities
Travel insurance
Beverage
Extra service
Request single room: US $20
Children rates
Free of charge for children under 4 years old and sharing bed with parents.
Surcharge 70% rate of adult for children (5-11 years) sharing bed with parents.
Over 11 years is adult’s rate.
The trip plan can be changed due to weather condition and operating conditions.
Special request (diet or vegetarian, …) should be sent before your departure date.
What you may need to take!
Taking your essentials needs, including light comfortable clothes suitable for outdoor activities, comfortable walking shoes. Small bag for hiking and trekking, personal passport and mosquito spray, sun hat, scream…etc
Have a good discover journey!