Tours Code : Can-01 - Cancau - Bacha Markets |
2days/3night : depart on Friday |
| 20h30 Pick up , transfer to station for overnight train to Lao Cai |
Day 1 : Lao Cai Station - BacHa - Can Cau Market(B.L,D): Picked up at Laocai Train Station to transfer to CanCau market. It takes more than 2 hours to get to CanCau - a small market situated in a valley surrounded by mountains and only 7 km from China. The market deeply shows the typical cultural features of the minorities in remote mountainous areas in Vietnam. Further more, you can enjoy seeing boys and girls in colourful costumes - different colours of the mountains. They attend the market in the hope of finding "the other halves of their lifves" and this is also the time for them to chat, to exchange everything among different ethnic peoples through cups of wine sold in the market. Say goodbye to the market and transfer to BacHa. On the way, spend time visiting a village of the Flower H'mong and then check in hotel in BacHa. Free to explore the town. Lunch in CanCau or in BacHa and dinner in BacHa.
Day2(Sunday):Bac Ha Market-Lao Cai Station-Ha Noi:(B.L,D) A walk to BacHa market. Visit one village and an old building called The H'mong king's house. Breakfast and the beginning of the day on which you visit a big market filled with many different hill-tribe peoples. This is the most colourful market in North Vietnam. At the market, you have chance to enjoy BacHa people's simple but unique kinds of food with special wines made from rice, cassavas, corn and different sorts of fruits such as plumps, apples, peaches... talking to the minorities through the guide's interpretation. Leave the market for the H'mong King's house (King Hoang A Tuong) built by the French colonists and the Chinese in 1920. Return the town for lunch. In the afternoon, spend time visiting another village (BanPho village) Say good bye to BacHa and get back to Sapa. On the way back, drop in to see the Vietnamese and Chinese Harbor Mouth in LaoCai . Overnight Train back Ha Noi . Arrive Ha Noi at 5 h00 . End of great trip.
Tour price include: - Food (All meals on the tour),\- English speaking guide, - Entrance fees, - Accommodation (Hotel and home-stay), - Train return tickets Hanoi-Laocai (soft sleeper with air-conditioning), - Jeep go and back as the program
Excludes : - Insurance, - Drinks, - Phone calls and other private expenses,
Notes: Advised to take good walking shoes, raincoats, jackets, torch, insect repellent and sunscreen...
Can Cau Market' s Photos :
|