Trekking tour Sapa with Hmong's women

Red Dao ethnic minority

The First night, we will be staying at the Hmong's homestay

The bathroom of Hmong homestay in Ta Van village

Enjoy a cup of coffee and take a look out side the mountain views and rice fields

Muong Hoa valley

Lao Chai village

The panorama view of rice terrace fields (Muong Hoa valley)

Muong Hoa river

You might see some Black Hmong women are wearing their traditional clothes

Enjoy the sun set in the villages

The green rice terraced fields in Y Linh Ho village

The villagers are working in the rice fields

This is the rice fields looks like after harvested

The beautifull landscape of rice fields( in Ta Van village)

The rice fields of Y Linh Ho village

The Muong Hoa river, here you can see the rice fields and bamboo inside the river

Take your photo with mountain views

take your photo in rice terraced fields

The panorama view of Muong Hoa valley

Enjoy your day with the beautiful landscape

Mountain view from the homestay

You might see some local childrens are looking buffalos

This is the rice fields looks like after harvested

In Lao Chai village, this is homes to the Black Hmong

Trekking up to the mountain on the second day

The panorama view of Ban Ho village

Small groups only
Trekking offside the touristic paths
Private guided visit to 4 different ethnic minorities villages in Sapa
Adventurous mountain trekking up to 1.850 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 8 different villages of the Hmong, Giay, Tay 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 4 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 – Su Pan – Ban Ho (17km around 6.5 hours)

In the morning at 9:30am. After have breakfast at the homestay, we will do the trekking on a small path (inside the bamboo forest) uphill to the Hoang Lien Son mountain range - high around 1.850m above level sea, where you will get to see the panorama views of Muong Hoa valley and see to the beautiful landscape of rice terrace fields as well as to see all of villages in the Muong Hoa valley. We will then be making our way downhill to the Giang Ta Chai waterfall (faraway touristy area, non-touristy) Where you will enjoy the stream’s babble and jungle’s sounds. After take a short rest, we will continue the trekking to homes of the Red Dao minority are, a small hamlet of Giang Ta Chai village, here our guide will show you different between the 3 ethnic minorities in Sapa. After a visit Red Dao Homes, we will continue our way to the Su Pan village and have lunch at a local restaurant. After lunch, we will make our way to Su Pan, a village of Black Hmong minority. And then continue walking to the Ban Ho village, where you will meet 3 ethnic minorities such as Red Dao, Tay and Black Hmong. We will be welcoming by a Tay family and check in at their family. You will then have time to rest, take a hot shower and wait for your dinner.

Day 2: Ban Ho – Nam Tong – Sapa (3km around 3 hours)

After a nice breakfast in Ban Ho we continue walking to the village Nam Toong, about 3km from Ban Ho. In this village you can learn everything about the Red Dzao minority that lives here. The Red Dzao are famous for the red scarfs they wear on their head. After visiting Nam Toong we walk back to Ban Ho, where we will have lunch. After lunch transportation will be waiting for you to bring you back to Sapa. End of the tour.