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		<title>Sapa Vietnam Trekking Tour 3 days &#8211; Ban Ho – Thanh Phu &#8211; Sin Chai &#8211; Ben Den</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The trip takes you to one of the most remote area where you can meet very friendly locals. The night you spend in bamboo hut built by Topas in the hilly ground of a Red Dao family will be a good experience. The trip also offers you opportunity to enjoy wonderful scenery, which is still well protected as well as meet Xa Pho minority, the unique nomad in Northern Viet Nam.</p>
<p><strong>Itinerary:</strong></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Day 1: Sapa &#8211; Ban Ho – Nam Toong &#8211; My Son &#8211; Thanh Phu</span></p>
<p>Met up with <a title="Lotussia Travel" href="http://www.lotussiatravel.com/">Lotussia Travel</a> team at your hotel in Sapa. You will travel by car to Su Pan from where you will commence your walk downhill through the breathtaking scenery. On the way you will pass through the Ban Ho village where you will be able to witness the stunning views of the valley and rice paddy terraces. You will have the opportunity to explore the Ban Ho village of Tay minority before crossing the suspension bridge over the river. The walk then continues uphill to the Red Dao minority village of Nam Toong, where you guide will prepare a delicious lunch either in local school.</p>
<p>After lunchtime, you descend to the valley where locates My Son village of Xa Pho minority, one of the smallest groups ethnic in Northern Vietnam. From there you take a short walk to Thanh Phu village of Tay minority. Here you spend the night in traditional house of the Tay. You can take a walk to explore local daily life while your dinner will be served with Vietnamese dishes.</p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Day 2: Thanh Phu  &#8211; Nam Cum – Sin Chai</span></p>
<p>Today’s trek will be relatively short and soft. Once leaving Thanh Phu, you follow the trekking route built in the bottom of the valley, which offers the best view to the surrounding mountains. You stop at a nice spot for lunch.</p>
<p>After lunchtime, you continue the walk toward Sin Chai village of Red Dao minority where the night will be spent in bamboo huts. The wonderful hospitable atmosphere of the Red Dao will attract you.</p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Day 3: Sin Chai – Nam Ket – Ben Den – Lao Cai</span></p>
<p>After good nights sleep in bamboo hut, you wake up for an early breakfast and repack your luggage for the long trek heading toward Lao Cai.</p>
<p>Once you leave Sin Chai, the trip takes you into a fabulously mountainous area, the most remote part of Sapa. En route you meet children’ curious eyes as you are very first tourists passing by. Red Dao ethnic minority inhabits the entire area. You will enjoy the fresh of bamboo forest and jungle until you make a stop at Nam Ket for lunch.</p>
<p>After lunch, your trek will be mostly downhill. After about half an hour, you will have an opportunity to enjoy one of the most beautiful views of days over a green valley lying along the Red River. You eventually arrive in Ta Thang village of Tay minority. Here you will be transferred by car to Lao Cai. End trip.</p>


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		<title>Muong Hoa Valley Trek 3 days &#8211; Sapa &#8211; Vietnam</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On this trip you will trek along Muong Hoa River sneaking through the valley nearby Sapa town, which is surrounded by huge rice paddy terraces. On the way you will learn more about the different process of making rice field to the rice is on the dinner table. The night you spend in Tavan village, the unique village in Sapa area where Giay minority live, will be an excellent experience.<br />
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Itinerary:</strong></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Day 1: Sapa – Sin Chai – Cat Cat – Y Linh Ho </span></p>
<p>Met up at your hotel in Sapa by <a title="Lotussia Travel" href="http://www.lotussiatravel.com/">Lotussia Travel</a> team. Then travel by car mostly downhill toward Sin Chai village of Black Hmong minority, which locates right at the foot of Hoang Lien mountain range. Here you start heading up the mountain. Once you get to the top, you will trek on a small trail with spectacular view and then gradually descend to Cat Cat village, where you will have lunch nearby a waterfall.</p>
<p>In the after noon, you take a trail sneaking through mountain. You also will enjoy spectacular scenery while walking along a narrow river you eventually arrive in Y Linh Ho village of Black Hmong minority, where you can take a rest in a nice spot nearby the beautiful river. You will stay overnight in Y Linh Ho, due to season it can be in local house or in tent camp.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Day 2: Y Linh Ho &#8211; Lao Chai – Tavan </span></p>
<p>Today’s trek will continue along Hoang Lien mountain range, which offers you many opportunities to enjoy view over huge rice paddy terraces in Muong Hoa valley, the largest one in the area.</p>
<p>After having lunch at a nice spot, you descend into the bottom of the valley. You will pass through Lao Chai village of Black Hmong minority and then Tavan village of Giay minority by following a very popular trekking route. You spend the night in a traditional house of Giay minority. You will be able to take a walk to enjoy the valley view as well as swim in the river nearby.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Day 3: Tavan &#8211; Giang Ta Chai &#8211; Su Pan</span></p>
<p>Today’s trek is short, but still the landscape is beautiful. Once you get energy for your last day trek after having breakfast, you leave for Giang Ta Chai village where you can take a rest nearby a waterfall to enjoy the surroundings. You will continue trough a bamboo forest, and when you have passed the forest we find a nice place to enjoy lunch.<br />
After lunch the walk continues through a bamboo forest to Giang Ta Chai, a Red Dao ethnic minority village. After taking a rest nearby a waterfall to refresh, you continue on a small trail towards Supan where your transfer back to Sapa is waiting.</p>


