Can Cau - Bac Ha Market 2 Days/ 3 Nights

Can Cau is predominately a livestock market and not the sort of place to buy some choice gifts for the folks back home. Beyond the fenced-in perimeter, pot-bellied pigs, chickens and water buffalo wait patiently by the river to be sold. They rub shoulders with magnificent wild horses, some of whom will be transporting their masters back over to China. But the market also sells the basics: traditional clothing, sacks of rice, bundles of coarse, raw wool and ironware. Some stalls sell fresh tobacco and a rather sad array of root vegetables. Many women sell their wares from large, wicker baskets and sit weaving whilst waiting for a sale. I note that there are many giant plastic containers lying around with attached tubes

Night 1 :

19h30 Pick you up from your hotel in Hanoi to Hanoi Railway Station for the night train at at 21:15 to get to Laocai Station. Sleep on the train.(4 people/cabin or 2 people/cabin on request).

Day 1 : Lao Cai Station - Bac Ha Town - Can Cau Market(B.L)

Picked up at Laocai Train Station to transfer to CanCau market. It takes more than 2 hours to get to CanCau - a small market situated in a valley surrounded by mountains and only 7 km from China. The market deeply shows the typical cultural features of the minorities in remote mountainous areas in Vietnam. Further more, you can enjoy seeing boys and girls in colourful costumes - different colours of the mountains. They attend the market in the hope of finding "the other halves of their lifves" and this is also the time for them to chat, to exchange everything among different ethnic peoples through cups of wine sold in the market. Say goodbye to the market and transfer to BacHa. On the way, spend time visiting a village of the Flower H'mong and then check in hotel in BacHa. Free to explore the town. Lunch in CanCau or in BacHa, overnight at homestay in Bach Ha.

Day2(Sunday):Bac Ha Market - Lao Cai - Station-Ha Noi:(B.L)

A walk to BacHa market. Visit one village and an old building called The H'mong king's house. Breakfast and the beginning of the day on which you visit a big market filled with many different hill-tribe peoples. This is the most colourful market in North Vietnam. At the market, you have chance to enjoy BacHa people's simple but unique kinds of food with special wines made from rice, cassavas, corn and different sorts of fruits such as plumps, apples, peaches... talking to the minorities through the guide's interpretation. Leave the market for the H'mong King's house (King Hoang A Tuong) built by the French colonists and the Chinese in 1920. Return the town for lunch. In the afternoon, spend time visiting another village (BanPho village) Say good bye to BacHa and get back to Sapa. On the way back, drop in to see the Vietnamese and Chinese Harbor Mouth in LaoCai . Overnight Train back Ha Noi .

Arrive Ha Noi at 5 h00 . End of great trip.

Tour includes:

- Train tickets 2 ways (soft sleepers, air-condition cabin 04 berth  )

- Private transfer as itinerary

- Homestay accommodation

- All meals as dedicated itinerary

- Entrance fees to the villages.

- English speaking guide.

- Jeep go and back as timetable.

Excludes: Insurance, Drinks, Phone calls and other private expenses