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Tour
code: SPP-04 |
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Duration:
4 days/ 5 nights |
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Departure:
Every evening from Hanoi |
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Pick
up: At your hotel in Hanoi |
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Grade:
Hard |
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Description |
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trip is specialized for cycle lovers who wish challenging
on two wheels while exploring remote countryside for nature
beauty and people contact. From the very tourists’
popular Ta Phin Valley to seldom visited village of Ban
Hon or along Nam Na River to Chinese border, you will
be amazed by the country’s beauty as well as hospitality
of tribal peoples from different ethnic groups such as
Black H’mong, Red H’mong, Red Zao, Lu, Thai…
who are living their own fascinating ways of life. |
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ITINERARY |
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Night
1: Take overnight train from
Hanoi to Lao Cai
Please, be ready at your hotel lobby at 20.00 for a short
transfer to Hanoi railways station for taking the overnight
train (first class 4 beds cabin with air-condition) which
arrive in Lao Cai City, near the Chinese border next morning. |
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Day
1 // Sapa
// walking
Sapa’s Highlights and Cycling Ta Phin Valley |
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The
train arrives at Lao Cai station early at about 06.00,
meet your guide and driver as you check out and an hour
transfer uphill the Hoang Lien Son mountains to Sapa.
Great views of valleys and terraced rice fields along
the way.
After Breakfast your guide will show you around for a
brief introduction of this charming town. At the market,
ethnic minority people of different groups wearing their
traditional costumes made by themselves comes every day
selling local products includes vegetable, bamboo shoot,
mushroom, medicinal herbs and souvenirs…there are
chances for making acquaintance and taking photos.
Later you will follow the footsteps uphill to the top
of Ham Rong Mountain for over viewing beautiful scenery
of the town and surrounding area, paying visit to an orchard
garden and a mini museum which tells you a lot about ethnic
minority people living in Sapa and the northwest region.
The rest hours is at your leisure. |
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Breakfast and Lunch included, Dinner on your own |
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Accommodation: Hotel in Sapa |
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Day
2 // Sapa
// Tram
Ton Pass //
Binh Lu //
Hon Village |
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Breakfast
and check out your hotel for three days cycle trip to
explore the untouched region on the west side of Hoang
Lien Son range. Getting out of Sapa town you will challenge
you pedals uphill to conquer the height of Tram Ton Pass,
the top of Vietnam’s road at about 2,000m above
sea level where great view stretching under your wheels.
The 25km downhill will be full of fun with many stops
for breathtaking scenery. Reaching to Binh Lu town at
the centre of a lush valley you will enjoy visiting a
small market where the Red H’mong, Black Zao and
Lu peoples from nearby villages often come to sell vegetable
and fire wood before Lunch. Afternoon’s adventure
is cycling up and down hill a narrow road through an untouched
region, passing many villages of the Lu ethnic who still
dye their teeth black and wear very nice traditional costumes
and live in stilt houses. After fancying occasional stops
for visiting villages along the way you arrive in Ban
Hon, a large village of the Lu formed by nearly a hundred
houses built on stilt where we settle down for an overnight
home stay. |
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Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner included |
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Accommodation: Home Stay in Ban Hon Village |
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Day
3 // Hon
Village //
Tam Duong //
Pa So Village |
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After
Breakfast and spend an hour exploring the village, meeting
people and witnessing their every day life activities
we have to say good bye to the Lu people. your first portion
of cycle is easy along quiet and flat road for about 18km
passing lush rice fields, tea plantation and villages
with mountain back drops before reaching to Tam Duong,
the new central town of Lai Chau Province. Here we spend
about an hour to join the local peoples including some
Red H’mong and Zao at the market. Lunch is served
in a restaurant in Tam Duong. Continue cycle along the
motor way uphill to challenge another mountain pass for
about 25km, and then following the Nam Na River tributary
with visiting to Red H’mong and White Thai villages
before arriving to Paso, a newly built small town on the
bank of Nam Na River. Check in a pretty local hotel and
the rest of the day is on your own. |
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Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner included |
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Accommodation: Lan Anh Hotel, the only one in town |
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Day
4 // Exploring
the Untouched Region //
Overnight train to Hanoi |
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This
morning you will fancy a leisure cycle along a quiet country
road along Nam Na River to explore the untouched region
near the Chinese border. Visiting villages of the Red
H’mong and Thai peoples in the region, you have
chances to meet very friendly, witnessing their unchanged
way of life for hundred of years. Back to the hotel for
Lunch and a short break, you will check out and boarding
a van for driving all the way to Lao Cai Station for taking
the overnight train for Hanoi. Trip ends the next morning
as you arrive in Hanoi Station at about 06.00. |
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Breakfast, Lunch included. Dinner on your own |
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Overnight on the train in first class 4 beds cabin with
air-conditioning |
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Tour
Price per person in US Dollars |
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| Group
size |
2
persons |
3-6
persons |
7-10
persons |
Single
Surcharge |
| Standard
hotel |
338 |
316 |
267 |
25 |
| Superior
hotel |
351 |
329 |
280 |
37 |
| Upgrade
2 beds cabin |
50 |
50 |
50 |
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Tour
price includes |
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Accommodation: 1 night hotel in Sapa, 1 night home stay,
1 night hotel in Paso
• Return train tickets in 4 bed shared cabin with
A/C, tourist class
• Transfer and supported while cycling by private
vehicle for group as in detail itinerary
• Good mountain bicycle with helmet
• All meals indicated in the detail itinerary. Drinking
water and snack when cycling
• English speaking guide, visiting fee, government
permission, tax and service charge
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Tour
price excludes |
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Meals not indicated in day by day itinerary.
• Drinks and personal expenses.
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Contact
us to book this tour |
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Others
Sapa Cycling Options |
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Cycle
Ta Phin and Muong Hoa Valleys (SPP-01) |
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Discovery
Of Muong Hoa and Ban Ho Valleys (SPP-02) |
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Cycle
Fansipan's Westside (SPP-03) |
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Pedalling
The Remote Sapa's Northwest (SPP-04) |
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Others
Sapa Tours Catalogue |
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Sapa
Budget Tours |
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Sapa
Classic Trips |
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Sapa
Trekking and Adventure Tours |
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Sapa
Luxury Holidays |
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Traditional
Minority Markets Excursions |
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Northern
Mountain Discovery Packages |
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