Nowaday, Vietnam becomes a very popular destination for visitors for all over the world. Vietnam is known for beautiful country, good foods and especially friendly people. This tour let us witness Vietnam's most stunning landscapes, ancient history, colorful minority cultures, friendly people and interesting metropolises. It takes us from stately Hanoi, the world heritage site of Halong Bay to the ethnic minority people in Sa Pa.
Vietmountain travel
Express the life through each step !
Your destinations
Tour programme
- Period of tours
Favorite tours
Favorite tours:
4 Days 3 Nights
Acommodations:
Tour price: 260 $
Bac Ha Market is held every Sunday and is the biggest minority peoples market in Northwest Vietnam. Alive with the bright colours and extravagant costumes of the local people, here you will meet Flowe...
Favorite tours:
3 Days 2 Nights
Acommodations:
Tour price: 200 $
Vietnam's highest mountain, Fansipan ( 3143m ) lies within the reserve boundary, less 5 km as the crow flies from Sapa but an arduous three-to five day round trip on foot. the usual root starts by des...
Favorite tours:
3 Days 2 Nights
Acommodations:
Tour price: 200 $
The trip starts from Hanoi and leads you the ancient village of Duong Lam (80 km). However the highlight of the trip is Mù Cang Chải , a rural district of Yen Bai province. This is the amazingly beaut...
Favorite tours:
4 Days 3 Nights
Acommodations:
Tour price: 400 $
This green color will change to yellow at the end of the crop and it will really be beautiful in your photos. So from June to October, you can book a Mu Cang Chai photography tour any time in this per...
Favorite tours:
12 Days 12 Nights
Acommodations:
Tour price: 600 $
Welcome to the roof of Vietnam, where the mountains of the Tonkinese Alps (Hoang Lien Mountains) soar skyward, their long shadows concealing some of the country’s best-kept secrets. The landscape is a...
Home:
Tour Hanoi - Sapa - Ha Long Bay 6 Days 5 Nights
Tour code: VMTHNSPHL0605
Duration: 6 Days - 5 Nights
Tour price: 250 $
| Acommodations |
|
| Tour type | Private transportation |
| Departure | Private tour |
SAPA CULTURE TOUR - FABULOUS ADVENTURE OF ETHNIC GROUPS IN SAPA
Located 38 km from Lao Cai City, Sapa is a mountainous district of Lao Cai Province. Each time the name Sapa is mentioned, it conjures up a dreamy landscape immersed in fog and a distinctive vividity of ethnic life.
With special location isolated from the modern civilization, ethnic minority villagers thrive under the unique conditions. In addition, it is the diversity of ethnic groups that make Sapa an ideal destination for culturally adventurous travelers. Leaving the busy life behind and taking opportunity to experience incredible Sapa will bring you the unforgettable memories.
Sapa’s traditional festivals
Traditional festival is popular and typical tourism form attracting a large number of tourists coming to discover Sapa. That kind of festival is held to introduce and promote unique cultural values of local people and nature to Vietnamese visitors in particular and foreign visitors in general. They are vivid reflection of the life of ethnic group community in Sapa. Therefore it is common for any tourists to find themselves in love with Sapa’s special festivals namely Cloud being on festival – perform folklore among villages; cultural day of Mong, Cat Cat Village, San Sa Ho Commune; performance of traditional songs, unique and mysterious dances and folk games of Ethnic minority group in mountainous areas of Sapa at Ham Rong Mountain Ecotourism Resort; “One day as a farmer” tour in Ta Phin Commune…
Sapa love market
For any tourists to Sapa, the not-to-be-missed event is the love market existing for many years– the distinctive cultural features in Sapa. The market is held only once a week, every Saturday night, and lasted to Sunday for goods trade and culture exchange. To participate in this market, it takes local people living far from there a lot of time to go to, so they have to manage to go in advance on Saturday. The highlight activities in the market are that young men and women in other villages have great chance to meet and know each other through playing leaf-horns, traditional games, singing and dancing basing on special melodies. That is why the market has romantic and emotional name – love market expressing eternal love. And it does be market to combine village boy and girl to be husband and wife if they are lucky enough to find out their fatal partners. From the Saturday afternoon, down the street and in front of the church, tourists can see a lot of Dao girls and boys in rhythm of singing and dance which is passionate hearts.
