Tour organizer:Departure from: Lao Cai or Hanoi
Duration: 1 day
Itinerary:
You will arrive Lao Cai train station by 6h30 when you get picked up and taken to the restaurant nearby for breakfast and some break time. Leave for Bacha Market after your breakfast. After crossing the bridge Bao Nhai, we begin our journey up to Bac Ha.
Every Sunday, the different and colorful ethnic minority including Hmong, Phu La, Back Dzao, Tay or Nung come all here to sell their homemade products or buy something for the family. Free time for visiting one of the most colourfull market in the world. 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.
After lunch leave the market for visiting the H'mong King's house (King Hoang A Tuong) built by the French colonists and the Chinese in 1920, short walking to see BanPho village where is homeland of flower Hmong.
In the afternoon, we drive downhill towards Lao Cai. We stop on the way (before reaching Lao Cai) to take a short walk to Trung Do village inhabited by Tay people. Stop by a traditional Tay house for a cup of tea before taking a boat cruise upstream the Chay River. The boat trip will end at Bao Nhai bridge where your vehicle will be waiting for you for the journey back to Lao Cai.
On the way back, drop in to see the Vietnamese and Chinese Harbor Mouth in LaoCai.
