Overview

This Sapa Trekking Tour for 3 days and 2 nights is an extended tour in the beautiful region of Sapa for tourists who want to immerse themselves in the delights of this mountainous area. Starting and finishing at Lao Cai Train Station, this is a group tour North Vietnam trekking through the heart of Sapa, its wonderful hill tribe villages, and the steeped rice paddies for which this region is famous.

Recommended by Tripadvisor, Incredible Asia Journeys provides everything you need for this 3-day trekking tour of Sapa - One of the best daily group tours in Vietnam. An English-speaking tour guide, all breakfasts and lunches, and all entrance fees are covered, while we give you a choice of whether to book a hotel yourself or let Incredible Asia Journeys do it for you.

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Places you’ll see

Lao Cai

Sapa

Highlights

Visit the villages of different hill tribes throughout Sapa and hear their stories.
See the remarkable landscape of Sapa; undulating fields of rice, sloping mountains and splendid waterfalls.
Eat the most delicious local food that hill tribe members use to fuel themselves for the day’s activities.
Take your time enjoying Sapa Town and its many attractions.

Itinerary

Activities: Have breakfast in Sapa Town, speak to locals at Cat Cat Village, visit Sin Chai Village, admire a waterfall and head back to Sapa Town.

After you arrive at Lao Cai Train Station, our shuttle bus will pick you up and transfer you to Sapa Town for breakfast.

We will meet the Black H’mong after a trek through the wooden gates of Cat Cat Village. We will speak to locals here about life with a constant, gorgeous backdrop before we move to the deep valley village of Sin Chai in the foothills of Vietnam’s highest point, Fansipan Peak.

As we watch the locals go about their daily business, we continue trekking to a gushing waterfall at the base of the valley. We will rest here for a bit before heading back to the bus driving back to Sapa Town.

We will savour lunch at a local restaurant before you have a free afternoon in Sapa Town to explore. Perhaps head to the Sapa market, visit the Notre Dame Cathedral or head to the top of neighbouring Ham Rong Mountain.

You will make your own arrangements for dinner before settling into your hotel for the first night of your Sapa Trekking Tour for 3 days and 2 nights.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Accommodation: The hotel in Sapa

Notes: The hotel in Sapa is optional.

Activities: Have breakfast in Sapa Town, trek up a mountain, get great photos of Muong Hoa Valley, eat lunch in Ta Van Village and head back to Sapa Town.

Start the day with breakfast in your hotel and then join the tour as we take a walk around the old villages of Sapa.

We pass the waterfall again as we snake up a mountain via a winding dirt road, with the higher vantage points gracing us with gorgeous views. After a trek along a narrow stream, Y Linh Ho Village comes into sight for us to rest and chat to the Black H'mong minority who live here.

As we descend into Muong Hoa Valley, Sapa’s most expansive rice fields will unfold in front of you. If you are lucky enough to be visiting between May and October, you will see the iconic green or golden rice of Sapa stretch out into the valley.

We continue from Lao Chai Village, home of the Black H’mong, to Ta Van village, owned by the Giay minority. You will have an unforgettable local lunch in a traditional Giay household before boarding the bus back to Sapa Town.

Have dinner at your leisure and spend the rest of the afternoon as you wish.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Accommodation: The hotel in Sapa

Notes: The hotel in Sapa is optional.

Activities: Have breakfast in Sapa Town, check out the tea plantations, trek the buffalo trails, eat a scenic picnic, shop for handicrafts and head back to Lao Cai Train Station.

Have your final breakfast in Sapa Town before we trek to Suoi Ho village and its wide tea plantations and cardamom gardens.

Walk down the trails used by buffaloes as we head to Ma Tra, another home of the friendly Black H’mong.

An outside picnic lunch will be served amid fantastic Sapa scenery. Afterwards, we browse traditional handicrafts of the Red Dao at Ta Phin Village. After you’ve bagged a souvenir, jump on the shuttle bus for the transfer back to Lao Cai Train Station.

Your Sapa Trekking Tour 3 days 2 nights ends, thank you for choosing Incredible Asia Journeys to show you this special destination!

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch