Sapa Trek 4 -Day Hiking

sapa trek Days / 3 nights trek, the tour starts at 9AM and finishes at 3:12PM at the homestay and in SaPa on the last day of your trek. Includes: 4 lunches,  3 dinners, 3 breakfasts, overnight stay in a homestay, entrance fee to the villages and transportation back to SaPa town after your trek. The transportation will be a shared minivan or a private car. 

Our guide will meet you at 9AM in your hotel foyer in SaPa to start your trek, or if you have not booked your hotel in SaPa yet, then you can leave your luggage in our room while trekking. You can also take a shower after your trip at our premises.

Our tours are flexible for all of our guests. When the guide meets you she  will have a map to discuss all the tour options: easy, medium or challenging. It just depends on your preference, time, fitness and the weather. When the guide shows you the map, you can make the best decision for your trek and any options you want to discuss with your guide. 

 

 

About Home-stays 

Homestays are run by Ethnic minorities who choose to welcome travellers and have prepared their houses to accommodate guests. These are traditional houses where the family stays in separate rooms with guests, although you will often eat dinner together with the family. There are hot showers, towels, western-style toilets with paper, electricity, mosquito nets and tasty local traditional food. The homestays are clean and safe and here you will experience local ethnic culture. 

 

Some Local activities: include 1 lunch in a local house and playing a local game of drinking rice wine.

 

On your first day of the trek instead of lunch in a local Restaurant, we will take you to (have a lunch) in a Local house and taste the local traditional food. In the local villages, we can not afford to buy beer or wine, so the Hmong ethnic minority make their rice wine or buy from the local store that makes Local rice wine. The local rice wine is like sake. It’s pretty strong like 35%. 

After you finish the meal we will play a local game with the chicken beak of drinking rice wine. We have a limit on drinking rice wine, for each person is only allowed to drink 1-2-3 small glasses of rice wine. If you don’t want to try to drink rice wine it’s not a problem, you don’t have to drink it if you don’t like it.

After the local drinking game, we will continue to trek to your Homestay.

On your last day, you will (have 3 lunch in a local restaurant)

 

See below for your tour options.

 

WHAT TO BRING FOR YOUR TREK

Summer Time SaPa

June till mid-September can be hot so you will need 2 T-shirts, 2 pairs of socks, raincoat, hat, suncream, sunglasses and mosquito repellant.

Winter Time in SaPa

October till May is our winter time and it can be very cold so you will need one warm jacket, warm jeans, 2 T-shirts and 2 pairs of socks for your Trek.

 

THE 4-DAY / 3-NIGHT TREKKING OPTIONS

Option 1: Sapa Vietnam Hard Trek. This is a scenic trek through rice fields and various landscapes (best time is late summer)

Day 1: From SaPa, walk through Cat Cat village then trek to San Ho village, then have a picnic in Y Linh Ho village. Here you will have many chances to take photos of the amazing views of the rice fields. You will enjoy trekking through the rice fields as it is quiet and peaceful. After the picnic, you and your guide will trek to Lao Chai village where you will have an overnight stay with a Hmong ethnic minority family.                                                                                                      

Day 2: After breakfast continue hiking up the mountain to Seo My Ty village where you can see Sapa town on a clear day. When you reach the top of the mountain, you will have lunch in the Hmong ethnic minority’s house and taste the local food. After lunch, you will hike down the hill to Ta Van village where you will have an overnight stay with Zay minority. This is approximately a 14 or 16km trek. 

Day 3: After breakfast we continue hiking to Giang Ta Chai village where we will have lunch in a local restaurant. After lunch we will walk to Su Pang Village for an overnight stay with a Hmong ethnic minority family.    

Day 4: After breakfast we continue hiking to Ban Den village where you will have lunch before the car returns you to Sapa town.                                                

 

Option 2:  This tour will suit high mountain trekkers where you can see SaPa on a clear day.

Day 1: SaPa to Sen Sang village and then walk to Hang Da village before having lunch in a local restaurant at Lao Chai village. After lunch we walk to Ta Van village where you will have an overnight homestay with a Zay or Hmong family.                                                                                                                                              

Day 2: After breakfast continue hiking up the mountain to Seo My Ty village where you see Sapa town on a clear day. When you reach the top of the mountain, you will have lunch in the Hmong ethnic minority’s house and taste the local food. After lunch you will hike down the hill to the same homestay where you were the first night. This is approximately a 9 or 10km trek.

Day 3: After breakfast continue trekking to Giang Ta Chai village and Su Pang village then Ban Den village where we will have lunch in a local restaurant. After lunch you walk 13km to Ban Ho village where you will have an overnight stay with a Tay ethnic minority family.

Day 4:  After breakfast walk to Nam Toong village and then return to Ban Ho village where we will have lunch in the same homestay. After lunch a car will pick you up from Ban Ho Village to return to SaPa Town.

 

Option 3: On this trek visit a cave and have a herbal bath {extra cost of $10} at your homestay.

Day1: SaPa to Ma Tra village then walk to Ta Phin village where we will have lunch. After Lunch you will visit a cave with your guide in Ta Phin and then stay overnight with a Red Dao family in their homestay. Here you can choose to have a herbal bath for an extra cost of $10 USD.  

Day2: After breakfast we will take a motorbike taxi to Cau Ba 2 then start to walk to Sen Sang village then Hang Da village  where we will have lunch in a local restaurant. After lunch continue hiking down the valley to Lao Chai village and then to Ta Van village where you have an overnight stay with a Zay or Hmong ethnic minority family.  

Day3: After breakfast continue hiking up the mountain to Seo My Ty village where you can see Sapa town on a clear day. When you reach the top of the mountain, you will have lunch in the Hmong ethnic minority’s house and taste the local food. After lunch you will hike down the hill to the same homestay where you were the first night. This is approximately a 9 or 10km trek.

Day4: After breakfast we trek to Giang Ta Chai village where we will have lunch in a local restaurant before a car picks you up to return to SaPa.

 

Included during your trek

A: Private English-speaking guide                                                                                                                                               

B: 2 lunches in a local restaurant  and 1 lunch in a local house                                                                                                                         

C: Entrance fee to the villages                                                                                                                                  

D: Transportation back to SaPa                                                                                                                    

E: 2 nights in 2 different Homestays including 2 dinners and 2 breakfasts.

 

 

Not included in your trek

A: Soft drinks and Beverages     

B: Travel Insurance                                                                                                                                              

C: Luxury accommodation                                                                                                                             

D: Snacks                                                                                                                                                    

E: Any extra transportation other than what is included in your chosen tour will be charged for.