Sapa Private Car Tour - 1 Day Enjoy the Rice Terraced Fields
Sa Pa7 hours
- Free cancellation
- Hotel pickup
About this experience
A local private guide + Private Car: A local guide and private car only get your needs focused, and has enough time to answer all your questions.
Private guided visit to 3 different ethnic minority villages in Sapa.
Enjoy visiting the traditional villages as well as Vietnam’s most famous rice terraces – ideal photo shooting scenery, culture, and local people.
Meeting the country’s most representative animals such as the water buffalo.
Real authentic local food.
You will get to see 60% of Sapa without trekking.
Next available dates
What’s included
- Food and drinks
- Village entrance ticket
- Local English Speaking Guide
- Air-conditioned vehicle
- Lunch
Not included
- Pick up outside from Sapa Town
- Extra drinks, personal expense, tax, insurrance
- Holiday surcharge
Itinerary
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Sapa Private Day Tour
In The Morning: Sapa – Y Linh Ho – Lao Chai – Ta Van – Hau Thao and Giang Ta Chai (15km or around 3.5 hours) The tour starts at 9:00 am. Our guide and car driver will meet you at your hotel in Sapa town or in the front of Sapa’s main church; then our team will tell you how to sit and how to keep safe on car. And then starts one day to explore Sapa by car. 9:30 am: Get to Y Linh Ho, a village of Black Hmong people. You will get see the panorama view of Muong Hoa Valley and breathtaking scenery of rice paddies. 10:00 am: Reaching Lao Chai, a traditional village of Hmong, another beautiful panorama view. Our guide will introduce the terraced rice fields and the history of Lao Chai village. 10:30 am: Take rest a short time to shooting pictures on the way, where is close to Ta Van 11:00 am: Reaching Ta Van, a village of Giay ethnic minority. 11:30 am: Getting at Hau Thao and Giang Ta Chai community, shooting photos with beautiful views. 12:00 pm: Having Lunch at Su Pan village (Small market) Afternoon: Su Pan – Thanh Kim – Ban Phung – Sapa (around 25Km = 3 hours) 1:00 pm: After lunch, you will continue the trip to Thanh Kim, a village of Red Dao people. These people still wear their traditional ethnic costumes and live lives unchanged little, for centuries. Both men and women generally cover their heads with black or red scarves. 1:30 pm: If we have time, we will continue to Ban Phung village. If no time, we will be back to Sapa from 2:30pam (it depends you go back Hanoi the same day, what time? Or will leave Sapa after the day. Please let us know?). 4:00 pm: Back to Sapa town.
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Lao Chai Village
Lao Chai Village Situated at southeast of Sapa town’s center, where black H’mong and Dzay people are living. It lies peacefully in a deep valley named Muong Hoa while embraced by marvelous ranges of Hoang Lien Son Mountain. With its irresistible temptation, will attract you at first sight. Moreover, a palette of fun awaits you in Lao Chai Village as you can have an opportunity of getting exposed to Vietnamese ethnic communities as well as taking selfies with stunning terraced fields.
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Ta Van Village
Ta Van Village: a Peaceful Destination on the Side of Sapa Coming to Ta Van, where black H’mong and Dzay people are living, visitors not only see themselves in the picturesque scenery of nature with the murmuring sound of streams and the singing of wild birds calling you to find love but also enjoy the peaceful appearance of the village. Ta Van Village owns immense paddy fields on the hill slopes, rustic thatched houses of the ethnic minorities and narrow dirt roads with colorful flowers on the two sides. All the things combine with others to draw a stunning picture in a mountainous area. A visit to Ta Van village is a journey back to the past, where people and nature live together in harmony. This village has an immediately strange attraction for those who love travelling.
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Giang Ta Chai Village
Giang Ta Chai Village Giang Ta Chai shares a border with Ta Van village – It’s a very special trekking route. Lao Chai – Ta Van – Giang Ta Chai. Giang Ta Chai village is home to the Red Dao who wear plain black trousers and a long black tunic with embroidered cuffs and lapels.
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Su Pan Village
Su Pan Village Sapa is a very mountainous commune since it perches on the mountain. Being a part of the highland on the east side of the main road, it is about 17 km from Sapa town and Su Pan commune with its 4 small hamlets is home of the Black H’mong and Red Zao Crossing the Muong Hoa River up to the mountain where is Su Pan village. Su Pan commune can be referred to as “mountainous commune”.
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Hau Thao
Hau Thao Commune in Sa Pa District hides inside blankets of soft, white clouds, among pristine forest and mountains with lush green terraced rice fields. If Sa Pa impresses visitors with stable houses, luxurious hotels and resorts, Hau Thao Commune wins people’s hearts with simple, small houses of Black Hmong people.
Good to know
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Minimum age
- 5+ years
- Languages
- British English, German, Norwegian, Finnish, Russian, Portuguese, Bulgarian, Lithuanian, Croatian, Brazilian Portuguese, French, Hungarian, Chinese (Hong Kong SAR China), Slovak, Indonesian, Serbian, Swedish, Korean, Greek, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, Czech, Vietnamese, Thai, Japanese, Polish, Danish, Hebrew, Dutch, Turkish
- Start times
- 09:00
Know before you go
- Service animals allowed
- Trekking shoes, sun glasses, sun cream, insect repellent are also necessary.
Cancellation policy
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts.
- Cancel within 24h of the start time: 100% charge.
Standard Viator policy
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