Destinations: Hanoi – Sapa – Fansipan Mountain – Hanoi.
Duration: 4 Days
Day 1: Hanoi – Sapa – Cat Cat Village (L, G)
After an early breakfast at hotel, at 07:00, you’ll be picked up by Limousine bus to Sapa.
Arrival at around 12:30, you’ll have lunch and check-in your hotel. You’ll then depart from the hotel at 14:30 and walk down 3km to explore Cat Cat and Shin Chai village of H’mong, a colonial French discovered area and a renowned resort to officials from the early twentieth century.
Arriving to Cat Cat village, you’ll visit the Hydropower station, the waterfall of Cat Cat village as well as learn about the culture, customs and unique people here with traditional crafts such as weaving, carved silver, hand forged agricultural tools. After that you will walk back to Sapa. You’ll spend the night in Sapa.
Day 2: Sapa – Fansipan Mountain Trek with campming (B, L, D, G)
After breakfast, you will be picked up to Tram Ton Pass, the highest pass in Vietnam located at 2,100m above sea level. You’ll visit the Silver Waterfall en route. You’ll enjoy the wonderful scenery and then begin the strenuous trek to the peak. After around 6 hours of trekking off the beaten track through the primitive jungles, across the numerous small streams and bamboo forests, you will have climbed to about 2,200m, the point at which you pitch your tent, have dinner and spend your first night on the mountain.
Day 3: Fansipan Summit – Sapa (B, L, G)
You’ll have very early breakfast at the camp and then head for the summit by way of pine and yellow bamboo forests. After an arduous 4-hour climb, you will finally conquer the roof of Vietnam and Indochina. You’ll spend up to one hour enjoying breathtaking views of the splendid rolling mountains, the small villages of Lai Chau Province and the picturesque town of Sapa. After you have lunch, you will descend the mountain to Sin Chai Village of the Black H’mong. You will then be picked up to your hotel in Sapa. You’ll spend the night in Sapa.
Day 4: Sapa – Hanoi (B, DP)
Your time will be your own until you’re picked up by Limousine bus back to Hanoi. You’ll arrive at your hotel in Hanoi at around 20.30. End of services.
What’s included:
- Breakfast and accommodation sharing a double room and 1 night camping on the mountain.
- Pick-ups and transfers by private air-conditioned vehicle as specified in the itinerary above.
- Limousine bus: Hanoi – Sapa – Hanoi.
- Travel in an appropriate private air-conditioned vehicle with an experienced safe driver.
- The services of experienced English-speaking guides as indicated in the itinerary.
- Where necessary, entry fees for all visits as mentioned in the programme.
- Sleeping bag and rent for Fansipan Mountain trekking.
- Porters.
- Lunches and dinners (as specified in the itinerary) in local restaurants, and picnics where suitable restaurants are not available
What’s excluded:
- Other international flight tickets and airport tax.
- Visas
- Lunches and dinners, except as specified above.
- Drinks, tipping and personal expenses.
- Insurance.