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Tour
code: SPT-07 |
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Duration:
5 days and 6 nights |
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Departure:
Every evening from Hanoi |
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Pick
up: At your hotel |
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Grade:
Very Hard |
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Description |
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This
option takes 3 days and 2 nights to conquer Fansipan
Mount, offers more chances for discovering wild life
and help to avoid trekking the same way back which may
cause bores. On the other hand it yields chances to
explore some remote and isolated hamlets of the Black
H’mong along the way back. Feeling of success
pluses great view from the top of the Mount is an excellent
award to your sacrifices. |
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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 // Lao
Cai // Sapa
Highlights |
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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! 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 to get intact
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 tell
you a lot about ethnic minority people living in Sa Pa
and the northwest region. Later in the afternoon, you
may wish to drop in a local terraced café to enjoy
your self as the cloud comes and goes. |
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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 //
2,900m Mount camping |
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Take
a jeep transfer 18 km via Silver Water Fall to Tram Ton
Pass at 1,900m. From here trek through thick tropical
jungle, passing some isolated Black H’mong hamlets.
Stop for Lunch at a nice sport with great view of the
west side area.
Continue through the thick jungle, the trail gets narrower
and steeper. Some part is really slippery and dangerous
but the nature get wilder and wilder. We reach to the
top of a mountain at 2,900m where our camp will be set
for staying overnight. |
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Breakfast and Lunch and Dinner included |
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Accommodation: Overnight in tent |
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Day
3 // Mount
2,900m camp //
Fansipan Mount //
Mount 2,700m camp |
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Wake
up and Breakfast, we follow a narrow trail passing through
forest and bamboo bushes, which get smaller and shorter
as we approaching to the peak. After 2 hours challenging
up the steep path, you will reach to the top Fansipan
Mount. Congratulation! Staying here to enjoy your success
as well as great view of a ever green scenery stretching
under your feet.
The way back, of course less hard but still dangerous.
Arriving back to the 2,900m camp at noon, we have long
break for Lunch and recovery.
Most of the trail in the afternoon takes you downhill
but very dangerous because many part of the trail is just
a narrow track on the steep side of the mountains. Late
afternoon, We station at a nice sport on the top of a
2,700m mount, put up our camp, cook our Dinner and stay
overnight. |
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Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner included |
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Accommodation: Overnight in tent |
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Day
4 // Mount
2,700m camp //
Sin Chai Village //
Sapa |
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Waking
up in the freshness and pureness of wild nature, enjoy
breakfast. The trail today is less tough and go through
a well protected area of the Hoang Lien Son nature reservation,
one of the wildest part, rich in plantation and wildlife.
After Lunch at a nice sport, we continue down hill to
Sin Chai Village where we spend an hour visiting this
pretty Black H’mong village before transferring
by car to Sapa. |
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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
5 // Full
day at your leisure //
Overnight train back to Hanoi |
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Today
is set at your leisure in Sapa but be kindly notice that
your hotel room is not booked for late check out. Pick
up and transfer down hill to Lao Cai for taking overnight
train to Hanoi. |
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Breakfast and Lunch included. Dinner on your own |
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Overnight on the train in first class 4 bed cabin with
air-conditioning |
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Tour
Price per person in US Dollars |
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size |
2
persons |
3-6
persons |
7-10
persons |
Single
Surcharge |
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hotel |
350 |
317 |
273 |
25 |
| Superior
hotel |
379 |
345 |
305 |
45 |
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2 bed cabin |
50 |
50 |
50 |
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Chidren Policy |
Under
6 free, from 7 to 11 charge 75 %, 12 years and above
pay for adult price |
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Tour
price includes |
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Transfer with private car and jeep as indicated in day
by day itinerary.
• Return train tickets basing on first class 4 bed
cabin with air-conditioning.
• Accommodation: 2 nights hotel in Sapa, 2 nights
in tent.
• All meals as listed in day by day itinerary.
• Drinking water is included for 2 days trekking.
• Visiting fee and English speaking guide.
• Porters for carrying food, drinking water, luggage…
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Tour
price excludes |
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Meals and drinks not indicated in day by day itinerary
• Drinks and personal expenses
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Things
to bring |
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Comfortable trekking shoes
• Sun Block and wide brim hat
• Rain gear and warm clothes
• Insect repellent
• Original Passport
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Contact
us to book this tour |
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Others
Sapa Trekking and Adventure Tours |
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The
Spectacular Muong Hoa Valley (SPT-01) |
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Explore
Muong Hoa Valley (SPT-02) |
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Tribal
Life In Sapa's Remote Villages (SPT-03) |
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A
Discovery Along Muong Hoa River (SPT-04) |
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The
Hidden Part Of Sapa (SPT-05) |
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A
Short Trek Of Sapa and Fansipan (SPT-06) |
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Escape
Of Sapa and Fansipan (SPT-07) |
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Sapa
and Fansipan Exploration (SPT-08) |
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Sapa
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