Day 1: Hanoi - night train to Lao Cai
You will take the night train from Hanoi Station to Lao Cai.
Day 2: Full day walking - Topas Ecolodge (B, L, D)
The train arrives at Lao Cai station approx at 05h30. Here you will take the Topas Shuttle bus to Sapa, where you enjoy your breakfast at a local restaurant.
At 9h00, you will commence your journey from Sapa by car to Lao Chai village, a Black Hmong ethnic minority village. You will then be able to walk from Lao Chai to Ta Van village where the Giay ethnic minority hill tribe lives. Here you will be able to rest and enjoy a delicious lunch prepared by your guide in a local house. After lunch the walk continues through a bamboo forest to Giang Ta Chai; a Red Dao ethnic minority village. After taking a rest near a waterfall to refresh, you start climbing uphill to a road where the car is waiting to transfer you to Topas Ecolodge. You check in to your bungalow and enjoy the view into the valley and dotted mountain surroundings.
Approx: Grade 2 of 5/ 1 hour driving/ 4 hours walking/ 1 hour lunch.
Day 3: Topas Ecolodge - hiking to Lech Dao village - Sapa - Lao Cai (B, L, -)
After having breakfast, you are going to visit the Lech village of Red Dao minority. You will follow the road for a while before descending towards a river. Going through rice paddy terraces gives you many opportunities to enjoy the magnificent valley view. You cross the river by a bridge made of stone and then follow a trail going up to the village. You will be able to spend some time at the village to experience daily life, and learn how minorities women embroidery. From the village, you head back to the Lodge for lunch.
At 16h30 you will take the Topas Ecolodge shuttle bus to Sapa.
At 17h30, you will take the shuttle bus to Lao Cai for the night train back to Hanoi.
Day 4: Arrival in Hanoi
The train will arrive in Hanoi around 4h30 am. End of trip.
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Topas Ecolodge is located 18 km from Sapa, deep in the Hoang Lien Mountains. The 25 bungalows overlook the entire valley with the ethnic minority villages of Ban Ho and Thanh Phu, 400 altitude meters below you. This package has been designed to give you the walking trip to the Ethnic Minority villages living along the Muong Hoa Valley, as well as having the opportunity to enjoy the best possibility in the north of Vietnam: to explore the deep valleys, breathtaking mountains and ethnic communities of this unspoiled corner of Vietnam.
