2 Days Sapa Trekking Tour with Ethnic Minorities Discovery

Sapa Experience Trekking Tour – 2 Days you will be exploring Sapa and its beautiful southern valley for two days with a one-night homestay in Ta Van village of the Zay minority peoples. The trek from Sapa along Muong Hoa River, passing villages of the Hmong, Zay, and Zao will offer spectacular scenery and a lot of opportunities to get intact with local ethnic peoples for your new cultural discovery

Day 1: Lao Cai-Sapa-Y Linh Ho-Lao Chai-Ta Van ( L, D)

Pick you up from your hotel in Sapa and begin your exploration trip to Muong Hoa valley. You will follow the main road heading south for about an hour before turning right to a footpath downhill to Muong Hoa Valley. This part offers spectacular scenery of the highest part of Hoang Lien Son mountain range and on a nice day, Fansipan Peak can be seen. Crossing the river by a suspension bridge you will challenge your feet uphill to Y Linh Ho village. Here you will pay visiting to some Hmong families, watching them doing their daily work. After picnic Lunch, the trail continues up and downhill for about 2 hours as you reach Lao Chai, a large village of the Hmong, and then following the river bank to Ta Van of the Zay people. Paying to visit local homes, and village schools… you will enjoy your cultural discovery of local ethnic peoples as well as the breathtaking scenery of the Muong Hoa Valley. Settle down in Ta Van village for an overnight homestay.

•  Lunch and Dinner included

• Accommodation: Homestay in Ta Van Village

Day 2: Ta Van – Giang Ta Chai  Sapa  (B, L, D)

Leaving Ta van village after breakfast, you will take the trail uphill, passing the fascinating terraced rice fields and some small hamlets of the Hmong before getting through a bamboo forest to a waterfall, enjoy a break for magnificent scenery and then continue walking for half an hour to Giang Ta Chai village of the Red Zao peoples which sits on the top of a hill and looks down Muong Hoa river. After spending time visiting the village, making friends with the Zao, and experiencing the hospitality you will cross the river by another suspension bridge and then uphill again to Hau Thao village where you will pay to visit a local handicraft center where Hmong and Zao women gather for exchanging experience and skill of making handicrafts. A late Lunch will be prepared here nearby this center and then you have time to relax as well as get acquainted with local schoolboys, girls, and their teachers as well. Later a short drive will take you back to Sapa. End The Tour.

•  Breakfast and Lunch included

• Accommodation: None