Witness the perfect Vietnamese scene of Sapa unfold before your eyes on the Sapa Trekking 4-Day Tour with Train, leaving from and returning to Hanoi on the sleeper train. This tour allows you to eschew the logistics of transport and accommodation around the mountainous crown of Vietnam.
The Sapa Trekking 4-Day Tour by Train starts from Hanoi, arriving in Sapa in the early morning and immediately delving into this breathtaking land of limestone mountains, tiered rice paddies, thundering waterfalls, and the various ethnic minorities who call it all home.
Throughout the next three days, we trek along humble paths, over bridges, and through forests, taking stock in Sapa town and having a very special lunch with a native of the Giay hill tribe at their beautiful family home.
The Sapa Trekking 4-Day Tour with Train balances train and car travel as well as hiking to get the ultimate view of Sapa from every angle – truly an unmissable experience. Contact Incredible Asia Journeys now to secure your spots!
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Activities: Taking the night train from Hanoi to Lao Cai.
At 20:30, our guide will collect you from your hotel and escort you to the train station, making sure you are completely set for your journey before leaving you to enjoy the night train.
Activities: Visiting the Tram Tom Pass and its beautiful waterfall, before having lunch back in Sapa and trekking to the villages of Cat Cat and Y Linh Ho to learn about the Black H’mong ethnic minority.
Another guide will collect you from Lao Cai train station at 06:00 AM and take you to Sapa, roughly an hour away past splendid mountain scenery.
After checking into the hotel, we take a drive for 40 minutes to Vietnam’s highest mountain pass, the Tram Ton Pass, at about 2000m above sea level. Stunning vistas abound both above and below us here, of the dramatic mountains towering above the verdant greenery of Hoang Lien National Park below.
For 30 minutes, we will trek through a beautiful forest to the Love Waterfall, admiring the cascade of water before returning to Tram Ton and driving back to Sapa.
After lunch in Sapa town, we walk 3kms to Cat Cat village, which will give us an insight into the age-old traditions and rituals of the Black H’mong hill tribe. We can chat with them to learn about life in this most beautiful of areas before heading to a nearby waterfall for a break and photo opportunity.
Around the mountainside on a dirt trail, we experience more natural splendour while trekking along narrow rivers, ending in the village of Y Linh Ho, another bastion of Black H’mong culture. We will take a short rest at the Muong Hoa Stream before climbing back to the road and boarding the car to return to Sapa.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Notes: Make your own arrangements for dinner and stay overnight in Sapa town.
Activities: Driving through some of Sapa’s best scenery, having lunch at a Giay homestay, trekking through a bamboo forest and heading back to Sapa to enjoy your free time.
After breakfast at the hotel, the guide will drive you down a hillside road offering sweeping panoramas of undulating rice paddies running like treacle to the valley floor below. There are many ethnic minority-run stalls along the way where we can chat with people of the H’mong, Giay or Red Dao tribes.
We take a side road towards Lao Chai village, exploring briefly before beginning our trek to Ta Van, home of the Giay hill tribe. We will be eating lunch at a local homestay with a member of the Giay group and their family, giving us the perfect opportunity to hear about the unique customs of the Giay people while enjoying local food in a traditional wooden house.
Waving goodbye to our friendly Giay host, we trek up and down over mild hills and through a bamboo forest. Relaxing at the waterfall here is a serene experience, so we will take few minutes of rest before moving on to the village of Giang Ta Chai, an enclave of the vibrant Red Dao minority.
From here, the car will pick us up and take us back to Sapa, where you are free to enjoy the sites for the rest of the afternoon. Perhaps you would like to continue your trekking up the mild incline of the Ham Rong Mountain and around its gardens, or alternatively, take a walk around Sapa’s religious buildings, Mau Son Temple and Notre Dame Cathedral.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Notes: Make your own arrangements for dinner and stay overnight in Sapa town.
