5 days Northwest adventures with Bac Ha Sunday Market

Day 1 · Day 01: (Wed) Ha Noi - Mai Chau – Son La

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   Mai Chau

   5 hours

   07:30 pick up at hotel for our Northwest Loop.

   • Heading Mai Chau for the first visit to the white Thai minority.

   • Get to know their daily life and special architecture of stilt houses.

   • Afterwards strolling throughout narrow lanes of Lac and Pom Coong village of the White Thai.

   • Enjoy lunch in a local family in Mai Chau.

   PM

   • Follow the road number 6 to Moc Chau. Moc Chau is a mountain town at the elevation of 1500 m above the sea, home to the green H’Mong, the Dzao and the Muong ethnic minorities and famous for Its plantations of green tea and dairy cow.

   • After a quick stop then continue our trip to to Son La town.

   • Dinner and overnight in Son La.

   Inclusive services: A private adventure car, entrance fees, English speaking tour guide and meals (L + D)

   Hotel: Hanoi – Son La hotel 3*

Set menu with local foods

Hotel.

Day 2 · Day 02: (Thu) Son La – Tuan Giao – Dien Bien Phu – Muong Lay (former Lai Chau)

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   Dien Bien Phu

   5 hours

   • Breakfast at the hotel then we drive to visit the Colonial Prison of French.

   • A special drive over the Pass named Fadin pass, the pass with 20km long, where the earth meets the heaven. From here you can enjoy the 3600 view of the Northwest.

   • Visit some local hill tribes village on the way.

   • Head down to Dien Bien Phu valley for lunch.

   PM

   • After lunch we will visit Dien Bien Phu old battle field and the war remnant museum, the A1 hill and the Martyr’s cemetery for who died in the war and the bunk of the General De Castry….

   • Drive to Muong Lay for overnight.

   Inclusive services: A private adventure car, entrance fees, English speaking tour guide and meals (B + L + D)

   Hotel: Lan Anh hotel 2*

A la carte

Hotel

Day 3 · Day 03: (Fri) Muong Lay – Lai Chau – Sa Pa

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   Sapa

   6 hours

   • Breakfast at the hotel.

   • Drive on the thread road up to the Heaven Gate for universal view of Lai Chau and Sa Pa and Hoang Lien Son mountain range with Fansipan summit of 1343m high.

   PM

   • Afternoon arrive in Sa Pa.

   • Check in hotel then free time to relax and stroll around Sa Pa.

   • Dinner and overnight in Sa Pa.

   Inclusive services: A private adventure car, entrance fees, English speaking tour guide and meals (B + L)

   Hotel: Vista or Panorama hotel 3*

Hotel.

Day 4 · Day 04: (Sat) Sa Pa Trekking – Bac Ha homestay

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   Bac Ha

   6 hours

   Sa Pa Trekking to 4 villages: Ylinh Ho - Lao Chai - Ta Van

   4-5 hrs trekking throughout 4 hamlets - visit 2 different kinds of minority.

   • Breakfast at the hotel then check out the hotel.

   • Car take us to Ylinh Ho village for our mountain light trek to YlinhHo and Lao Chai village, visit the black H’mong minority village and spectacular scenery of terraced paddies on both sides of Muong Hoa stream with the simple rattan suspending bridges in scatter.

   PM

   • After a picnic lunch, keep on alongside Muong Hoa stream, over suspension bridges to Ta Van village of the Dzay people.

   • Our car to pick up and then drive down to Bac Ha.

   • Dinner and overnight in a homestay in Na Hoi village of the Tay and Flower’s Hmong hill tribe

   Inclusive services: A private adventure car, entrance fees, English speaking tour guide and meals (B + L + D)

   Hotel: Cozy Host homestay in Na Hoi village

Homestay

Day 5 · Day 05: (Sun) Bac Ha Sunday market - Hanoi

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   Bac Ha Market

   5 hours Admission included

   Attend Bac Ha – A famous Sunday Market - Hanoi

   • You should wake up early around 06h00 to see Bac Ha market, early then you can see what is original of an Ethnic minority market.

   • Attend the Market that known as the biggest ethnic market of all Northwest Vietnam. By about 7 different kinds of hill tribes, with 7 different colors of clothes, as well as traditional customs and local culture from the Tay, the Dzay, the Red Dzao, the Black H’mong… Come to the market for interesting discoveries, as well as getting to know the universal daily life of the hill tribes in Vietnam. Our guide will offer explanations.

   • After the market, Visit the King Cat house.

   • Visit Ban Pho village of the Flower H’monghill tribe. We may got a chance to enjoy traditional folk music, dancing and musical instruments that you will hear traveling in Vietnam.

   • Leave Bac Ha for a visit to Trung Do village of the Tay people.

   • Lunch in a local restaurant.
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   Hanoi

   3 hours

   PM

   • Drive back to Hanoi.

   • Estimated to arrive in Hanoi at 18:30 -19:00

   • End the tour at your hotel.

   Inclusive services: A private adventure car, entrance fees, English speaking tour guide and meals (B + L)