Day 1: Ho Chi Minh City – Ha Noi – Lao Cai (dinner)

Fly to Hanoi, catch a taxi to Hanoi downtown from the airport by yourselves. Afternoon: all team members meet together in Hanoi. Have dinner. Go to Lao Cai by night train. Spend the night on board.

Day 2: Lao Cai - Sapa – Tram Ton pass – Shack 1 (breakfast, lunch, dinner)

Arrive in Lao Cai in the early morning. Pick up and transfer to Sapa. Have breakfast in Sapa. Meet with the tour guide and porter to share the work and pack up. Bus takes everyone to Tram Ton (1,934m). Register to go into Hoang Lien National Park at the altitude 1,934m. Climb mountain. Have hot lunch in Bai Soi. Continue to cross the jungle to Shack 1 at the altitude 2,235m. Team will hike about 3,5km for whole day. Have hot dinner and spend the night in tents.

Day 3: Shack – Fansipan Peak - Shack 2 (breakfast, lunch, dinner)

Have breakfast. Start the longest day of hiking. Leave shack 1, ridge route, hike through short bamboo forest between the divide at the altitude 2,800 – 2,900m. Conquer Fansipan Peak at 3,143m. Picnic lunch at the peak. Continue to hike cross forest to Shack 2 right under the canopy of fir-tree forest at the altitude 2,664m. Team will hike about 6.7km for whole day. Have hot dinner and spend the night in tents.

Day 4: Shack 2 – Fir-tree forest– Cardamon forest (breakfast, lunch, dinner)

Have breakfast. Start a day to the most difficult road, but the landscape is so beautiful. Walk back up the stream, cross ridgeway. Down to the eastern side of Hoang Lien Son, walk under wild, thick forest of fir-tree and water-rail. Picnic lunch at fir-tree forest. Continue to cross many abysses to cardamom forest (2,031m). All day to pass 4,6km. Have dinner and spend night in tents.

Day 5: Cardamon forest – Sapa – Lao Cai (breakfast, lunch, dinner)

Have breakfast. Down hills continuously to Golden stream (Suoi Vang) then pass Cat Cat suspension bridge (1,247m), half day hiking will pass 3.9km. Van will pick visitors at Cat Cat to return back Sapa. Have lunch at Sapa. Check in hotel and rest at Sapa. Go down to Lao Cai in the afternoon. Have dinner and close the trip at Lao Cai. Get on and spend the night on train back to Hanoi.

Day 6: Lao Cai – Ha Noi – Ho Chi Minh City (breakfast)

Arrive Hanoi in early morning. Have breakfast. Farewell. Visitors go to the airport by themselves, fly back Ho Chi Minh City. End of service.

Note: If you join Conquer Fansipan in 3 days, after reaching to the top, you will come back by the same route together with your porter. Spend the night at the altitude 2,900m on the third day (have shack). Will walk back Tram Ton the next day and van will take you back Sapa, spend night at hotel on the fourth day. You arrange your meals by yourselve when staying at hotel in Sapa.

Seat-in-coach tour price for 3-4 days climbing on Fansipan: 4.720.000 VND/ person.

Conditions:

• Next seat-in-coach tour: 7-12 February 2009 (falling on 13-18 January in the lunar year)
• Applies for groups of more than 10 guests.
• Price is applied until April 15th, 2009.

Services include:

Climb mountain in 3 days

• Train ticket (sleeping): Ha Noi – Lao Cai – Ha Noi.
• Taxi picks up visitors from restaurant in Hanoi to Hanoi train station, van will pick up from Lao Cai train station – Sapa – Lao Cai, van from Sapa – Tram Ton – Sapa.
• Meals: dinner in Hanoi, breakfast in Sapa, dinner in Lao Cai.
• Service of climbing Fansipan in 2 days: Vietmark guide, H’mong porter (each porter carries 5kg personal luggage/ visitor), team leader, full board meals during trekking as mentioned in program, tents, sleeping bag.
• Hotel (3*, twin-sharing): 1.5 days in Sapa.
• Other service: insurance, Vietnamese flag to pitch on the top of mountain, first-aid kit, walky-talkie, GPS, and Vietmark tour hat.

Climb mountain in 4 days

• Train ticket (sleeping): Noi – Lao Cai – Ha Noi.
• Taxi picks up visitors from restaurant in Hanoi to Hanoi train station, van will pick up from Lao Cai train station – Sapa – Lao Cai, van from Sapa – Tram Ton, van from Cat Cat– Sapa.
• Meals: dinner in Hanoi, breakfast in Sapa, dinner in Lao Cai.
• Service of climbing Fansipan in 4 days: Vietmark guide, H’mong porter (each porter carries 5kg personal luggage/ visitor), team leader, full board meals as mentioned in program, tents, sleeping bag. 4.
• Hotel (3*, twin-sharing): ½ day in Sapa.
• Other service: insurance, Vietnamese flag to pitch on the top of mountain, first-aid kit, walky-talkie, GPS, and Vietmark tour hat.

Services do not include:

• Airfare to Hanoi.
• Food and beverage outside of the program,.
• Personal expenses
• Single supplement.
• VAT.