Russian farmtrip group to survey trans-Viet route

A farmtrip group of ten Russian businesses is expected to visit Vietnam in the fourth quarter of 2012. During the eight-day visit, the group will survey the trans-Viet route to Hanoi, Halong, Hue, Hoi An, Danang, My Tho and Ho Chi Minh City.

Russia is currently the most potentially important tourism market of Vietnam and the Vietnam National Tourism Administration welcoming the farmtrip group is part of the national tourism promotion programme in 2012.  In 2011, Russia jumped from the 25th to 11th place among the tourist markets in Vietnam. Vietnam attracts Russian tourists due to affordable prices, safety, good service and beautiful landscapes. However, Russian tourists mainly flock to Vietnam’s central coastal provinces such as Nha Trang (Khanh Hoa), Mui Ne (Binh Thuan), Hoi An and Danang.  The survey in some destinations in Southern and Northern Vietnam lays the foundation and offers opportunities for setting tour schedules and bringing Russian tourists to Vietnam.

(Source: Van Hoa News)

Vietnam Discovery Travel - Sapa

SAPA EASY TREKKING AND HOMESTAY

Duration: 2 Day / 3 Nights After the overnight train journey from Hanoi, you will be exploring Sapa and its beautiful southern valley for two days with one night home stay in Ta Van village of the Zay minority peoples. The trek from Sapa along Muong Hoa River, passing villages of the H’mong, Zay and Zao will offers spectacular scenery and a lot opportunities to get intact with local ethnic peoples for your new cultures discovery.  The Night Before: Transfer from your hotel to Hanoi Train Station for boarding at 21:30 train leaving for Lao Cai. Overnight on train in a 4-berth soft sleeper cabin. The train arrives in Lao Cai at about 6:30 am where our guide and driver pick you up for transferring to Sapa.. Day 1: Lao Cai-Sapa-Y Linh Ho-Lao Chai-Ta Van (B, L, D) Picked up at Lao Cai Station upon your early arrival for over an hour drive uphill in a shared mini van to Sapa. After freshen up and Breakfast in a local restaurant you will enjoy a free walk around this charming town, paying visit to Sapa market and the old cathedral where you can meet a lot of local ethnic minority peoples such as Black H’mong and Red Zao wearing their traditional colorful dresses selling their farming and gathering products and handicrafts for souvenir. Back to our Sapa office at about 10.30 and begin your exploration trip to Muong Hoa valley. You will follow the main road heading south for about an hour before turning right to a foot path down hill to Muong Hoa Valley. This part offers spectacular scenery of the highest part of Hoang Lien Son mountain range and in a nice day, Fansipan Peak can be seen. Crossing the river by a suspension bridge you will challenge your feet uphill to Y Linh Ho village. Here you will pay visiting to some H’mong families, watching them doing their daily works. After picnic Lunch, the trail continues up and down hill for about 2 hours as you reach to Lao Chai, a large village of the H’mong and then following the river bank to Ta Van of the Zay people. Paying visiting to local homes, village schools… you will enjoy much your cultural discovery of local ethnic peoples as well as breathtaking scenery of the Muong Hoa Valley. Settle down in Ta Van village for an overnight home stay. • Breakfast and Lunch and Dinner included • Accommodation: Home stay in Ta Van Village   Day 2: Ta Van - Giang Ta Chai - Sapa  (B, L, D) Leaving Ta Van village after Breakfast, you will take the trail uphill, passing fascinating terraced rice field and some small hamlets of the H’mong before getting through a bamboo forest to a waterfall, enjoy a break for magnificent scenery and then continue walking for half an hour to Giang Ta Chai village of the Red Zao peoples which sits on the top of a hill and looks down Muong Hoa river. After spendingtime visiting the village, making friend with the Zao and experiencing the hospitality you will cross the river by another suspension bridge and then uphill again to Hau Thao village where you will pay visiting to a local handicraft center where H’mong and Zao women gather for exchanging experience and skill of making handicrafts. A late Lunch will be prepare here nearby this center and then you have time relaxing as well as getting acquaintance with local school boys, girls and their teachers as well. Later a short drive will take you back to Sapa. Enjoy about two hours free time in Sapa before transfer down hill to Lao Cai station to take the overnight train back to Hanoi, Have dinner before getting the train at 19h35 • Overnight on the train. Arrive in Hanoi early in the morning next day. Back to your hotel on your own. (A morning taxi to the old quarter from the station usually costs 50,000VND). Trip Notes :  Tour highlights • Trekking to Y Linh Ho, Lao Chai, Ta Van, Giang Ta Chai village • Colorful local ethnic minority groups • 2 Nights homestay / hotel stay on request Tour remarks • Tour code: TSP698 • Type: Join group / Private on request • Trek difficulty: Easy  What to bring: Suitable walking shoes, raincoats, jackets, torch, insect repellent and sunscreen

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