Coc Ly Market (Tuesday) – Sapa Tour – 2 Days
This market is only available on Tuesday, the market of Flower Hmong, Black Zao, Phu La, Nung and Tay minority. After the market trip, you will take a boat ride along Chay River and a short walk to Trung Do village of Tay...
Tour Duration: 2 day/3 nights
Tour Route: Hanoi arrival - Lao Cai - Coc Ly Tuesday market - Sapa - Lao Chai - Ta Van - Sapa - Lao Cai - Hanoi
Starts / Ends: Hanoi
Tour Level: Moderate
Group size: Private tour only
Tour Customizable: Absolutely! (Tell us your specific requirements in the inquiry form)
BRIEF ITINERARY:
Day 01: ( MON) Hanoi – Lao Cai (Train)
Day 02: (TUE) Lao Cai – Coc Ly Tuesday market - Sapa (B, L)
Day 03: (WED) Sapa - Lao Chai - Ta Van - Sapa – Lao Cai (B, L)
Day 04: Hanoi
Day 01: ( MON) Hanoi – Lao Cai (Train)
In the evening our tour guide will pick you up from your hotel and transfer to the train station. You will catch the overnight train soft sleeper with AC to Lao Cai. The train leaves at 22:00 from Hanoi railway station.
Day 02: (TUE) Lao Cai – Coc Ly Tuesday market - Sapa (B, L)
After meeting a guide at the Lao Cai railway station we have breakfast there and go to the Coc Ly Market for two hours by a van. The ride is relatively flat from Lao Cai. It will take you through rural area. The road is rougher for the last 30km. You arrive in Coc Ly by the time where the market is the most crowded.
Coc Ly market locates by the Chay River, which flows from China. Every Tuesday morning, minorities from surrounding villages such as Flower Hmong, Black Zao and Tay, gather to sell and buy their products. After visiting the market, you travel by boat downstream. Along the ride, you can enjoy magnificent sight of the beautiful caves and life on the riverbank. You will have lunch on a beach or later in a village.
The trip will also offers you a visit to Trung Do village of Tay minority, where you can stop by a traditional Tay house for a cup of tea. You will go further downstream until you arrive to Bao Nhai Bridge. Here you get on the car for the journey back to Sapa. vernight in Sapa.
Day 03: (WED) Sapa - Lao Chai - Ta Van - Sapa – Lao Cai (B, L)
After having breakfast in a hotel we embark on a lovely trek that will take us along buffalo paths and trails and through several hill tribe villages Lao Chai & Ta Van, home to Black H'mong, and Dzay people. This is an absolutely spectacular walk through stunning scenery inhabited by someof the friendliest people you can meet. Once on the valley floor you can really appreciate the wonderful scenery that surrounds you. The walls of the valley are covered with multi-layered rice terraced fields and scattered villages. Return to Sapa and then to Lao Cai railway station to get night train to Hanoi. The guide sees you off at Lao Cai train station and takes you on the train.
Day 04: Hanoi
Arrival Hanoi in the early morning, back to your hotel by yourself. End of all the services.
