Enjoy the sun set in village - in the afternoon

This is Muong Hoa valley, you will see many the rice terraces inside it

The rice terrace fields during the trekking

Take your nice pictures with horse and heart made by Hmong's womens

Some Hmong's women are wearing their traditional clothes and they might follow you

The panorama view of Ta Van, where you will meet both Black Hmong and Giay minorities

Enjoy the sunshine at homestay in Ta Van village with a cup of coffe or tea

You will be walking on the hanging bridge (in Muong Hoa river)

Enjoy the unique view of rice terrace fields in Y Linh Ho village

Take your unique photos with the beautiful landscape views

This is the rice paddies look like after harvested

Just take a lot of photos with great view of Muong Hoa valley

You will be seeing the local people are working in the rice fields

Rice terraces in Y Linh Ho village, Sapa, Vietnam

You might see some Hmong's womens are wearing their traditional clothes

Hmong's women are walking in the villages

The panorama view of Muong Hoa valley, Sapa, Vietnam

Here you will be seeing: Muong Hoa river, valleys, mountains, cloudy, rice fields, small house, corn fields

Small groups only.
Trekking offside the touristic paths.
Private guided visit to 3 different ethnic minorities villages in Sapa.
Adventurous mountain trekking up to 1.800 m above sea level.
Enjoy visiting the bamboo forests as well as Vietnam’s most famous rice terraces – ideal photo
shooting scenery.
Meeting the country’s most representative animals such as the water buffalo.
Real homestay with real, authentic local food.

In this tour, Trekkingtoursapa’s guide will take you to visit 5 different villages of the Hmong, Giay and Red Dao ethnic minorities. The tour will give you the chance to enjoy amazing mountain landscapes as well as to see Sapa’s biggest river and valley. You will also see the famous rice terrace fields and learn more about the culture, customs and traditions of the 3 main different ethnic minorities in Sapa. Our tour guide will also introduce you to Hmong’s unique marriage traditions, rice fields work and house building techniques and much more!

Itinerary

Day 01: Sapa – Cat Cat – Y Linh Ho – Lao Chai – Ta Van (15km or around 6.5 hours)

The tour starts at 9 am. Trekkingtoursapa’s guide will meet you at your hotel in Sapa town or in front of Sapa’s main church. After a short introduction, we will take you 2km down to Cat Cat, a very well-known village of the Hmong minority in Sapa. From there, we will reach the hanging bridge of Muong Hoa river and then continue uphill on a small trail into the mountains. You will walk alongside the bamboo forest on a faraway touristy area, which is not known by many people. From here you will get to see the biggest and most beautiful rice terrace fields in Vietnam (Muong Hoa Valley), enjoy the fresh air on top of the Hoang Lien mountain range and take some unique pictures of the landscape. Afterwards, you will head down to Y Linh Ho village and have lunch at a small restaurant run by a traditional Hmong family. After lunch, we will make our way to Ta Van, a village of Giay minority, where we will be welcomed by a Hmong family at their homestay. You will then have time to rest, take a hot shower and wait for your dinner.

Day 02: Ta Van – Giang Ta Chai – Sapa (12km around 5 hours)

Wake in the morning, enjoy a cup of coffee or tea and take a look outside the homestay, you will get to see the fantastic views across the rice terrace fields. After have breakfast, we will continue the trek uphill to the mountains by a small path in bamboo forest, here you will be immersing in spectacular views from mountains. We will then make our way down to waterfall of Giang Ta Chai Village. From here we will walk flat to the Red Dao area, here our tour guide will show you how different between 3 ethnic minorities and learn more their cultures and daily life. After visit Red Dao Home, we will continue the trek back to the other section waterfall, across a hanging bridge and then have lunch at a restaurant of Hmong minority in Giang Ta Chai village. After had lunch, our bus will pick us on the main road back to Sapa town.