CocLy Market – 6 villages, a market and 7 different minority peoples

Day 1 : LaoCai – Sapa Town ( Overnight at the Hotel )
Day 2 : Sapa Town – LaoChai – TaVan Village ( Overnight at the village )
Day 3 : TaVan – GiangTaChai Villages – Sapa ( Overnight at the hotel )
Day 4: Sapa – CocLy Market – Boat Trip on Chay River LaoCai ( Overnight at the train )

Day 1 (Saturday): LaoCai – Sapa Town (B)

6.00 am: Car and tourguide of Sapa Village Travel pick up you at the LaoCai Train Station to Sapa. After Breakfast, you check in hotel. Free to explore the town. (B)

Day 2 (Sunday) : Sapa – Laochai Village – TaVan Village ( B, L , D )

Start from Sapa at 10:00 AM by jeep and then get down to a valley, visit an YLinhHo village where living of Black H’mong. Take a small path to go and visit other 2 villages of the H’mong and the Dzay people (LaoChai and TaVan village). Stay in TaVan at a Dzay family. Picnic lunch on the way and dinner at the family. Overnight at TaVan village.

6 hours trekking, 16 km, 3 villages:

Day 3 (Monday): TaVan Village – Giang Ta Chai Village -Sapa ( B, L , D )

Breakfast at the home-stay, take the road to GiangTaChai village to see the Red Dzao people via the paths through terraces and bamboo forests. Visit a waterfall, a suspension bridge. Picnic lunch and cross the river. Visit an H’mong village up to the mountain. Take a jeep back to Sapa. Visit the ancient stone circle on the way back. Check in hotel, dinner in Sapa. Overnight at hotel.

5 hours trekking, 14 km, 2 villages.

Day 4 (Tuesday): Sapa – CocLy Market – Boat Trip on Chay River ( B, L , D )

Breakfast at the hotel, leave from Sapa early at 7:00 AM for CocLy market by jeep or bus, which is situated far from Sapa. Enjoy the peaceful life of different minority peoples ( Flower H’mong, Black Dzao, Tay, Dzay). The market is the chance for the minorities to meet and share joy and sorrows after the crops, to exchange one another’s experience. Say goodbye to the market and get down onto a boat along Chay river. You are bound to feel great and find yourselves smaller among high Rock Mountains and to be surprised at white and breathtakingly waterfalls. Get off the boat to visit a village of the Tay Minority ( TrungDo village) by the river. After the boat trip, visit a small town – BaoNhai and then take jeep back to Laocai Station for the night train to Hanoi. Have dinner before getting on the night train.

The end of tour.

Tour price includes :

- Full meals as mentioned on the tour program ( B = Breakfast, L = Lunch, D = Dinner )

- English/French – speaking guide

- Entrance fees

- Accommodation ( Hotel and home-stay at TaVan village )

- Transport by private jeep or minibus as the tour program

- Security services

- Private Boat trip on Chay River

- Water and cool shower/day/pax

Excludes:

- Travel Insurance

- Drinks

- Phone calls and other private expenses

What to bring:

• Sun Block
• Wide brim hat
• Camera + Film
• Comfortable shoes
• Rain gear
• Warm clothes
• Insect Repellent