Bac Ha Market is in Bac Ha District and belong to Lao Cai Province, 80km from Sapa town and over 3 hour by car. Bac Ha is one of the biggest Market on Sapa and open on Sunday only. It’s not only the trading center but it’s also the place for couples, friends and relatives. At this market every thing on sales: Pig, dog, cat, houres… so it make this market hotter on Sunday.

Can Cau Market is a small, but very colourful market, set in the mountains near the Chinese border. The Flower Hmong minority is the most common here, and their colourful dresses makes is a beautiful sight.

Tour Highlights:

• Bac Ha is where you’ll want to stock up on water buffalo, pigs and horses.
• To know about handicrafts made by some of the 10 Montagnard groups living near here – Flower Hmong, Dzao, Giay (Nhang), Han (Hoa), Xa Fang, Lachi, Nung, Phula, Thai and Thulao.
• Will have a welcome feeling at any house of the hospitable people.
• You can interact them, learn about their culture and customs.
• Can Cau Market is a small, but very colourful market, set in the mountains near the Chinese border.
• The Flower Hmong minority is the most common here, and their colourful dresses makes is a beautiful sight.

Nihgt 1 : Hanoi -Laocai (night train)
Pick up at your hotel and taxi take you to Hanoi Railway Station for the night train at at 9:30 PM to get to Laocai Station. Sleep on the train. 
Day 1 : Arrival Laocai – Cancau market (Saturday)
CanCau – BacHa: Picked up at Laocai Train Station to transfer to CanCau market. It takes more than 2 hours to get to CanCau – a small market situated in a valley surrounded by mountains and only 7 km from China. The market deeply shows the typical cultural features of the minorities in remote mountainous areas in Vietnam. Further more, you can enjoy seeing boys and girls in colourful costumes – different colours of the mountains. They attend the market in the hope of finding “the other halves of their lifves” and this is also the time for them to chat, to exchange everything among different ethnic peoples through cups of wine sold in the market. Say goodbye to the market and transfer to BacHa. On the way, spend time visiting a village of the Flower H’mong and then check in hotel in BacHa. Free to explore the town. Lunch in CanCau or in BacHa and dinner in BacHa. 
 
Day 2 (Sunday) : Visit Bacha market – Sapa  
A walk to BacHa market. Visit one village and an old building called The H’mong king’s house. Breakfast and the beginning of the day on which you visit a big market filled with many different hill-tribe peoples. This is the most colourful market in North Vietnam. At the market, you have chance to enjoy BacHa people’s simple but unique kinds of food with special wines made from rice, cassavas, corn and different sorts of fruits such as plumps, apples, peaches… talking to the minorities through the guide’s interpretation. Leave the market for the H’mong King’s house (King Hoang A Tuong) built by the French colonists and the Chinese in 1920. Return the town for lunch. In the afternoon, spend time visiting another village (BanPho village) Say good bye to BacHa and get back to Sapa. On the way back, drop in to see the Vietnamese and Chinese Harbour Mouth in LaoCai. Reach Sapa late in the afternoon. Check in sapa luxury hotel
Day 3 : Visit Sapa – Lao Cai – Ha Noi

 Breakfast, check out hotel at 10:00 AM. Get downhill by jeep to the valley then walk for 3 villages of the Black H’mong and the Dzay people. Lunch at a Dzay family. Get up to the road for a jeep back to Sapa. Then take bus to LaoCai Station for the night train to Hanoi. Dinner on the train. Arrive in Hanoi round 4:30 AM

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Tour price includes: 

• Full meals as mentioned on the tour program ( B = Breakfast, L = Lunch, D = Dinner )
• Local beer or soft drink at every lunch and dinner, ,
• English/French – speaking guide
• Entrance fees,
• Accommodation twin share
• Train return tickets Hanoi-Laocai (soft sleeper with air-conditioning – cabin of 4 persons )
• Private bus or jeep as tour program
  

Excludes :

• Insurance,
• Drinks,
• Phone calls and other private expenses,

Notes: Advised to take good walking shoes, raincoats, jackets, torch, insect repellent and sunscreen