This 3-day 4-night tour is a perfect combination of trek and visiting the hill tribes’ villages at an easy pace, stay home and travel away from the crowds. It is simply an unforgettable soft adventure to Sapa offered probably only by Adong hotel.

Itinerary in detail:

Night 1: Transfer from hotel to Hanoi station for boarding the train at 8.30 pm, You will be sharing cabins of AC soft sleepers with 3 other passengers to travel up Lao Cai town.

Day 1: Lao Cai – Sapa, trek to Ta Phin (~ 4 hours)
The train arrives in Lao Cai at 6.30 a.m, our driver or tour guide with the sign of your name will welcome you. On a van, we ride to Sapa in about 1,5 hours, you will be taken to a small guesthouse for a morning showers then your breakfast at a local restaurant here. We will get a short ride from Sapa to our trekking base, we start here and will trek through the villages of Hmong, chances to meet the locals working on the mountainsides or the rice terraces. We will break for a picnic lunch en route, keep trekking to Ta Phin village of the Dao people where you will be warmly welcomed by the host, share the dinner with them, and stay at their traditional house. (B,L,D)

Day 2: More trek and back to Sapa
At the first of gleam of daylight, you will see the locals here start working early, you can join them at some of their activities, like feeding the animals; cleaning their houses, garden or preparing breakfast…After today’s breakfast, we will be trekking down hills on a valley route and back up hill to a main road (~4 hours). Alternatively, for this long trek, you can do it at your own pace to do some light walk this morning in about 1 hour, results more time to be with the host family and other locals in the villages. For both options, you will be supported with our jeep back to Sapa (30 min). Our late lunch served here in Sapa town and you will have this afternoon relaxing in town. Overnight in hotel in town. (B,L)

Day 3: Sapa and night train to Hanoi

Today you are free at leisure, to visit around the town of Sapa (Dragon mount, Orchid garden, Waterfall…) or relax in town and inhale the fresh air. Leave Sapa by jeep in the late afternoon (5.30 p.m.) to Lao Cai station for our night train back to Hanoi. Departs Lao Cai at 8.50 p.m and arrives after your sound sleep on the first class of Ac soft berth into Hanoi by 4.30 a.m. Please find your own way back to your hotel, taxi normally costs you around USD4.00. (B)

Included: Transfers, Ac soft sleeper train, E.S. guide, admission fees, homestay, meals as specified, hotels: Standard (Sapa Bamboo & Goldsea hotel); Superior (Chau Long & Sapa hotel); Deluxe (Victoric  hotel)