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Charity Tour to Ethnic Children in Sapa
Tour Overview
Although Sapa is known as a popular tourist
attraction, many families’ living standard of
Hmong, Dzao, Dzay ethnic groups are still
below the average, they are lacking of hygiene
food, water supplies, equipments to do
farming. Most of children have to stay at
home to help their parents to do housework,
they do not have chance to go school. We will
do charity in Lao Chai, Cat Cat village to help
the children there to reduce the burden of life.
Tour outline:
Day 1: Hanoi arrival (welcoming dinner and water puppet show)
Day 2: Hanoi city tour and night train to Sapa (Soft sleeper in AC wooden cabin) (B, L)
Day 3: Lao Cai Station – Sapa and do charity in Ta Van village (B, L, D)
Day 4: Do charity in Cat Cat village and night train to Hanoi (B, L)
Day 5: Relaxing and charity briefing before departure (B)
Tour itinerary:
Day 1: Hanoi arrival (D, WP)
Arriving at Noi Bai airport in Hanoi, our tour guide and driver will pick you up and
transfer to your hotel. Relax after your journey before a ‘Welcome dinner’ at a traditional
restaurant with Vietnamese cuisines. In the evening, you will have tickets for a
performance of traditional Water Puppetry, an art form unique to northern Vietnam, and a
good, light-hearted introduction to its rural culture, over night in Hanoi Imperial hotel.
Day 2: Hanoi with a quick look – night
train to Sapa (B, L)
After breakfast, our tour guide will pick
you up and transfer to visit Temple of
Literature, the first university in Vietnam
dating back to the 11th century, and a
popular attraction, as is Ho Chi Minh’s
Mausoleum. Lunch will be served in a
local restaurant before drive back to
downtown for refreshment by Hoan Kiem
17A Hang Dong Street, Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi, Vietnam
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Lake with a cup of tea or coffee. The tour is followed by 1 hour drive on cyclo to observe
the daily life of Hanoian, along the narrow and bustling streets. Most of them are named
starting with “Hang” plus the current on sale goods. Dinner is for your choice. 7h30pm,
our guide will take you to train station for night train to Lao Cai, overnight on train.
Day 3: Lao Cai station – Sapa – Lao Chai – Ta Van (B, L, D)
Upon arrival in Sapa Town we have breakfast in local restaurant, after that, start a day
trekking through the terrace fields to go further to the most remote and poorest village
where local people meet lots of difficulties with their life. We visit their families; offer
children foods, course books, clothes. We will meet local authority to support scholarship
for the poorest children. Stay overnight with the local people in their house.
Day 4: Ta Van - Sapa – Cat Cat with charity program and night train to Hanoi (B,
L)
Located just 3 km from Sapa town, Cat Cat is a home for Black Hmong ethnic group.
They meet a lot of difficulty in clean water supplies. This causes some diseases such as
diarrhea, intestinal diseases, mental retardation…We go there to give them medicine to
reduce those diseases. We also give the children books, clothes and some money to help
their parents reduce their hard work. You go back to hotel for showering and then our car
will transfer you to Lao Cai station for overnight train back to Hanoi.
Day 5: Arrive back to Hanoi (B)
We pick you up at station and transfer to hotel for early check in, spend the whole
morning for relaxing, shopping before going to airport.
Trip Notes:
Accommodation and foods: We aim to do charity, so staying in 3 star hotel in Hanoi is
the best solution that makes you feel healthy and comfortable or even safe. In Sapa, you
should stay overnight with the local to understand clearly their daily life and how they
live. It will be the remarkable memory in this tour. You will enjoy the absolute local
foods cooked by local people with hygiene and quality.
What to bring: You had better take sun cream, hiking boots, bottled water, and
comfortable clothes. GAT travel’s staff will wrap all necessary charity offerings in to a
box together with your offerings. We make sure all of this hand directly to poor children,
cash donation should be handling to poor family, and you will do that directly.
Guide acted as interpreter: Our guide will help you with Vietnamese-English/French or
reverse conversations with our staff’s support to pre-contact to local government and
authority under the name of our company.
17A Hang Dong Street, Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi, Vietnam
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Tour Prices:
Tour name: Charity tour to ethnic children in Sapa
Duration: 5 days and 4 nights from Hanoi
Rate: On request
Tour included:
- Accommodation: in local house
- Transfers by private air-conditioned vehicle as specified in the itinerary
- Return train tickets: Hanoi - Lao Cai – Hanoi by A/C soft sleeper cabin
- Experienced English-speaking guides acted as interpreter
- Entry fees for all visits as mentioned in itinerary
- Meals as indicated in itinerary
Tour excluded:
- International and domestic flights
- Visas & visa fee, travel insurance, tips & gratuities
- Personal expenditure like shopping, drink, laundry, phone
17A Hang Dong Street, Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi, Vietnam