- Level of Difficulty: MODERATE
- Time: 2 days/1 night
- Trekking: sealed road, local paths, rice terraces
- Ethnic Minorities: Zay, Red Dao, Tay
Day 1: Sapa – Ta Van – Giang Ta Chai – Ban Ho
This trip takes the traveler further down the Muong Hoa Valley to the village of Ban Ho to meet and stay with people of the Tay minority. For more information about the walking component of this trek.
We take a jeep and travel to the village of Ta Van home of the Tay people. This is the only village in the Sapa area where the Zay people live. We spend time looking around the village. We leave the village and begin our trek walking along local paths and through rice terraces & scattered settlements to the Red village of Giang Ta Chai, home of the Red Dao mi – nority with their colourful traditional dress. We enjoy our picnic lunch at Giang Ta Chai or at an appropriate spot on the walk.
After our lunch, we walk along local paths up the side of the valley and on the sealed road to Su Pan. It’s a gradual decent from Su Pan through forest to the village of Ban Ho where we have time to observe the local life of people of the Tay minority. In good weather, we can walk to the river where it’s possible to swim.
Later in the afternoon, we meet our local Tay hosts in their home. Our hosts and guide will prepare our evening meal and the rest of the eve – ning can be spent getting to know more about family life in Ban Ho or strolling around the village.
Day 2: Ban Ho – Sapa
After our breakfast, there’s more time to look around and experience life in this delightful village. It’s an easy and enjoyable morning and there is the opportunity (if the group wishes) to go swimming (weather permitting) or to visit the hot springs.
We have our lunch in Ban Ho or at an appropriate spot. We either make the steep acent back up the valley to the sealed road and to Su Pan where our jeep/motorbikes awaits to take us back to Sapa or we will take a jeep from Ban Ho Village.
