Can Cau Market is a small, but very colourful market, set in the mountains near the Chinese border. The Flower Hmong minority is the most common here, and their colourful dresses makes is a beautiful sight.

At 20h30 pickup from your hotel in Hanoi or from Little Vietnam Tours office. Transfer to railway station for a night train at 21h30 to Sapa (Soft sleeper with A/C).

Day1: Lao Cai - Sapa - Cat Cat - Lao Chai - Ta Van (B/L/D)
Pick up at Lao Cai station by Mini bus to Sapa. Arrive in Sa Pa at 9.00AM. Breakfast and relax. Start trekking to Cat Cat village for the H’Mong minority, hydroelectric power station and the waterfall. Have lunch. Then go along a beautiful valley between mountains for the next village called Y Linh Ho. Get down to Lao Chai village and then stop at Ta Van village. Have dinner and spend the night in a Dzay family.

Day 2: Ta Van - Giang Ta Chai - Su Pan - Sapa (B/L/D)
Get up early in the morning for fresh atmosphere in the countryside. Breakfast and continue for the next village of the Red Dzao minority (Giang Ta Chai village). Visit Silver waterfall and a nice Rattan Bridge. Have lunch en-route. Cross the river and go up to the mountain for Su Pan village and then back to Sapa by jeep. Have dinner at hotel. Free time and O/N in Sa Pa.

Day 3: Sapa - Can Cau market - Lao Cai - Hanoi (Tue; B/L/D)
Have breakfast at hotel, then leave Sapa early at 7:00 AM for Can Cau market. It takes more than 2 hours to get to Can Cau - a small market situated in a valley surrounded by mountains and only 7 km from China. The market deeply shows the typical cultural features of the minorities in remote mountainous areas in Vietnam. Further more, you can enjoy seeing boys and girls in colorful costumes - different colors of the mountains. They attend the market in the hope of finding "lovers" and this is also the time for them to talk to each other, make friends, and to exchange everything among different ethnic peoples through cups of wine sold in the market. Say goodbye to the lovely local people, and then take a car/van back to Lao Cai Station for the night train to Hanoi. Have dinner before getting on the train. Arrive in Hanoi roughly 4:30 AM. End of the trip.