Trek through a beautiful nature of the highest mountain in Viet Nam.
4 Days Trek(Please click trip code to book)
Day 1: Rising early. The Hmong-porters pick up our baggage and start ahead, along with the cook. From our altitude of 1500 m, we pass through the market-place and leave SaPa, heading for the bottom of the valley. After a short while we pass the Hmong village of Cat Cat, where Pigs are scuffling around freely among the wooden houses, and the children look curiously at these strange people. In the bottom of the valley (1200 m) we pass the river of Y Linh Ho, carefully keeping our balance on the fragile Bamboo Bridge. We start the long climb upwards, and later in the day reach the rainforest, which softens our steps and blocks our view for a while. Before nightfall, we pick a spot in the jungle and put up our camp in 2000-m altitude. Enjoying the nocturnal sounds of the forest is a perfect background for the smell of a good evening meal, being prepared by the cook.
Day 2: We start out slowly with a minor descend, before we again move upwards. If we are lucky, we might see some of the giant butterflies living around here, reaching a size of 25 cm. At an altitude of 2700 m, the porters put up our camp for the next 2 nights. There is a fine view from here, and this will be our base camp, from which we start the final ascend the next morning.
Day 3: After an early breakfast, we set out on the final ascend. At around 2700 m the rainforest gradually gives way to huge, succulent bamboo, passing which we reach a ridge at 2900 m, and now have a magnificent view down through the long SaPa valley, over the area we have just passed, to the mountain range on the other side A few steep stretches must be passed, but nothing insurmountable, and at lunchtime we reach the summit at 3143 m. We now stand at the highest point in Vietnam, and the view is stunning, to the north into China as well as to the south and Laos, and the mountainous area with Dien Bien Phu in between. Time for a good long break, before we return to our base camp at 2700 m.
Day 4: We enjoy our morning-coffee and the sounds of nature, while the porters take down the camp and move ahead downs the mouSaPntain. Trekking back down across well-known country goes fairly quickly, and we will reach a again in the afternoon in time for a good evening meal, a hot shower, a cold drink, and other modern conveniences.
