Trekking Through Rice Terraced Fields: 1-Day Exploration of Hmong, Giay and Red Dao Villages

Embark on a 1-day trek through Hmong, Giay, and Red Dao villages in Sapa. Explore stunning rice terraced fields, learn about local cultures, and witness unique traditions.

Duration: 6 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Y Linh Ho - Y Linh Ho village.

The tour starts at 9 am. Our local guide will meet you at your hotel in Sapa Town or in front of the main church. After a brief introduction, you will be taken 2km down to Cat Cat’s road, a well-known village of the Hmong minority. From there, you will be reaching the hanging bridge of Muong Hoa river and then continue uphill into the mountains and through a bamboo forest. From there you will get the chance to admire some of the biggest and most beautiful rice terraces in Vietnam as well as enjoy the majestic mountain view on top of the Hoang Lien mountain. You will then head down to Y Linh Ho village and have lunch at a small, traditional restaurant ran by a local Hmong family.

  • Lao Chải - After the break, you will make it to Lao Chai, a village of Black Hmong
  • Ta Van Village - Continue the trekking to the Ta Van village where you will meet the Giay minority. You will learn all about the differences between the ethnic minority groups, you will see before we reach the car that will bring us back to Sapa.
What's Included
  • Bottled water included
  • Transport back to Sapa provided
  • Lunch is provided
  • Village entry fees covered
What's Not Included
  • Personal travel insurance
  • Extra drinks (e.g., bottled water or beer) at the restaurant
  • Tips
Additional Information

On this journey, you’ll be guided by our seasoned local expert through three distinctive villages inhabited by the Hmong, Giay, and Red Dao ethnic groups. This expedition offers the opportunity to appreciate magnificent mountain scenery and to visit the most prominent river and valley in Sapa.

The tour incorporates an exploration of the renowned rice terrace fields, presenting you with an understanding of the culture, customs, and traditions of the two primary ethnic minorities in Sapa.

Additionally, our tour guide will acquaint you with unique nuptial customs of the Hmong, paddy fields, labour, construction methods, and a wealth of other insights!

  • Who want to see rice fields
  • Who want learn about traditional and culture of the local people in Sapa
  • See wonderful place with amazing people
Location
Trekking Tour Sapa
Thác Bạc
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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4f_lixc
Aug 3, 2024
Amazing and unforgettable experience! - Amazing experience with Me. We have enjoyed so much. Discovering magnificents and beautiful landscapes, going through bamboo forest, crossing rivers, etc. Me was a perfect guide, very kind, with a very good English and find the perfect spots for the trekking. We totally recommend this experience and going with Me.
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748heather
Jul 26, 2024
A long awaited trek through paddy fields - Karen and I had a fantastic guided tour with Sang. She was very entertaining and informative throughout our walk in the villages. We especially loved the paddy field detail!
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Q1511hdphilippb
Jul 24, 2024
Amazing scenery - Amazing scenery, amazing people, amazing Guide. The Lady from a local village picked us up right at the hotel and we had a blast throughout the entire day. Locals are very friendly and helpful. After rainy days the Trail can be quite challenging so make sure to have good footwear. It will get slippery!
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Lmiv
Jul 18, 2024
Fantastic local tour and trek. Do it! - My husband and I loved our trekking tour. Our guide was Ly and she provided fantastic commentary along the way. Ly was extremely helpful to my husband as he was not wearing hiking boots and found the trail particularly slippery. A second older lady from the Hmong people joined us during our walk and assisted me. She also cut some bamboo to fashion a walking pole for my husband. I would thoroughly recommend this tour. The scenery and exposure to the villages and local communities was wonderful. I loved that local people were the tour guides. Everything was wonderful.
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Beatrice
Jul 10, 2024
Amazing trekking with the best tour guide Chu - This trekking is the best memory of my travel to Vietnam, and this is thanks to the amazing villages we visited and to our tour guide Chu! She is a very nice tour guide with an excellent level of English, passionate of her roots and village. We loved her! We had a wonderful adventurous experience in the rain, which made the trekking even more magical!
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Voyage664979
Jul 10, 2024
Thank you Ty 🥰 - Thank you for the great tour Ly! Our tour guide was well inform and take care of us because it was slippery, thank you again for that. It is a beauty walk to the rice field. I will recommend the tour 🙏🏼🍚🌾
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Tahlee
Jun 30, 2024
Highly recommend! - This tour had beautiful views and is a fairly easy trek. Our tour guide Say was super friendly and had really good English. Highly recommend this trek
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Mobile12150970542
Jun 29, 2024
Trekking with Som in Sapa - We had a fantastic day trekking 13km through villages in the valley. Som was our Moung guide and was so good natured, knowledgeable and had a cheeky sense of humour. Som took great care to keep us safe at all times and was great company. Beautiful scenery, highly recommend this tour. Michelle and Di
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Roelvillamor
Jun 19, 2024
a trek to remember - The trip was wonderful and informative. Soso, my tour guide, was very helpful in giving informations about the places along the path. Her excellent English made more inspired on how you give the opportunity to explore the indigenous culture of her people and with the other tribes in Northern Vietnam. It is incredibly an inspiring and wonderful experience to remember. I really appreciate Soso's dedication and work!!! Kudos to her.
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Zinamf
Jun 14, 2024
Beautiful Sapa!! - Our Sapa tour was a fantastic experience. Tung was our wonderful guide for the day. She gave us the choice of taking an easy or more challenging path and naturally, we chose the latter. The day started with rain however, this only added to the atmosphere. Tung was very supportive as we navigated the sometimes slippery path down into the valley. The views as we trekked down into the valley were amazing! We walked through rice fields, encountering water buffalo and local villagers along the way. Reaching the bottom of the valley gave you a true sense of the enormity of the surrounding mountains. Lunch at a local village also came with amazing views. Tung was very knowledgeable about local culture and we learned a lot about family life as we walked through serene villages. We loved this experience and if I were to do this again, I would do a trek over two or three days. All staff were friendly and helpful and we were able to leave our bags at the office for the day. Highly recommended. Thank you, Tung, for an amazing day!!
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