REAL DZAY AND TAY HOMESTAY 3D4N

Duration: 3 days & 4 nights Grade: Hard Trek Activities: 3 days trek with flexibility Accommodation: 2 nights homestay, 2 night train
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This 3 day, 4 night tour is a perfect combination of trek and culture while visiting hill tribe villages at a pace and style that complements you. Journey away from the crowds and homestay at a traditional Dzay and Tay family. Learn and participate in village life and truly feel the warmth and hospitality of these incredible people, and support a community based tourism project. This is an unforgettable soft adventure to Sapa that should be part of everyone’s time in Vietnam. A Finnegans favourite!

Duration: 3 days & 4 nights
Grade: Hard Trek
Activities: 3 days trek with flexibility
Accommodation: 2 nights homestay, 2 night on tourist train

Highlight
Trek and hike on the roads less traveled and that are beautiful
Homestay at the Dzay’s and Tay ethnic minority
Supporting our community based tourism
Attention to your personal needs before and after the trek

Itinerary at a glance

              Night 1: 9pm boarding Hanoi – Lao Cai overnight train
DAY 1:  Sapa – Y Linh Ho – Lao Chai – Ta Van (B,L,D)
              Inclusion:  Transfer, guide, entrance fees, train tickets, full-day meals, permit, homestay. 
   
DAY 2:  Ta Van – Giang Ta Chai – Su Pan – Ban Ho (B,L,D)
                           Inclusion:  Transfer, guide, entrance fees, train tickets, full-day meals, permit, homestay. 

DAY 3: Day 3: Ban Ho – Nam Toong - Sapa - Train ( B,L,D)
              8pm boarding Lao Cai – Hanoi train overnight, 5am following day arrive Hanoi.
              Inclusion: Transfer, guide, train ticket, entrance fees, all meals, permit. 
              

Night 1: Hanoi – Lao Cai Overnight Train 
8pm you will be met by our travel expert to fulfill the pack list and escorted to Hanoi railway station by our staff. Boarding the train, Finnegans prefer to take you to your cabin before saying good bye.

 Inclusion: 
Train ticket (4 Soft sleeper A/C wooden cabin - sharing cabin), transfer


 Day 1: Sapa – Y Linh Ho – Lao Chai – Ta Van

Be picked up from Lao Cai train station to Sapa town. Have breakfast then start 12 km of trekking, visit Y Linh ho, Lao Chai and Ta Van villages of the H’mong and the Dzay minorities. After lunch at a local family in Ta Van, we keep on hiking around the village of the Dzay with H’mong where we stay overnight in a local family for you to get to know their daily life of the local people: work, custom, embroideries, clothes...

- B, L, D
- O/N at the Dzay local house
- Inclusion:  Transfer, guide, entrance fees, train tickets, full-day meals, permit, homestay. 

Day 2: Ta Van – Giang Ta Chai – Su Pan – Ban Ho
After pancake made by your host family, we continue to discover Giang Ta Chai village, then Su Pan villages of the red Dzao minority. After picnic lunch, we keep on hiking to Ban Ho, the village lies within a beautiful valley, home to the Tay minority people who have their traditional house on stilts and we will spend the night here.

- B, L, D
- O/N at the Tay local house
- Inclusion:  Transfer, guide, entrance fees, train tickets, full-day meals, permit, homestay. 

Day 3: Ban Ho – Nam Toong - Sapa
2km walking to a very nice waterfall discovered and named “the Lavie” by the French during the colonial time in Vietnam. Enjoy swimming then go up to the mountain to visit a small hamlet of the Red Dzao people called Nam Toong, then get back to Ban Ho before get to Sapa by Car.
- B, L,D
- transfer to Lao cai Station
- Inclusion: Transfer, guide, train ticket, entrance fees, all meals, permit. 

PRICE: 217 USD/PERSON ( This price is for private tour. Your group must have at least 2 people). Group tour is also available. Please feel free to contact us should you have any questions

Important Notes:

PROGRAMS & SCHEDULES SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT PRIOR NOTICE

Warning: There is some cheating at Lao Cai train station that some guys try to see your travel voucher, then they say, they are looking for you, invite you to the bus, then force you to pay at $30 for a seat on the bus to Sapa. So please do not pay for any body here, and be aware of this problem.


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