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		<title>Sapa hill tribe villages trekking 2 days &#8211; Ban Ho &#8211; Thanh Phu &#8211; Sin Chai</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Visiting different minority ethnic groups who live in remote area; Spending a night in a bamboo hut of a Red Dzao family; enjoy beautiful scenery along the trip. Itinerary: Day 1: Sapa &#8211; Ban Ho &#8211; Thanh Phu &#8211; Sin Chai Met up at your hotel in Sapa by Lotussia Travel team then transferred to [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Visiting different minority ethnic groups who live in remote area; Spending a night in a bamboo hut of a Red Dzao family; enjoy beautiful scenery along the trip.</p>
<p><strong>Itinerary:</strong></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Day 1: Sapa &#8211; Ban Ho &#8211; Thanh Phu &#8211; Sin Chai </span></p>
<p>Met up at your hotel in Sapa by <a title="Lotussia Travel" href="http://www.lotussiatravel.com/">Lotussia Travel</a> team then transferred to Ban Ho. We will trek through the scenic  valley of “Ban Ho”. This is a village of Tay ethnic minority. The Tay preserve a traditional and fairly developed agriculture with cultivation of all kinds of plants including rice, maize and sweet potato as well as seasonable fruit and vegetables. Then we continue walking to Thanh Phu village where your lunch will be provided in a local house.</p>
<p>After lunchtime, you head to Sin Chai village. This is a village of of Red Dao people. Dinner and overnight at the village.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Day 2: Sin Chai – Ben Den – Lao Cai </span></p>
<p>After breakfast, we will start our day with a long trek towards Lao Cai. The route from Sin Chai, one of the most remote area in Sapa offers beautiful scenery and landscape. The trek will take us through rice paddy fields, bamboo forest, old trees jungle.</p>
<p>Your lunch will be provided at Nam Ket.</p>
<p>After lunch, we will trek downhill. Upon arriving in Ta Thang village, a Tay village we will be greeted again by our driver who transfer us then to Laocai station for our journey back to Hanoi. End.</p>


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		<title>One day hike to Sapa hill tribe villages &#8211; Cat Cat &#8211; Lao Chai &#8211; Ta Van</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Highlights:</strong></p>
<p>You will have a trek through beautiful landscape surrounded by rice paddy terraces and mountains covered by rain forest under the protection of Hoang Lien National Park. Also you will hear about the life style and tradition of Back Hmong and Giay minorities.</p>
<p><strong>Itinerary:</strong></p>
<p>Met up at your hotel in Sapa by <a title="Lotussia Travel" href="http://www.lotussiatravel.com/">Lotussia Travel</a> team. Then you first sneak through the Sapa market and leave the busy town behind. After a couple of minutes, you follow a road going downhill to Cat Cat village. You will stop by a waterfall and a hydroelectric station for a while before continuing the trek on a dirt trail through rice paddy terraces. You also will enjoy spectacular scenery while walking along a narrow river.</p>
<p>You eventually arrive in Y Linh Ho village of Black Hmong minority, where you can take a rest while you are served lunch nearby the river.</p>
<p>After lunch, you head toward Muong Hoa valley. You will pass through Lao Chai village of Black Hmong minority and then Tavan village of Giay minority by following a very popular trekking route.</p>
<p>You will return Sapa from Tavan by car around late afternoon. End trip.</p>


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		<title>Full day Trek to Mong Sen and Ta Phin villages &#8211; Sapa</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:23:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Highlights: Trekking through beautiful landscape and rice paddy fields; Visiting Black Hmong and Red Dao ethnic minority people who live in the same village; Talking with them to know about their typical culture. Itinerary: Met up  at your hotel in Sapa by Lotussia Travel guide and driver then travel by car downhill to Mong Sen [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Highlights:</strong></p>
<p>Trekking through beautiful landscape and rice paddy fields; Visiting Black Hmong and Red Dao ethnic minority people who live in the same village; Talking with them to know about their typical culture.</p>
<p><strong>Itinerary:</strong></p>
<p>Met up  at your hotel in Sapa by <a title="Lotussia Travel" href="http://www.lotussiatravel.com/">Lotussia Travel</a> guide and driver then travel by car downhill to Mong Sen where we starting a dirt trail through rice fields and villages. Enjoy spectacular view along the way.</p>
<p>Your picnic lunch will be provided on spot.</p>
<p>After lunch, we continue our trek downhill towards Taphin village inhabited by ed Dao and Black Hmong minorities. These are two largest ethnic groups living in Sapa area. Stop by some house to meet local people and talk with them to understand their culture, customs and traditions.</p>
<p>Late afternoon, we will trek back to to main road to get on our vehicle for the journey back to Sapa. End tour.</p>


