DETAILED ITINERARY
This trip is designed to add-on trekking tours from Sapa, it can be start in both Lao Cai or Sapa, and the prices will be reduced when you combined between Sapa Tours and Market tours. For More information we invite you to contact with our travel experts at: info@finneganshotel.com
AM
Pick you up at Lao Cai staition , first downhill to Lao Cai City, then uphill through Muong Khuong District onto Cao Son Commune. The road condition is good but having many sharp bends which offers stunning scenery of the beautiful mountainous region along the border to China, especially the terraced rice paddies, tea plantation and pine plantations…
Arrive in Cao Son at about 10.00 am, right at the crowded time of the market. Join locals to enjoy the excitement of this weekly market to which local tribal peoples come to attend not only for shopping but also for socializing. Walk from section to sections, corner to corners, seeing and smelling of different local products such as spices, vegetable, farming tools, handicraft; and even medicinal herb…, meeting smiling peoples every where. The market is often over at 11.30 am, leaving the market place for a short walk to explore a charming village of the Flower Hmong nearby before lunch break.
PM
After lunch, embark on 25km road trip on a narrow tarmac which winds its way along the Chay River downhill thorough magnificent valleys. Lots of photo and Hill tribe hamlet on the way that we will stop for discovering.
Arrive Coc Ly Bridge, boarding a local boat and cruising along the Chay River for 1.5 hours to Trung Do village which is home to the Tay peoples, hiding itself on eastern bank amongst high mountains. Taking an hour walk around the village and visit a family before taking the boat ride again briefly to Bao Nhai, Bus pick up for coffee before embarking a 46 km road trip to Lao Cai.
Inclusion: Breakfast, Lunch, transfer, guide, entrance fees, and boat trip