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. From here you will take 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 – Ban Moi - Ban Lech – Topas Ecolodge (B,L,D)
At 8h00, you commence your walk from Topas Ecolodge along the footpaths of Silver Stone Mount. During the walk you will witness the stunning views of the valleys and rice paddy terraces. At noon you will arrive at the Lech village, inhabited by the Red Dao minority. You will visit the village and have your lunch in a local house.
After lunch, you will continue the walk to a nearby Red Dao village. If it is a school day, a visit to the village’s school is the nice opportunity to meet all the children, who can be from Red Dao or Hmong minority, or are at different ages, but sharing the same class room. From the village, you will follow the hill trails up to the main road, enjoying the surrounding breath-taking view of dotted peaks, endless rice terraces and the beautiful Muong Bo river. You will arrive back to Topas Ecolodge after another 15 minute walk on the main road.
Dinner and overnight at Topas Ecolodge.
Approx: Grade: 3 of 5/ 5 hours walking/ 1 hour lunch.
Day 4: Topas Ecolodge - Sapa - Lao Cai (B, - , -)
The morning is at your leisure at Topas Ecolodge.
At 11h30 you will take the Topas Ecolodge Shuttle bus to Sapa. The afternoon is at your leisure to visit the town. At 17h30, you will take the shuttle bus to Lao Cai for the night train back to Hanoi.
Day 5: 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.
