3-Day Sapa Valley Trekking Tour with Cat Cat and Ta Van Villages

• 06:30 - 07:00 am - Pick up from your hotel or the meeting point, then depart for Sapa via the Noi Bai - Lao Cai highway. Along the way, you will have the chance to contemplate the beauty of the northwest mountains, with terraced fields sparkling in the sunlight.
• Have a short break for 30 minutes, then continue the trip to Sapa.
• 01:00 pm - Arrive in Sapa, check in to the hotel, and have lunch.
• In the afternoon, start trekking to Cat Cat village, about a 45-minute walk from Sapa. This is the village of the Black H'mong hill tribe. Experience the tribal way of life while enjoying beautiful views of the terraced rice paddy fields and the waterfall in Cat Cat village.
• Make your way to Cat Cat waterfall, learning about the culture and unique customs of the local people through traditional crafts such as weaving, carved silver, and forged agricultural tools. Here, you can also see the hydroelectric power station built by the French in the twentieth century.
• Come back to the hotel.
• In the evening, after dinner, you are free to explore the charm of Sapa by night. Enjoy roasted corn and baked eggs beside a charcoal fire, or go shopping.

Overnight at a hotel in Sa Pa.

• 08:00 am - After breakfast, check out from the hotel.
• Leave the hotel and start trekking. The first part is on the road, but soon you will turn right and walk on a small path down the valley to the Muong Hoa River, and from there continue to the Black H'mong village of Lao Chai. The Black H'mong are one of the biggest minority groups in the Sapa area, and they have their own language and wear traditional indigo blue clothing.
• Have lunch at Lao Chai village.
• Continue to Ta Van village (1,200 m) to visit the Zay people. The Zay are a relatively small minority group of about 38,000 people who live mainly in the mountains of Northwest Vietnam. You may find many women wearing traditional shirts in purple, blue, or green. Zay houses are built of wood and bamboo with clay floors.

Stay overnight with a local family in Ta Van and have dinner.

• Enjoy breakfast at the homestay for an early start.
• Start the day with a 5 km trek to visit H'mong villages. The trek takes you along local paths, up and down rice terraces, and into the villages and homes of local hill tribes. Enjoy a beautiful waterfall and a rattan bridge, with picturesque landscapes through bamboo forest on the way to the main road, where you will take a jeep back to Sapa.
• 2:00 pm - Transfer by bus from Ta Van village to Sapa town. Enjoy your free time in Sapa for refreshment.
• 3:00 pm - Go on a short drive to Sapa town, where the staff prepares a takeaway sandwich for your journey to Hanoi.
• 09:30 pm - Arrive in Ha Noi.

End of the tour.