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		<title>Sapa Walking Tour Half Day &#8211; Silver Waterfall and Heavens Gate</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:27:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Highlights: Experience the daily life of Vietnamese people in the suburb of Sapa town and enjoy the beautiful landscape, fantastic view from Heavens gate. Itinerary: Met up at your hotel at around 8AM by Lotussia Travel guide and driver then depart for the Silver Waterfall. The Silver Waterfall is located about a half hour from [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Highlights:</strong></p>
<p>Experience the daily life of Vietnamese people in the suburb of Sapa town and enjoy the beautiful landscape, fantastic view from Heavens gate.</p>
<p><strong>Itinerary:</strong></p>
<p>Met up at your hotel at around 8AM by <a title="Lotussia Travel" href="http://www.lotussiatravel.com/">Lotussia Travel</a> guide and driver then depart for the Silver Waterfall. The Silver Waterfall is located about a half hour from Sapa town which offers stunning views over surrounding mountains and lush forests belonging to Hoang Lien National Park.</p>
<p>You are advised to stop by a farm for a cup of tea and talk with people to understand their local life.</p>
<p>Then we continue our drive uphill to the Heavens Gate, the highest stretch of road in Vietnam as well as the provincial border of Lao Cai and Lai Chau provinces. Enjoy fantastic view over the valley!</p>
<p>Back to your hotel in Sapa around noon. End trip.</p>


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		<title>Trekking Sapa Vietnam</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The trip takes you to one of the most remote area where you can meet very friendly locals. The night you spend in bamboo hut built by Topas in the hilly ground of a Red Dao family will be a good experience. The trip also offers you opportunity to enjoy wonderful scenery, which is still well protected as well as meet Xa Pho minority, the unique nomad in Northern Viet Nam.</p>
<p>Itinerary:</p>
<p><strong>Day 1: Sapa &#8211; Ban Ho – Nam Toong &#8211; My Son &#8211; Thanh Phu </strong></p>
<p>You will travel by car to Su Pan from where you will commence your walk downhill through the breathtaking scenery. On the way you will pass through the Ban Ho village where you will be able to witness the stunning views of the valley and rice paddy terraces. You will have the opportunity to explore the Ban Ho village of Tay minority before crossing the suspension bridge over the river. The walk then continues uphill to the Red Dao minority village of Nam Toong, where you guide will prepare a delicious lunch either in local school. After lunchtime, you descend to the valley where locates My Son village of Xa Pho minority, one of the smallest groups ethnic in Northern Vietnam. From there you take a short walk to Thanh Phu village of Tay minority. Here you spend the night in traditional house of the Tay. You can take a walk to explore local daily life while your dinner will be served with Vietnamese dishes.</p>
<p>Trekking: Approx 5 hours.</p>
<p><strong>Day 2: Thanh Phu  &#8211; Nam Cum – Sin Chai </strong></p>
<p>Today’s trek will be relatively short and soft. Once leaving Thanh Phu, you follow the trekking route built in the bottom of the valley, which offers the best view to the surrounding mountains. You stop at a nice spot for lunch. After lunchtime, you continue the walk toward Sin Chai village of Red Dao minority where the night will be spent in bamboo huts. The wonderful hospitable atmosphere of the Red Dao will attract you.</p>
<p>Trekking: Approx 3 hours.</p>
<p><strong>Day 3: Sin Chai – Nam Ket – Ben Den – Lao Cai </strong></p>
<p>After good nights sleep in bamboo hut, you wake up for an early breakfast and repack your luggage for the long trek heading toward Lao Cai. Once you leave Sin Chai, the trip takes you into a fabulously mountainous area, the most remote part of Sapa. En route you meet children’ curious eyes as you are very first tourists passing by. Red Dao ethnic minority inhabits the entire area. You will enjoy the fresh of bamboo forest and jungle until you make a stop at Nam Ket for lunch. After lunch, your trek will be mostly downhill. After about half an hour, you will have an opportunity to enjoy one of the most beautiful views of days over a green valley lying along the Red River. You eventually arrive in Ta Thang village of Tay minority. Here you will be transferred by car to Lao Cai.</p>
<p>Trekking: Approx 7.5 hours walking.</p>
<p>Note: This trip will easily combine with the transfer to Lao Cai railway station without repeating the way or passing by Sapa.</p>


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