Sapa ethnic minorities – colorful pieces of the unique patchwork
The Hmong
In Sapa, the Hmong Leng (Black Hmong) are the most numerous, some Hmong Sheu and Hmong Pe women – with their colorful skirts and double-breasted tops– come from the Muong Khuong district. You can easily recognize each group by their costumes (color, pattern and design). The villagers mainly rely on traditional agrarian economy with raising animals (pigs, chickens, buffaloes and horses), planning crops (rice, corn, manioc) and cash crop (cardamom and vegetables).
The traditional social organization of the Hmong is based on the clan. Each clan is made of lineages, all the members of which acknowledge a common founding male ancestor. In the Hmong household, up to four different generations may be gathered under the same roof. The household is the most important economic, political and ritual unit. The villages perched on the mountain slopes house several clans.
The Dzao
One of the Dzao’s specific cultural features is their traditional writing system using Chinese characters. The art of painting on paper and canvas survives among the Dzao because yearly they organize religious ceremonies (Taoist) with ritual space covered by painted pictures of the divinities and celestial generals. Like the Hmong, the Dzao build terraced paddy-fields irrigated by a sophisticated system of canals around Sa Pa. They also have a reputation for pig and horse breeding. The different Dzao groups in Sapa have different costumes with various colors and designs such as the Dzao group from the Lao Cai province usually wear red headdresses or red pieces of clothing; the Dao (Ké Mien) from the Taphin and Tavan villages (Sa Pa district) wear flat headdresses, totally red, hung with silver coins, etc….
The Tày
The Tày villagers earn for living by grow rice in paddy fields in Sapa’s terrace of plains and valleys. They live in wooden or bamboo stilt house often built near The villages consist of wooden or bamboo stilt houses and are often built near the bank of a stream or a river. The household is the basic economic unit and tends to be a nuclear family limited to close relatives.
The Tày, Giay, Nung and Thai women wear brightly-colored jackets, – pink, green, or blue – double-breasted, often with contrasting braid at the collar. The tartan headscarf covers their hair gathered into a bun. Traditionally, each group used to have their own style of bun, held up with long silver needles, but the custom is vanishing.
Brief Itinerary
Day 1: Hanoi arival
Day 2: Hanoi city tour
Day 3: Hanoi – Halong bay
Day 4: Halong bay - Hanoi
Day 5: Hanoi – Sapa
Day 6: Sapa - Hanoi
Itinerary
DAY 01: HANOI ARRIVAL
Up on arrival in Hanoi, you will be welcomed by Vietmountain Travel, transferred to hotel in the Old Quater, check in and relax. Discover Hanoi by night. Overnight in Hanoi.
Meals: none included
Accommodation: hotel
DAY 02: HANOI CITY TOUR
08:00: Pick you up at your hotel. We visit Ho Chi Minh Complex with Ho Chi Minh mausoleum, Ba Dinh square, One Pillar pagoda and Temple of Literature. Have a lunch in restaurant. The rest of the day we will visit the museum of Ethnic Minority, Hoan Kiem Lake and Ngoc Son Temple. Tour ends at hotel arround 17:00. Overnight in Hanoi.
Meals: lunch
Accommodation: hotel
DAY 03: HANOI – HALONG BAY
At 08:00 AM, we will start our tour to Halong Bay.
The vehicle takes us through the Red River Delta for 3,5 hour and we will arrive the port at around midday. Welcome by the Cruiser crew team and enjoy fresh seafood lunch while the cruise is gliding out.
In the afternoon, we visit Vung Vieng village and learn about life in Halong bay communities. Visit Vung Ha area for kayaking, swimming, and relaxing in one of the Bay’s hidden coves. Back to Cruise and free time. Dinner and overnight on boat.
