Early breakfast at your hotel then meet your guide for bus transfer from Hanoi to your lodge in Sapa. The transfer time is around 5 hours to Thanh Phu Bridge and then a short transfer to Nam Cang village where you will check in your private room at Topas Riverside Lodge. Nam Cang locates at the most remote area in Sapa where the Red Dao minority lives who are very skilled at herbal bath, plant medicine and embroidery

Your lunch is served at the lodge then accompanied by your guide, you will explore around the village and learn how the local villagers make writing paper from rice, silver jewelry or embroidery.
Back at the lodge you may want to try a special herbal bath. The herbal bath made from many different herbs collected by Red Dao lady in the jungle, located just behind the Lodge.
Your dinner is served at the Lodge with warmly atmosphere. 

 

Enjoy a full breakfast for a full energy before starting your full hiking days to ethic villages around the lodge: a small Blue H’mong village where the villagers are mostly living in the deepest part of Sapa valley and on the other side of Hoang Lien Mountain Range; the Red Dao village of Nam Nhiu etc. You will admire high mountains, waterfalls, deep valley, rice terraces while hikking thru small dirt trails and walking on quite roads. 

 

Breakfast at the lodge then meet your guide again for a walk to the jungle to explore the beauty of nature, meet and chat with locals to know more about their daily life, listen to the sound of nature and birds before reaching a river where you will stop for relax and deep your feet into the cool water for natural refresh. You will spend some more time to explore the surrounding before going back to the lodge on the same route. 

Arrive back at Topas Riverside Lodge, you may want to take a swim in the river before enjoying your lunch. 

Check out and then transfer to Bac Ha Town for another night at hotel. The transfer is around 2.5-3 hours. Check in your hotel then have a short rest before walking to visit Hoang A Tuong Palace – the H’mong King house which was built by the French colonist and the Chinese in 1920. Free time at leisure to explore the town on your own. 

Dinner and overnight at hotel.

 

Breakfast at hotel then check out. If your date drops on Sunday, you could spend your time to visit Bac Ha Market and see how the locals sell and buy their goods. Continue your trip for transfer to Ban Pho Village to visit the Mong village and learn about their traditional specialty: the Corn wine. Have a walk around the village before meet your driver again for transfer to Panhou Ecolodge when you will spend your 4th night there. 

A full free afternoon and evening to relax for your full day hiking on the next day.

 

Today is a long day trek up to the Long Tunic, This is a small village of Dzao people.

After breakfast at Pan Hou, we will meet the local guide who will be taken care of us for 2 days trek and start to Long Tunic village. It takes us 5 hours for the trek. 

Going on the trail and passing the rice field. We will have a great view from the top of the mountain to valley. 

Lunch will be served at Dzao family. The owner of this family welcomes you with the traditional drink they called HAPPY WATER.

 In the afternoon, your trail will be for 2 hours to the village where we will overnight.

The local guide will ask you to help him to prepare the dinner. By this activity, you can learn how to cook some similar food of Vietnam. 

You can enjoy what you cook at the dinner.

Today we overnight at the homestay.

 

You will be wake up by the cock, and the sound of a pig. Normally the local people wake up early. But this is an experience of this tour to you. Because you will have time to watch the simple life of these people.

Breakfast will be served with pancakes, coffee, and some fruit.

After saying goodbye to the family we continue on the trail to another village, we will spend 3 hours to come here.

You relax and lunch will cook by the family and local guide of us. We will stay in this village for 2 hours for lunch.

You will finish the trekking trip at Pan Hou this afternoon, say thank you with a local guide. Take your time to relax. Dinner and overnight in Pan Hou Ecolodge.

 

You have breakfast at Pan Hou then, leave for Hanoi city. You will have lunch on the way. The long but awesome trip ends at your own hotel in Hanoi in the afternoon!