Day 2 ( Fri): FD Hanoi - Lao Cai (B/ L/ D)

Breakfast at hotel. Full day city tour: Ho Chi Minh’s (closed on Monday, Friday  and the entire months of October & November), Still House, One Pillar Pagoda, Temple of Literature, built in the 11th century as Vietnam’s first university. Lunch at a local restaurant. In the afternoon visit of Museum of Ethnology. Take 01 hour cyclo to visit Old Quarter, Hoan Kiem Lake & Ngoc Son Temple.  Attend a performance of the famous Vietnamese traditional art of  water puppetry at Thang Long Theatre. Transfer to Ha Noi train station. Overnight trip to Lao Cai in sharing comfortable sleeping compartment with 2 lower & 2 upper berths per compartment. Overnight on the train.

Day 3  (Sat): Lao Cai - Sapa (B/ L/ D)

Early morning ( approximate 05.30h), arrival at Lao Cai station, pick up and transfer to Sapa. Breakfast at hotel in Sapa. Trekking to Cat Cat village to visit H’mong people. Lunch at a local restaurant. A scenic 6 km drive brings you to Ta Phin Villages, lying in a hillside meadow, it is home to Red Dzao and H’Mong people. Accommodation.

Day 4  (Sun) : Sapa – Bac Ha -  Lao Cai (B/ L/ D)

Early breakfast at hotel. Check out from the hotel depart by car for the highland town of Bac Ha where you can wander through the local ethnic market. Bac Ha is a center for alcohol manufacture and at the end of the busy day at the market the men folk can often be seen wending their merry way home.
After lunch at a local restaurant time for a last look around Bac Ha before driving to Lao Cai, where you will board the overnight train to Ha Noi at around 20.15h.

 Day 5: Ha Noi –  (B/-/ -)