Meals: lunch, dinner
Accommodation: Cruise
DAY 04: HALONG BAY - HANOI
Enjoy Taichi on the sundeck. Coffee, tee and breakfast in the dining room. Transfer by tender to Sung Sot cave. Walk up about 100 steps to the cave entrance and tour the cave for approximately 45 minutes. Walk down and return to the cruise.
Lunch will be served when cruising back to the port where our awaiting vehicle will transfer us back to Hanoi. Enjoy dinner and overnight in hotel.
Meals: breakfast, lunch
Accommodation: hotel
DAY 05: HANOI – SAPA – LAO CHAI – TA VAN VILLAGE
8.00 am: our guide will pick you up at your hotel and transfer to Sapa by the new highway.
Arrive at Sapa around 12:30 AM and have a lunch. After lunch and relax, you start trekking down to Lao Chai village of Black H’mong ethnic. Enjoy the overall pictures of the villages among terraces. Visit the H'mong living in wooden and bamboo houses. Continue going to Tavan village to visit the Dzay minority. Stay the night in Tavan village at a Dzay family. Have a dinner and overnight in homestay.
Meals: lunch, dinner
Accommodation: homestay
DAY 06: CAT CAT - HAM RONG – HANOI
After breakfast, you leave Ta Van and travel to Cat Cat village. Upon arrival explore Cat Cat villages, inhabited by the H’mong people. Visit the hydro-power station and the waterfall of Cat Cat village. Learn about the culture and customs of H’mong people including traditional crafts and hand-forged agricultural tools.
After that, your leave Cat Cat village to explore the Ham Rong Mountain with unspoiled scenery and spectacular. At here, you can visit many kinds of colorful orchid garden from Indochina area. Passing two Heaven Gate, visitors will be arriving in the top of Ham Rong is called Pitch Cloud, and have panoramic view of Sapa. At noon, have lunch in a local restaurant. Transfer back to your hotel in Hanoi city. End of tour.
Meals: Breakfast, lunch
Accommodation: none included
Day 1: Hanoi arival
Day 2: Hanoi city tour
Day 3: Hanoi – Halong bay
Day 4: Halong bay - Hanoi
Day 5: Hanoi – Sapa
Day 6: Sapa - Hanoi
Itinerary
DAY 01: HANOI ARRIVAL
Up on arrival in Hanoi, you will be welcomed by Vietmountain Travel, transferred to hotel in the Old Quater, check in and relax. Discover Hanoi by night. Overnight in Hanoi.
Meals: none included
Accommodation: hotel
DAY 02: HANOI CITY TOUR
08:00: Pick you up at your hotel. We visit Ho Chi Minh Complex with Ho Chi Minh mausoleum, Ba Dinh square, One Pillar pagoda and Temple of Literature. Have a lunch in restaurant. The rest of the day we will visit the museum of Ethnic Minority, Hoan Kiem Lake and Ngoc Son Temple. Tour ends at hotel arround 17:00. Overnight in Hanoi.
Meals: lunch
Accommodation: hotel
DAY 03: HANOI – HALONG BAY
At 08:00 AM, we will start our tour to Halong Bay.
The vehicle takes us through the Red River Delta for 3,5 hour and we will arrive the port at around midday. Welcome by the Cruiser crew team and enjoy fresh seafood lunch while the cruise is gliding out.
In the afternoon, we visit Vung Vieng village and learn about life in Halong bay communities. Visit Vung Ha area for kayaking, swimming, and relaxing in one of the Bay’s hidden coves. Back to Cruise and free time. Dinner and overnight on boat.
Meals: lunch, dinner
Accommodation: Cruise
DAY 04: HALONG BAY - HANOI
Enjoy Taichi on the sundeck. Coffee, tee and breakfast in the dining room. Transfer by tender to Sung Sot cave. Walk up about 100 steps to the cave entrance and tour the cave for approximately 45 minutes. Walk down and return to the cruise.
