1. Coming to Sapa with one group:
If you want to travel to Sapa with your best friends, or your family, or maybe a group of strangers, congratulation, Sapa group tour is waiting for you. The benefits of this tour include you will add more friends during the tour, participate in collective activities, have more funs. To achive these aims, we recommend you some tips to have a great Sapa group.
- Choose a companion: The most important thing when you decide to travel with a group is to choose the right companion. You have to understand what your companion expects. To do this, you should meet and chat with them a few times before starting the journey to understand better each other.
- Helping each other: If you are a professional then you should take the time to help your companion in preparing your luggage, share experiences or suggest some helpful travel tips. This not only helps your trip smooth but also create cohesion among team members.
- Pay attention to money issue: Sapa tour price is not very high, however, money is one of the most delicate issues when talking about travelling. You must also discuss this issue with your companion. Set up a specific travel plan and calculate expenses throughout the journey.
2. Sapa local tour guide
When travelling to Sapa, especially when travelling by tour or with a big group, Sapa tour guide plays an important role. In our experience, visitors should choose Sapa local tour guides because they know deely about their cultures, they know the road and visitors can understand better about their living and how they work.
A local tour guide is the person who helps you to understand what life is like for the region’s tribespeople, introduce you Bac Ha market, the annual market of Sapa people. Moreover, the benefit of Sapa local tour guide is becoming an interpreter between the ethnic people and the visitors.
3. Sapa tour from Hanoi
From Hanoi, there are two ways to go to Sapa. Each way has its own benefit as we will mention belows:
- By bus: The advantage of going by car is to go straight to Sapa town, not stop at any station, the car also runs overnight like trains. However, traveling by car can be a problem in the rainy season. In addition, road to Lao Cai, especially when raining, is very wet and Sapa has many bumpy slopes. For those who are sick, you have to prepare a nylon bag and should choose floor 1 in order to ease up and down the car. In the car, you should get a bag of nylon to put on your slippery shoes because you will not be wearing shoes on the bed. Remember, you have to waer seatlbelt too.With just over 200,000 VND per ticket, you can choose a luxury bed with luxurious amenities such as air conditioner, flat screen TV, power outlet, water free wifi, closed toilet in European standards.
- By train: Going sapa by train will be safer and busier, but the downside is that trains go very slowly. When arriving in Lao Cai Station, visitors will have to drive another 40km to Sapa. When buying tickets, visitors should buy tickets in advance of 1 month if you want to go in peak months, or in normal days, you have to buy tickets before 3-4 days.
Guests should buy a bed and linen ticket, because the seat ticket will be very hard and you can not stretch the legs comfortably. Remember these experiences when take a Sapa tour from Hanoi.
4. Sapa unique tour
You can choose Sapa tour unique as a combination of visiting Sapa with Mount Fansipan, or trekking overnight at home of ethnic minorities such as the Muong and the Dao.
- Climbing Mount Fansipan: Fansipan Cable Car Station located in Fansipan Legend Tourist Area is about 3km from Sapa Stone Church - Sapa Town Center. You can take a taxi or walk to the cable car station. The price for a taxi is about 50,000 - 100,000 VND, it takes about 10 minutes. If walking takes about 30 minutes, you go from Stone Church on Thac Bac to Thac Bac, Nguyen Chi Thanh (about 1km), then turn left onto Nguyen Chi Thanh Street, go straight to Fansipan Legend (about 1.7 km). You can buy cable tickets directly at the station. Cable tickets are round-trip tickets for both directions and return, after you have bought the tickets and use in the first round, you must keep carefully.
- Trekking overnight: As one Sapa unique tour, trekking overnight in ethnic minorities’s house is interesting. Homestay can be a great experience here but not suitable for everyone. A homestay experience means that you stay overnight in the homes of locals, which must be registered for tourist activities. This means that the house must have a toilet, a bed with mosquito nets and must be clean, hygienic. When visiting the village and seeing a place which is a clean, cool place, you should not stop and eat there because it is probably the place for worshipping. Every day people can go about 12km to 15km. So you can depend on it to go on a detailed journey and study the terrain where you are going and calculate reasonable distance to avoid dangerous situations. Watching weather forecast and travel information Sa Pa before making a trekking journey is an important task.
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