Activities: Watching the changing agricultural scene between villages and heading back to Lao Cai train station for the night train to Hanoi.
After your final breakfast, the guide will take you through the cardamom gardens and tea plantations of Suoi Ho village. We walk along tracks used for transporting buffalo and arrive in Ma Tra village, stopping for photos before pressing on and having a picnic lunch at a scenic spot.
We press on to the village of Ta Phin and its many Red Dao inhabitants. Take your last chance to get photos and souvenirs before we climb into the car and head directly to Lao Cai train station, where our guide will show you your night train back to Hanoi.
This concludes the Sapa Trekking 4 Day Tour with Train. We hope you enjoyed Sapa and will consider coming back with us at some point in the future!
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
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The extensive and gorgeous exterior of the Sapa Legend Hotel & Spa suggests just some of the opulence and comfort to be found within. This immaculately adorned hotel has grand marble and burnished wood running throughout, extending to the many rooms spanning four accommodation options. Along with warm decoration, each room is fitted with comfortable bedding, modern amenities such as air conditioning and TV, large windows and a very well appointed bathroom, ensuring an extremely pleasant stay in beautiful Sapa.In further pursuit of this aim, our restaurant and café encapsulate a luxurious atmosphere for your enjoyment of international and Vietnamese food and beverages. In addition, the Legend Spa provides an excellent means of relaxation and a space for tranquility in the bustling town. With one of the most central locations in all of Sapa town, you will find travelling around the area to be of the utmost ease and cafes and restaurants just beyond arms’ reach. Just to the left of the front doorstep is Sapa Lake and community garden, with Sapa Park just 300m away and Ham Rong Mountain 400m beyond that.
The glorious, skyscraping peaks of Sapa’s many mountains contain a majesty only matched in architectural equivalence by the Amazing Hotel Sapa. This 4-star hotel in beautiful Sapa town is located with one eye towards the mountains and steeped rice paddies, and another eye towards the bustling town. Our many mountain-view rooms offer perfect luxury accommodation, with contemporary amenities and comfortable furnishings, all placed to enhance your enjoyment of the stunning views around you. You will find a local flavour amongst the hill-tribe textiles employed in our rooms, but enjoy the convenience of modernity through sleek bathrooms with elaborate showers.Just a few minutes’ walk from Ham Rong Mountain and Gardens, Notre Dame Cathedral and central Sapa Lake, the Amazing Hotel Sapa is perfectly located for your total convenience. Restaurants and shops abound around the hotel, giving you the perfect chance to prepare for your hike or a fantastic excuse to relax after it.Aside from 81 stylish guest rooms and suites, the Amazing Hotel Sapa boasts a heated indoor swimming pool, beauty and spa services, fitness centre, an elegant restaurant and an exquisite bar, offering uninterrupted views of one of Vietnam’s greatest natural assets.
Set outside of the general bustle of Sapa town, Pao’s Sapa Leisure Hotel takes up an advantageous position atop the Muong Hoa Valley, offering stunning views to one of Vietnam’s most majestic natural scenes. Throughout our range of rooms, we ensure that your view of Sapa’s forest-clad limestone mountains, as well as the golden rice paddies that descend through the valley, is at the forefront of each well-appointed room’s design.From the Deluxe Room to Sapa’s most luxurious offering, Red Dao Suite, you will find comfortable furnishings in a modern room, with a focus through the wall-length windows and universal balconies to the scenery outside. 223 rooms in Pao’s Sapa Leisure Hotel are some of the most comfortable accommodation options throughout the town, and here you can discover the Sapa that suits you, through TVs, working desks, large bathrooms and palatial seating arrangements.The convenience of Sapa town lies just under 2km away and contains attractions such as Sapa Lake, Ham Rong Mountain and Notre Dame Cathedral. Stock up for your trek here before returning to Pao’s Sapa Leisure Hotel to ease into Sapa’s most magisterial accommodation.
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