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4-12 Sep 2010

Sapa Minority Trek, Homestay and Ha Long Bay Cruise - Vietnam

Hanoi is a beautiful city which retains an air of French colonial elegance with pretty yellow stucco buildings lining leafy streets - a big contrast to bustling Ho Chi Minh in the south.

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The Expedition

About 160-km northeast from Hanoi lies the magnificent Halong Bay, an amazing complex of 3000 chalk islands rising out of the South China Sea - strange, eerie and very beautiful with bizarre cave formations & grottoes. A World Heritage site since 1994.

Up north 250-km from Hanoi, high in the Hoang Lien mountains, is the old hill station of Sapa (1600-m). This area is inhabited by the H'mong and Zhao hill tribes. Every weekend there is a market when the local people come into town to trade. This is also an area where tourists have to be sensitive to local culture and traditions.

A travel style that’s uniquely Adventure Quests
  • Small group travel
  • Limited to 20 persons each group
  • At least 2 guides each trip (1 local guide + 1 Adventure Quests' trip leader)
  • Promote eco travelling
Highlights
  • 3D trekking in spectacular Sapa landscapes with ethnic minority guide
  • 1D Bac Ha Market visit
  • 2N staying with local families experiencing the lives of the ethnic minority people

Thank You for the Memories

A photography workshop

Be part of a 6-Day workshop in Sapa. Share in the fulfilling humanitarian adventure where with photos, you create lasting memories of the less well off ethnic minority families who have had few or no family portraits taken. This workshop is for photographers to utilize their photography skills to give back to the local communities they travel to.

Also:
  • An exclusive private photography session with the puppeteers of the famous water puppets troop in Hanoi
  • Stay in an ecologde

Tour Price Includes

Included
  • Accommodation as stated in itinerary including Maison d'Hanoi - one of the most stylish boutique hotels in Hanoi
  • All local land & boat transfers
  • All meals provided
  • All local tours with entrance fees included
  • Local Vietnamese guide for adventure outings
Excluded
  • Return airfares Singapore - Hanoi
  • Meals not indicated
  • Personal gear; walking pole, back pack
  • Tipping fee to guide
  • Personal Travel Insurance
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Tour price ex-Bangkok: US$1,190

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Asian Geographic Magazines Pte Ltd
(Silk Road Part IV Expedition 2010)
No. 1 Syed Alwi Road #06-01
Singapore 207628

Or fax it to: (+65) 6291 2068

For reservations and more information on the expedition, please contact Sharon at: Tel (+65) 6536 9282

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Ha Long Bay Cruise

Day 1 Singapore–Hanoi

Pick up at the airport, transfer to Hanoi station for the night train to Sapa at 10:00pm.



Day 2 Bac Ha Market Visit (B/L/D)


The biggest local Sunday market for the ethnic minorities. 



Day 3–5 Sapa Trek


Enjoy spectacular landscapes and ethnic minority people on this 3D2N trekking to the remote North-western Highlands. Sapa's countryside is carved by dramatic rice terraces, and dotted with the clay and thatch houses of the various ethnic groups.

Cross rivers and waterfalls and visit various villages with time to learn about the cultures and traditions of the minority people like the weaving of the traditional cloth using marijuana hemp and natural dye from indigo flowers. Some of the women's fingers are permanently blue due to long-term exposure to the dye.

Day 5 Night

Night train transfer back to Hanoi (B/L/D) 


Day 6–7 Ha Long Bay Private Cruise

2D/1N (B/L/D)

Day 7 back in Hanoi

Dinner will be on your own; a chance to sample the many different cuisine – local Vietnamese, French, International.


Day 8 Hanoi (B/L/D)

1 day tour in Hanoi where you will stay at Maison d’Hanoi Hanova Hotel – one of the most stylish boutique hotels in Hanoi.


Day 9 Hanoi-Singapore

Transfer to airport, back to Singapore (B)

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