Day 8:

Lao Cai – Sapa – hike to Cat Cat village

The train arrives at Lao Cai train station at approximately 6:30am. Meet your guide and driver at the train station and have buffet breakfast in town before a transfer takes you up to Sapa on spiral mountain road. It' wonderful time to see rice terraced paddies, beautiful mountains and green valleys all the ways to Sapa town. On arrive in Sapa, check in hotel, after lunch in town, we start our trekking to Cat Cat village. In the early twentieth century, French discovered and made this land become a resort for Frech army officials in Indochina. With a beautiful waterfall on the way to village and the word "waterfall” pronounced “cascade“ in French. Since then the mane of this village called Cat Cat by locals and Vietnam. Cat Cat is a peaceful village with amazing terraced fields, beautiful views and traditional customs of the H’Mong ethnic tribe. We can the old hydro-electric power station which was built by French in the early 20th century. Meet black Hmong people working on farmlands, see buffaloes, cows working on rice paddies when we hiking. Here we have the opportunity to share cultural experiences with families that live in the area. Return to Sapa by car

Sapa
Breakfast/ Lunch