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Trekking Through Rice Terraced Fields - 1Day​
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Trekking Through Rice Terraced Fields - 1Day​

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In this tour, you will be taken by our experienced local guide across three different villages of the Hmong, Giay and Red Dao ethnic minorities. The tour will give you the chance to enjoy fantastic mountain landscapes as well as to see Sapa’s most significant river and valley. You will also see the famous rice terrace fields and learn more about the culture, customs, and traditions of the two main different ethnic minorities in Sapa. Our tour guide will also introduce you to Hmong’s unique marriage traditions, rice fields, work, and house building techniques, and much more!
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Ages 5-65, max of 15 per group
Duration: 5–6 hours
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  • Local foods with vegetables, meat, and vegetarian as well.
  • One small of water per person
  • Village entry fees
  • Transport back to Sapa
  • Entry/Admission - Y Linh Ho
  • Entry/Admission - Sapa
  • Entry/Admission - Ta Van Village
What's not included
  • Personal travel insurance
  • Extra drinks (e.g., bottled water or beer) at the restaurant
  • Tips


Start:Multiple pickup locations offered.
  • Trekking Tour Sapa, 09 Thác Bạc, TT. Sa Pa, Sa Pa, Lào Cai 330000, Vietnam
Pickup details
  • We will meet at your hotel in Sapa town or at our Office at 09 Thac Bac Road.
Hotel pickup offered
During checkout you will be able to select from the list of included hotels.
    End:This activity ends back at the meeting point.

      • Not wheelchair accessible
      • Near public transportation
      If you have questions about accessibility, we’d be happy to help. Just call the number below and reference the product code: 195643P1

      • Confirmation will be received at time of booking
      • Not recommended for travellers with back problems
      • Not recommended for pregnant travellers
      • No heart problems or other serious medical conditions
      • Travellers should have a moderate physical fitness level
      • 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
      • This tour/activity will have a maximum of 15 travellers

      • For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours in advance of the start date of the experience.

      If you have questions about this tour or need help making your booking, we’d be happy to help. Just call the number below and reference the product code: 195643P1