Lunch will be served when cruising back to the port where our awaiting vehicle will transfer us back to Hanoi. Enjoy dinner and overnight in hotel.
Meals: breakfast, lunch
Accommodation: hotel
DAY 05: HANOI – SAPA – LAO CHAI – TA VAN VILLAGE
8.00 am: our guide will pick you up at your hotel and transfer to Sapa by the new highway.
Arrive at Sapa around 12:30 AM and have a lunch. After lunch and relax, you start trekking down to Lao Chai village of Black H’mong ethnic. Enjoy the overall pictures of the villages among terraces. Visit the H'mong living in wooden and bamboo houses. Continue going to Tavan village to visit the Dzay minority. Stay the night in Tavan village at a Dzay family. Have a dinner and overnight in homestay.
Meals: lunch, dinner
Accommodation: homestay
DAY 06: CAT CAT - HAM RONG – HANOI
After breakfast, you leave Ta Van and travel to Cat Cat village. Upon arrival explore Cat Cat villages, inhabited by the H’mong people. Visit the hydro-power station and the waterfall of Cat Cat village. Learn about the culture and customs of H’mong people including traditional crafts and hand-forged agricultural tools.
After that, your leave Cat Cat village to explore the Ham Rong Mountain with unspoiled scenery and spectacular. At here, you can visit many kinds of colorful orchid garden from Indochina area. Passing two Heaven Gate, visitors will be arriving in the top of Ham Rong is called Pitch Cloud, and have panoramic view of Sapa. At noon, have lunch in a local restaurant. Transfer back to your hotel in Hanoi city. End of tour.
Meals: Breakfast, lunch
Accommodation: none included
Quotation: (USD/person)
| Group of travelers | 02 pax | 03 pax | 04 pax | 05 pax | 06 pax |
| Private tour price | 440 | 370 | 290 | 270 | 240 |
-
* INCLUDED
1. Hotel accommodation based on twin
2. Meals as specified in the itinerary
3. Private transportation (pick up airport: +35$/private car)
4. English- speaking guide (other languages are available upon request).
5. Sightseeing as specified including entrance fees
6. Travel insurance
7. Water (2 bottle/day)
8. Description of service in details
* EXCLUDED
- Tips for tour guide, driver
- Expenditure of a personal nature, tips, such as drinks, souvenirs, laundry, emergency transfers & etc
- International airfare to/ from Vietnam & International airport tax in Vietnam
- Others which are not mentioned in the inclusion
* COMMITMENT
- Experienced driver
- Tour guide is friendly and profestional
- Local people are kind, hospitable
- Good security
Attractions
Tour code:
VMTHNSPBH0403
Duration:
4 Days 3 Nights
Tour price: 260 $
Bac Ha Market is held every Sunday and is the biggest minority peoples market in Northwest Vietnam. Alive with the bright colours and extravagant ...
| Acommodations | |
| Tour type | Private transportation |
| Departure | Private tour |
Tour code:
VMTSPCK32
Duration:
3 Days 2 Nights
Tour price: 200 $
Vietnam's highest mountain, Fansipan ( 3143m ) lies within the reserve boundary, less 5 km as the crow flies from Sapa but an arduous three-to fiv...
| Acommodations |
|
| Tour type | Private transportation |
| Departure | Private tour |
Tour code:
VMTHNHGSPHG1312
Duration:
12 Days 12 Nights
Tour price: 600 $
Welcome to the roof of Vietnam, where the mountains of the Tonkinese Alps (Hoang Lien Mountains) soar skyward, their long shadows concealing some ...
| Acommodations |
|
| Tour type | Private transportation |
| Departure | Private tour |
Contact us
Online support:
Address: No.75 Phu Dien street, Phu Dien ward, Bac Tu Liem district, Hanoi, Vietnam..
Working time:
08:00 AM - 17:30 PM
Contact us:
+84 2462 82 88 22
Hotline:
+84 968.01.1234
Email:
info@vietmountaintravel.com
Comments