11 best paths and sapa hikes
The 11 best trekking paths around Sapa City
There are many Sapa hikes experiences but few compare to what Sapa hikes has to offer. The region is full of easy to differecuilt routes, but here are the best:
- Trek to Cat Cat and experience the Cat Cat local villages
- The Sa Pa Muong Hao Valley Trail – an easy introduction to mountain life
- Rent a motorbike or get a taxi to the Silver Waterfall Love Waterfall and Lonely Tree
- Trekking to Fansipan Mountain – the top of Indochina
- Trek to Lao Chai, Ta Van Village, and Giang Ta Chai Village to see the Cau May Waterfall
- Do the Fansipang Mountain cable car which is the highest mountain in Vietnam.
- Visiting the Sapa Glass bridge
- Ma Tra and Ta Phin village and do the Red Dao traditional Herbal bath
- Moana sapa
- Cow hill mountain
- Ban Ho villages for hot spring
1: CAT Cat Villages trek by yourself.
Cat Cat Villages is about 2 km away from Sapa centre, In this village there are a Hmong ethnic minority people living here. On the way on your walk to Cat Cat village, there are all the shops, a waterfall and the weekend and special even very busy. You will need to pay the entrance fee ticket to this village as the price is 150.000vnd per ticket.
On the way back to Sapa if you are tired you can take a motorbike Taxi back to Sapa.
2: Muong Hoa Valley is one of the best for you to do the hikes in Sapa. There are many good trails you can do some trekking around the Muong Hoa Valley and visit many different villages, but to do the best sapa hike tours you will need a local guide who you the villages and trekking. You can book the tours through this link https://www.sapaweather.com/product/sapa-trek-vietnam/
The Muong Hoa Vally have Hmong, Zay, Red Dao, Tay and Xa Pho ethnic minority groups, Those minorities speak different languages. From June until the beginning of September, you will be able to see the amazing rice fire of Sapa north of Vietnam but in the winter time, it will be very foggy, sunny, and cloudy.
3: Rent a Motorbike to Silver Waterfall, love waterfalls, and lonely trees.
It takes a 15km drive from Sapa town to the Silver Waterfall, Lovel Waterfall and Longly Tree, but there is not much water in the waterfall during winter time, during the rainy season more water in the waterfall. If you want to see the sunset then you will need to go in the afternoon for the sunset.
The price of a rented motorbike is 100,000vnd/ per day or 120,000vnd.
you can visit the Silver Waterfall first then go to the Lovel Waterfall.
It takes 15 minutes to walk and finish visiting this silver waterfall. After the sliver waterfall then you will need to get to the Love Waterfall. From Lovel Waterfall you will have to walk and come back to where you dropped the bike it will take 2 hours to finish it. After the love waterfall, you will go to the Lonely Tree for the sunset.
4: Fansipan Mountain – the peak of Indochina.
Our 1 day Mount Fansipan hike starts at 5:30 AM and finishes between 4 – 5 PM in Sapa. Our guide and driver will pick you up at 5:30 AM from your hotel to take you to the start of your trek in the Tram Tom Pass, 15 km away. Please make sure you have breakfast before the tour starts or carry it with you as we do not provide breakfast!
From the Tram Tom Pass, you hike 1000 m up through the rainforest to 2,800 m where you stop for a picnic lunch and rest (with time for breaks and snacks on the way!). After the picnic you keep going to reach the peak of the mountain at 3,147 m. If the weather is clear you will be able to enjoy the view of Sapa town and the impressive Hoan Lien Son Mountain range. To celebrate, your tour guide will give you a medal and certificate and take a photo to show that you successfully reached the summit of the highest mountain in Indochina.
5: Trek to Lao Chai, Ta Van Village, and Giang Ta Chai Village
The Total of the Trek is 5-6-7 hours and 12- 13 KM
SaPa hiking to Y Linh Ho village {lunch in Lao chai village} then to Ta Van village where a car will return you to SaPa.
Our local guide and you will trek through a small path to Y Ly Ho village. Y Ly Ho and Loa Chai villages have the most beautiful rice fields in the Muong Hoa valley. You will see some of the Hmong ethnic minority people living in two of these villages.
After lunch we will walk to a local shop from here our local guide will show you how the Hmong ethnic make their traditional clothing and learn about the local daily life. When the local guide finishes showing you how to make the Hmong traditional cloth you will then continue on a walk to Ta Van village. Ta Van village has the Hmong and Zay ethnic minority people living here. This village is quite popular for homestay for those guests who are doing two-day treks staying an overnight homestay here.
6: Do the Fansipang Mountain cable car which is the highest mountain in Vietnam.
How to get a Fansipan cable car?
You can on this building to book your Fansipan Mountain cable car ticket. It is called sun plaza which has big clocks and a Yelloow building. To go up and get down it takes 3 hours but if you go on the weekend and the event it will be really busy, but the best to avoid the busy time is at 1 PM.
On the way from your cable car, you will see the Hoang Lien Son National Park local village paths for working and a waterfall.
You can check this link for the Fansipang Mountain cable car ticket price. https://fansipanlegend.sunworld.vn/
7: Sapa Glass bridge
Sapa Glass Bridge is 15 km away from Sapa, You can rent a motorbike or get a taxi to Glass Bridge. Glass Bridge has an amazing view if the weather is clear from here you see the widdy road to Loa Chau City, Fanpang Mountain and view the sunset too.
8 Ma Tra Ta Phin Villages.
The Total of the trek is 5-6 hours 12-13 Km.
SaPa – Ma Tra village – {lunch in Ta Phin village} after lunch you and the guide will visit a cave in Ta Phin, then a car will pick you up to return to SaPa. In this option, you will see the red Dao, the Hmong ethnic minority and a little bit of rice field. Ta Phin Village where you can do the herbal bat from the Red Dao ethnic groups.
9:Mona sapa.
Mona Sapa is only 1km from the Sapa centre, you can walk by yourself to Mona Sapa. Mona sapa has a statue of hands and a concrete face. This place is for Anisa style if you are a person interested in Sapa hikes then this is not suitable for you.
10: Cow’s Mountain
The altitude of Cow’s Mountain is about 2000 meters. Which is one of the higher mountain peaks in Sapa north of Vietnam.
The landscape is marvellous you will see 5 different variety landscapes, including Fansipan Mountain, Ta Phin Valley, Ban Khoang, O Quy Ho and Sapa Town. You will perceive how to change 5 different landscapes from Cow’s Mountain. At Cow’s Mountain, it’s windy and cold. The Hmong ethnic minority are farming and there are some animals up there too.
If you want to book the cow’s mountain tours, please contact us through this link for more information about the tours. https://www.sapaweather.com/contact/
11 Ban Ho village.
Ban Ho village is about 35km away from Sapa centre.
In this village, the Hmong and Tay ethnic groups are living in here. There is a hot spring where you can go for a swim. Some customers who do 3 days of trekking overnight homestay will stay here. It takes 3 days to trek in villages but if you take a motorbike or car it just takes 1 hour.