Fansipan have difficult level in group 7, Ta Lien in group 8 ( Group 1 is most difficult in Vietnam mountain)
Our program has a well organized and flexible itinerary depends on the weather so to have a smooth program, let book with Zonitrip – local Tour operator Expert.
Noi Bai International Airport (Google Map)
Your hotel in Hanoi
22h00: – Transfer to Sapa by Bus or train.
If you want to pick up in airport, you can choose to travel by sleeping bus.
If start from Old Quarter in Hanoi, you can travel by train or bus.
Meal: No
Sleep: Sleeping Cabin Vip Bus or Tourism train ( cabin 4 beds)
+ Train $34/person/way ( include bed in cabin 4 & shulte bus Lao Cai- Sapa)
+ Sleeping cabin bus Single cabin in first floor is 25usd, second floor is 19,5usd
After breakfast at hotel, you will check out and leave your luggage at the reception store.
Around 8:00 – 8:30 am, our guide and driver with local coordinator pick you up at your hotel in Sapa. You will be transferred by car to Tram Ton pass, the starting point for hiking. The journey from here to first camp is nice. The forest and small rivers running at the side of the mountain are refreshing.
Around 12h00: You will have a break at the first camp and enjoy a good lunch.
With new energy, you start a new windy journey. The track is more open and uphill. You will use more power, using both hands and legs to go up and down through the rock cliff, climbing the ladder and go through the jungle. You can see many stunning views when reaching any peak then merge between the natural forest and animals.
~16-17h00: Arrive at the campsite at 2800m in the late afternoon. Now it is time to relax and enjoy a well-prepared dinner.
Sum up:
Trekking time: 6hrs
Altitude: from 1.900m-2.800m
If you want to see the sunrise, you have to wake up and start from 3:30-4.00 am and reach the top at 6:30 am. You will experience pitch black trail and can’t see well around you, so you have to use your light because it’s very dark in the early morning. The ladder and steps will help your ascent easier. In the lucky day and the sky is clear, you can see the amazing sunrise with a fantastic view from the top of Fansipan. It’s also the time with fewer tourists from the cable car stations, so you can enjoy the scenery and take a break before descending.
Then take the cable car down. After that, our car will wait you at cable car station and transfer direct to Lai Chau ( 80km far from Sapa).
+ After dinner, Sleep in hotel in Lai Chau
Hiking time: 3hrs
Altitude: 2800m->3140m
– 07h30: Wake up and have breakfast. Then transfer by taxi to the jungle border.
~8h:30: Arrive village, change to transfer by motorbike to trekking starting point ( ~8km)
– Arrive trekking point, start to trekking. Trek through streams, jungle, black cardamom forest
– 12h00: Have lunch. After that, continue trek up through steep sloope, through jungle
~16:30-17h00: Arrive campsite Take a rest and prepare for dinner.
Sleep at a hut.
– 05h30: Wake up, eat breakfast and coffee/tea
– 06h00: Leave hut and conquer summit. This way have more diversy plant, through old jungle, moss forest and stream and quite steep route.
P/s: You can reach the summit in Day 3 if start early and have a good health. Then next day you will have time to relax more in Sapa.
~9:30- 10h: Conquer summit. Then come back same way and have lunch at the hut.
~16:00: Arrive village, take the motorbike come back
~16:30: On the car Ta Leng, come back to Sapa.
Take a rest and free time to take dinner ( by yourself) in Sapa.
-22h00 : Come back Hanoi by sleeping bus
~4:00 am: Arrive Hanoi. Tour finish.
FANSIPAN TREKKING MAP
