3 Days 2 Nights Hanoi - Sapa

At around 6:30 – 7:00 AM, you will be pick up at your hotel for transfer to Topas Ecolodge by Topas Mountain Express. Check in your bungalow and enjoy the beautiful and peaceful view of the surrounding mountains and valleys from your private balcony. Lunch at the lodge.

Afternoon, start your cycling trip by following the main road for 3km to Lech village of the Red Dao minority. Here you will leave your bikes and take a short walk on dirt road to visit a traditional Red Dao family and experience the culture of the minority villagers who are living peacefully in the same way as their ancestors. Back at the parking place, you will take a further ride to the Moi village and learn how the women in their doorways are doing their embroidery, which the Red Dao people are very famous for. From the village, you head back to the Lodge.

Approx: Grade: Easy/ 1.5 hours cycling.

Overnight at Topas Ecolodge

Meals Lunch, Dinner

 

Start cycling on a quiet road for a while before taking a descent to Ban Ho village. At the bottom of the valley you will meet the Tay minority, one of the largest ethnic minority groups living in Sapa, who are famous for their beautiful and traditional stilt houses. You will be warmly welcomed to visit their home, experience their daily life of farming and fishing in the river. Leaving Ban Ho village your ride becomes a bit more challenging with ascending parts on the winding road. At Thanh Phu village, also inhabited by Tay minority, your lunch is served at a nice local family where you enjoy the valley view while tasting the local foods.

After lunch, you will pass by My Son village of Xa Pho ethnic minority, who belongs to one of the smallest ethnic groups in Vietnam. You now continue the ride deeper into the mountain area to Nam Cang village, inhabited by Red Dao minority. Nam Cang village locates at the most remote area of Sapa where you could meet Red Dao women wear some of the most colorful and diverse costumes of all Vietnam’s ethnic groups. Herbal bath, local medicine and embroidery are some of the things that the Red Dao are very skilled at. If time permits, you can take a swim in the river next to Topas Riverside Lodge, before meeting your vehicle for the journey back to Topas Ecolodge for enjoy 2nd nights in Sapa.

Approx: Grade: Moderate/ 5.5 hours cycling.

Overnight at Topas Ecolodge

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

At 9:00, you will take a private transfer to Sapa town. You will now get on your bike and take a short tour around the old Hill Station town and its lake. You will then take a descent into the Muong Hoa valley and its national park, observing the fantastic scenery of mountains and rice paddy fields along the way. You will get off the road and visit a Black H’mong village and explore the though mountain tribe, famous for their special skills in making agricultural tools, musical instruments, hemp production and indigo dying. After a great ride you are now back at Topas Ecolodge where you have time for relaxing. 

Approx: Grade: Moderate/ 3 hours biking

At 15.00, the Topas Mountain Express departs from Topas Ecolodge and returns to your hotel in Hanoi. Tour ends.

Meals Breakfast, Lunch

“WISH YOU HAVE AN UNFORGETTABLE JOURNEY”