Can Cau Market, Bac Ha Market – 2 days

Night 1: Hanoi – Lao Cai

8:00 pm – Mini bus pick up from hotel and transfer to Tran Quy Cap train station.
9:00 pm – Train depart and sleep the nights on train. Travel time approx 9 hrs.

Day 1: (Saturday) – Can Cau – Bac Ha (B,L,D)

Picked up at Laocai Train Station to transfer to CanCau market. It takes more than 2 hours to get to CanCau – a small market situated in a valley surrounded by mountains and only 7 km from China. The market deeply shows the typical cultural features of the minorities in remote mountainous areas in Vietnam. Further more, you can enjoy seeing boys and girls in colourful costumes – different colours of the mountains. They attend the market in the hope of finding “the other halves of their lifves” and this is also the time for them to chat, to exchange everything among different ethnic peoples through cups of wine sold in the market and have lunch there. Say goodbye to the market and transfer to BacHa. On the way, spend time visiting a village of the Flower H’mong and then check in hotel in Bac Ha. Free to explore the town. and have dinner in BacHa.

Day 2: (Sunday) – Visit Bac Ha market – Sapa town or Lao Cai station (B,L,D)

Visit one village and an old building called The H’mong king’s house. Breakfast and the beginning of the day on which you visit a big market filled with many different hill-tribe peoples. This is the most colourful market in North Vietnam. At the market, you have chance to enjoy Bac Ha people’s simple but unique kinds of food with special wines made from rice, cassavas, corn and different sorts of fruits such as plumps, apples, peaches… talking to the minorities through the guide’s interpretation. Leave the market for the H’mong King’s house (King Hoang A Tuong) built by the French colonists and the Chinese in 1920. Return the town for lunch. In the afternoon, spend time visiting another village (BanPho village) Say good bye to BacHa and get back to Sapa. On the way back, drop in to see the Vietnamese and Chinese border in LaoCai. Reach Sapa late in the afternoon or back to Station for the train to Ha Noi, Check in hotel in Hanoi.

Night 3: Back to Hanoi

On a night train back to Hanoi. Arrival in Hanoi at 5.00AM

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