Private Day Tour
The most beautiful one day trekking tour in Sapa
At 9h00: We will meet you in hotel to start your trek with a walk through the center town of Sapa and along streets. Taking a turn to the left on the trail to Hang Da, Hau Chu Ngai and Thao Hong Den village of Hmong tribe. While hiking along the villager trail, you will enjoy a panoramic view of Muong Hoa valley underneath with a large terrace field carpets alternating the villages of Sapa ethnic people. Unleash to explore stunning landscapes, daily life and traditional customs of local people, a picnic lunch is set on a spot where you can take a time to relax. You will then continue your walk through paddle fields and overview of village of Giang Ta Chai, where you will be transfered back to Sapa by van.
The tours, our usually take you to the remote villages where less touristy and virtually untouched , but it depends on you , such as you would like to do hard trekking to the places of scenic terraces , mountains , waterfalls or explore the local markets of the minority … I will take you to explore those lands even if you can not walk a lots we still can take you to many beautiful places and compliance your needs .
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Sapa Authentic Home-stay
(2days -1night)
Day1: Sapa – Trails to Suoi Ho – Ma Tra – Taphin – Home-stay
– When you arrive in Sapa we pick you up and take you to our office in Sapa where you can take a free hot shower and keep the luggage in here during the trip.
At 10h00: We begin day 1 with a 3km trek to the village of Suoi Ho, home to the H’mong minority people. From here you can enjoy stunning views of rice terraces, and you will have the opportunity to see some of the animals used by the locals. Continuing on to Matra village you will come across the impressive ruins of a monastery dating back to the French occupation in the early 1900s. The next stop is the village of Ta Phin where you will be able to meet both H’mong and Red Dzao minorities. Our guide will introduce you to some Red Dzao women who can tell you more about their many remedies. Late afternoon you will be welcomed into the home of the host and Red Dzao family, where dinner will be cooked on an open fire and you will have a chance to learn how to cook Vietnamese food with family.
You also can soak your body in a herbal bath (addition cost by your own 7usd) if you would like to get the experience as local people and sleep soundly enjoying the serenity of sleeping out in the mountains.
Day2: Taphin – Trung Trai – Takko pass – Sapa
On day 2 as the resident rooster will kindly let you know it’s time to get up… and if that doesn’t rouse you, maybe the pigs asking for their food will. After breakfast you will begin your trek to Trung Chai Village, with a choice of routes depending on the weather and your preferences. Trung Chai is home to Red Dzao and H’mong minorities, and they have chosen a location with an exceptional landscape! You will be provided with a lunch on route to the village and upon arrival to Trung Chai there will be transport back to Sapa Town at 14h30. Get the room for free hot shower before you leave Sapa.
Overnight at the remote villlage is a great experience to get a feel for the culture you’re visiting but if you really want to understand more about the daily lives of the local people, so there really is no substitute for spending a few days as a homestay guest.
This style of travel isn’t for everyone… Conditions at my village & others is fairly basic – a typical home is often a fairly basic wooden affair with mats on the floor to sleep on but still have hot showers… but if you’re up for a little bit of an adventure and come with an open-mind, you’ll soon find that the minor discomforts are far out-weighed by the benefits of this unique experience.
You’ll also quickly discover that homestays are actually a two-way cultural exchange as your hosts are very likely to be as interested in your culture as you are in theirs.
I offer private homestay in my village and my friend’s home-stay in other places. So you will be among the local people. Custom homestay will depend on your group party size, length of travel, and comfortability.
Sapa Batik Class Tour
Sapa trekking through terrace rice fields and Join with Batik Class :
The tour start: From 9h00 – 16h00.
Activities: 3hours trekking and 2hours at Batik Class
The beautiful art of batik – using wax and dye to create patterns on cloth – has been around for centuries. More than 2,400 years ago, the Egyptians used a form of batik to wrap their mummies, and the practice soon spread to China, India, Japan and Indonesia. Batik is also practiced as far away as Africa, although various starches may be substituted for beeswax.
In Vietnam, the H’mong, one of the country’s 54 ethnic groups, practice this age-old art and we set out to the Muong Hoa Valley, just outside of Sapa, to learn from a batik master.
Because Sapa’s climate and soil only support one rice crop per year, the women have months where looking after the home and children are their main duties while the men are off tending to fields, animals or doing manual labor. Walking through the H’mong villages, you see women and girls sitting everywhere – sewing, embroidering and hand-dyeing spectacularly colorful outfits. It’s refreshing to note that these intricate garments aren’t for tourists – the H’mong women actually wear them quite often – when going to market, going into town, and sometimes just to visit neighbors.
Our batik master is named Dee and she welcomes us to her small but tidy home. She speaks very little English, but a ready and full-bodied smile transcends all language barriers and we’re soon communicating through bits of English, Vietnamese and lots of gestures.
Batik starts out with some kind of cloth. The Vietnamese H’mong prefer hemp, and a complicated-looking handloom testifies to their weaving skills.
The hemp fibers are straw-like and it’s hard to believe that they can be spun into such strong, durable cloth with a linen-like feel.
The art of batik creates patterns using a wax-resist method. Dee puts on a pot of beeswax to melt over hot coals. The beeswax is colored with indigo paste to make it easier to see against the off-white hemp fabric.
A basket of tools lies nearby – filled with pen-like instruments made of bamboo and tipped with metal. There are metal stamps as well in all types of shapes and patterns taken from nature and from everyday motifs, a traditional way of documenting everyday H’mong life.
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