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This is a Vietnam Sapa hard trekking tour that requires strength and some trekking practice or experience. The trekking trail is tough at some parts, especially when it rains. Crossing the river and stream can be very challenging. This Sapa hard trek can be organized all year round. Landscapes is lively beautiful during the harvesting starting from May to September. But the best time to travel this hard trekking tour fall into April, May, October and early November.
Day 1: Sapa – Tram Ton. Start trekking (L,D).
8:30: You will be met up by Lotussia Travel team at your hotel in Sapa (please advise your hotel name).
Transfer to the Tram Ton Pass with a short top at the Silver Waterfall. Walk 15 minutes around the Heaven Gate for magnificent scenery of the other side of Hoang Lien Son mountain range.
Start trekking from Tram Ton - ”Heaven Gates” along a narrow trail sneaking on mountain sides through the thick rain forest of the Hoang Lien Nature Reserve mostly downhill for nearly 3 hours, then getting along the upstream part of the Muong Hoa River for the whole afternoon until reaching to a H’mong village. Walking around to explore the village, visiting local houses as well as getting intact with villagers.
Arriving to home-stay at about 5.00 pm.
Day 2: Continue trekking Sapa hill tribe villages (B,L,D).
After breakfast, you will leave the village at about 08.30 – 09.00 am and walk on a good path to Cat Cat Waterfall. You will have a short rest at this nature wonders before you continue hiking up and downhill along the Vang Stream through part of Hoang Lien National Park is covered by thick bamboo and rain forest. You will hike passing by several isolated hamlets of the Black H’mong.
You will arrive in another H’mong village in mid afternoon, walk around to explore the village for 1 hour and then settle down for relax at home-stay.
Day 3: Continue hiking Sapa hill tribe villages (B,L,D).
Start trekking from the homestay along a larger path for an hour to another H’mong village. You hike through several tribal hamlets along the way with traces of the past sifting way of life. Enjoy spectacular scenery of the Muong Hoa Valley.
The trail becomes narrow and tough uphill through bamboo and then later thick rain the Hoang Lien National Park. Nearly 5 hours trek in the reach nature and some times the trail gets out of the forest to offer stunning panorama of the long and large valley below.
Arriving in an isolated H’mong village, located in a charming valley at the height 1567 m above sea level in late afternoon, free time to relax by the stream near the newly built hydraulic power station.
Day 4: Continue trekking Sapa villages (B,L,D).
After breakfast, you will have an easy walk for 20 minutes and then trekking 2 hours along a tougher trail winding downhill through thick rain forest to Den Thang village which isolated itself in a remote valley. Explore this village and then have lunch.
Leaving this isolated hamlet, the trail continuing along a narrow stream up and downhill through the wildest land of Sapa for about 4 hours to Ta a Red Zao village.
Arriving to homestay at about 5.00 pm. You may want to have a short walk around the village before checking into a local house for dinner and overnight.
Day 5: Continue trekking Sapa ethnic villages (B,L,D).
Challenging along a narrow dirt trail sneaking on steep hill sides through narrow & sharp canyon from the height of 950 m up to nearly 1,500m for the whole morning.
Lunch break at the top of the mountain in the forest.
Then following the same trail downhill for 1,5 hour through the forest to another village of the Red Zao. Walk around to explore this quiet and charming village. Then following larger dirt path 1 hour downhill to a village of Xa Pho peoples. Paying visiting to local homes here for interesting discovery of the unique way of living. The Xa Pho is a sub group of the Phu La ethnic whose population is just about 4,000 in Vietnam and still live a primary way.
You will have about half hour walk before arriving in a local home in village. Check into a local house for dinner and overnight.
Day 6: Continue trekking (B,L,D)
Today, you will trek along a large & good path uphill to a Red Zao village and then continue along a dirt path for 1,5 hour to another village is inhabited by both the Red Zao and Black H’mong. This portion of the trek offers stunning view as well as chances to understand life of tribal peoples in remote land.
Lunch will be provided en route.
After lunch, continue trekking for about two more hours in the afternoon along the same trail passing through the land of Suoi Thau Commune to another village of the Red Zao. Check in home-stay, having a short rest and enjoy an easy walk to explore this charming and quiet village.
Day 7: Continue trekking Sapa hill tribe villages. Transfer to Laocai train station (B,L).
Trek along a narrow dirt trail for a half hour to the bottom of the valley and gradually uphill for nearly 2 hours to some Red Zao villages. Visit local homes for learning more fact about the life and way of living of the Red Zao.
Lunch will be provided en route.
After lunch, you continue hiking, following a large and rocky road for a half hour to the top of the mountain range, then the trek gradually getting downhill to Red Dzao and Tay village.
Continue along the same trail downhill for nearly 2 hours before you will be picked up again by Lotussia local team and transferred to Lao Cai where you may relax and then take the night train to Hanoi. The end of Lotussia Travel service.
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