Your tour guide will pick you up from your hotel in Sa Pa at 9.30 AM or welcome you at the local office to meet your group and start the walk along the main road heading south for about twenty minutes. You will then turn right onto a footpath downhill to the Muong Hoa Valley, where the first village is situated - Y Linh Ho, the home of the Black Mong people. You will meet the local people and also make friend with them

Around noon, you will arrive in Lao Chai Village, where you can admire the most beautiful rice terrace fields in Vietnam. Lao Chai is the center of the Muong Hoa Valley and you can enjoy your lunch near the river. Taste the local food of the Black Mong community, before trekking to Ta Van village after the break. Visit local houses to learn more about the weaving, animal farming and rice cultivation of local minorities.

Please respect the local customs when you visit their homes: do not take pictures of children without the permission of the parents or touch the children’s heads. You will learn more about this from your tour guide on the trek. Arriving at Ta Van village, you will meet the Dzay people, which differ greatly from the Black Mong people in their clothes, language and housing. At around 2.30 PM, take the bus back to Sa Pa, being dropped off at the local office, where you can continue to your hotel on your own.