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      • Trekking Tour Sapa
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        Sapa, Vietnam
        Joined in October 2018
      • Safari63970854428
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        5
        The trip is amazing and Tour guide she is very helpful . We have enjoyed and do a lot of activities.we have ate the local food which is very delicious.
        Written 7 December 2024
      • jeromeleung
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        5.0 of 5 bubbles
        AMAZING Trip and Friendly Guide
        Our tour guide Tung is amazing! Had such a great time in Sapa! The homestay was also clean and decent! LOVE IY! Would 100% recommend~
        Written 4 December 2024
      • mylY5390YT
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        4.0 of 5 bubbles
        Wonderful
        Our tour guide Tung is a nice lady, who shared ethic minorities’ culture and brought us so much laughter. The homestay is comfortable! Wonderful experience
        Written 4 December 2024
      • Jet60883181983
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        Loved it!
        I went on 3d/2n trekking with the amazing Soso as a guide. She's a wonderful and knowledgeable guide that speaks great English. We were never in a rush and had time to enjoy, talk and learn about the local places and traditions. More then a wonderful guide she was someone that I really enjoy the company for this 3 days. Thank you so very much Soso!! Even though the weather was not great the experience was still amazing and I definitely recommend it. The home stays are very comfortable and welcoming, the owners and their families are lovely and the food is amaaaaazing. Hugo Sousa
        Written 4 December 2024
      • beckywR9620ZW
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        5.0 of 5 bubbles
        Sang is the best guide
        Amazing!!! Our guide Sang was incredible - she was so enthusiastic and offered so much interesting information about the area, culture and her life. Homestay was lovely - private room, WiFi, hot shower. Ate a delicious dinner with our host. Breakfast was also yummy pancakes and fruit. Couldn’t recommend Sang and the company enough
        Written 4 December 2024
      • 672guusk
        0 contributions
        5.0 of 5 bubbles
        Amazing trek office with local tourguides!
        Really good trekking office. Lovely lady that is able to explain the different options. She gave us a great recommendation based on our preferences and the pricing is good. Also an excellent local tourguide with good understandings of the local culture. Would 100% recommend! We did the cow hill trek and this is great if you like hiking up a mountain.
        Written 3 December 2024
      • Murray R
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        5.0 of 5 bubbles
        Challenging, rewarding, beautiful, unique.
        This was exactly the trekking experience I was hoping for. Through rice terraces, bamboo forests, mountain passes, staying at delightful homesteads. The trek was designed by our guide Zhu, taking us along tracks off the beaten track. Highly recommended.
        Written 1 December 2024
      • sarahmE3851DJ
        0 contributions
        5.0 of 5 bubbles
        Sapa homestay
        We had Soso as our tour guide and she was amazing! She answered all our questions, was very patient and helpful. Scenery was beautiful, a once in a lifetime experience. Home stay was very clean and we got to experience preparing and eating a traditional Sapa village family meal. Highly recommend.
        Written 30 November 2024
      • MarijkeR4
        0 contributions
        5.0 of 5 bubbles
        sapa
        nice trek, super guide thung, also giving us the option of the easy way or the hard way. fast communication through whatsapp, worte them 7:00 in the morning if we could mive our trek up to the same day, no problem at all, 2 hours later we were on our way
        Written 25 November 2024
      • Travel14871275766
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        Ask for Me to be your tour guide!
        Our trekking was led by Me. She is a local from the Hmong tribe. It's amazing how much she knows about the area, the culture and habits of the different tribes. We enjoyed the hike with her a lot as she was very interested and willing to share. We also had the best food in the homestay we stayed at night, which was prepared by the hosts themselves.. by far one of the best meals we enjoyed during our whole stay in Vietnam. The only downside is the lunch places of both days - you eat in restaurants where all tourist tours meet again - I'd prefered something less touristic.
        Written 23 November 2024
      • Maps42993992044
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        1 day trekking tour
        My guide is Ly, done a terrific job! Very caring and give us a deep tour around the village! Highly recommend you to book this tour🥰
        Written 18 November 2024
      • jimmyt616
        0 contributions
        5.0 of 5 bubbles
        Hiking through the Sapa valley and learning about the different minority communities
        We had a great experience with our guide, Hau So. The experience was tailored so that we couldn’t up to see the top of Fansipan the first day. Note that even taking the cable car to the top, there is still quite a bit of additional steps/hiking to get to the peak. The second half of the first day was spent hiking to our first homestay. Note that the hiking does involve a lot of elevation which was challenging on the knees. Pack as light as possible. For the best experience, be open minded and willing to learn about the communities that you will be trekking through. Ask lots of questions. The people in the community are very kind.
        Written 18 November 2024
      • nottrippy
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        Lovely local experience in the villages of Sapa
        If you want to see the beautiful Sapa villages area with a local guide, this is the best way to go. Our guide So took us from Sapa town to see Fansipan and then walked us to the local villages to see the bamboo forest, rice paddies and to stay at home stays - comfortable bed and breakfasts hosted by village families. Our hikes were 10 miles each day, stopping at picturesque lunches on the way. Highly recommended when in Vietnam!
        Written 18 November 2024
      • fringilo
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        Private tour
        We had a private tour through rice fields. We really enjoyed our trek. Our guide Say took us through nice fields that would we never find if we would be without guide. She also explained to us way of life in the villages.
        Written 15 November 2024
      • acO8692VA
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        2 day - 1 night Trek Review
        We did a 2 day / 1 night trek and it was amazing! Our guide (Chau) was so friendly and nice and was full of knowledge and answered all of our many questions about the animals, tribes, rice fields etc. The trek was a bit of a challenge but definitely worth it, a once in a lifetime experience! Any photos you've ever seen don't do justice. You need to book this tour and see for yourself, you will be in awe! The food was also very good, you won't go hungry I promise. This is our favourite experience in Vietnam so far. :) :)
        Written 11 November 2024
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      Robert Bandemer
      Munich, Germany3 contributions
      1.0 of 5 bubbles
      Not recommended!
      We booked a one-day trekking tour in Sa Pa. The website advertises English-speaking guides, but unfortunately we got a tour guide who spoke very little English. After a few sentences, our guide no longer understood us and it was impossible to get answers to our questions. We therefore learned absolutely nothing about Hmong culture, not even about the wedding culture advertised on the website.
      In addition, our guide was often on his cell phone and preferred to make TikTok videos rather than try to explain anything to us. We also ate alone at lunch (which wasn't really good either).
      After lunch, we met a woman who hiked down with us. Our tour guide introduced her as a friend. When we got downstairs, the woman tried to sell us clothes, which was very unpleasant because she reacted very rudely after we said no.
      Our tour guide ended up following us into the hotel lobby and probably wanted a tip from us. We wrote honest feedback to Trekkingtour Sa Pa (before writing this review) and tried to find a solution. We were told that they didn't have any good tour guides because of the festival and had found an external tour guide. We are extremely disappointed that our booking (and our money) was accepted knowing that there was no good tour guide. We also think it's a shame that we weren't told whether we wanted to do the tour a day later. Trekkingtours Sa Pa only responded to our solution when we opened a dispute via Paypal because the service we received did not match the one advertised. In retrospect, we would never have booked this expensive tour (€35 per person) under these circumstances and would not recommend it to anyone! It's better to book at another local office. We were probably unlucky with the booking day, but we still think that this is not acceptable and we are incredibly disappointed.
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      Written 12 March 2024
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      csgensler
      Wurzburg, Germany5 contributions
      5.0 of 5 bubbles
      Apr 2024 • Couples
      We booked a day tour and were completely satisfied with everything. Our tour guide (Chu, I hope that's the right name) was very communicative and spoke good English. Her open and friendly manner also made the day a real experience. She also asked if we wanted to take the "more interesting" route and since we were only a small group of 4 people, the topic was quickly over. So, we chose the difficult descent and we didn't regret it. Then we walked through the valley, got to know traditional crafts, the country and its people and the exhausting day ended after a 12 km walk in a taxi that took us back to the starting point, the ladies' office. All promises were kept, our expectations were fully met and we can happily recommend the Trekking Tour Guides.
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      Written 26 April 2024
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      Dear csgensl Many thanks for your amazing reviews. We are very appreciative. At Trekking Tour Sapa, we are a small group of local Hmong ethnic In Sapa. We would like to provide the best service to our customers and show you the real of Sapa. If you and your friends coming to Vietnam, we are glad to assist with a trek. Kind regards, Sinh
      Written 26 June 2024
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      Marco G
      4 contributions
      5.0 of 5 bubbles
      Mar 2023 • Couples
      Great experience! They were super nice and helpful since start, answering questions and offering assistance for everything. I highly recommend this experience as it is a real immersion in the local culture, visitng local villages and tryiing food. Our guide was Tung: she was super at explaining everything, giving us curiosities and making us very comfortable during the tour. Highly recommended!

      P.s: if it rains, I highly recommended to rent the boots at their office
      Written 13 March 2023
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      Dear B9972C Many thanks for your amazing reviews. We are very appreciated. At Trekking Tour Sapa, we are a small group of local Hmong ethnic In Sapa. We would like to provide the best service to our customers and show you the real of Sapa. If you and your friends coming to Vietnam, we are glad to assist with a trek. Kind regards, Sinh
      Written 30 June 2023
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      Skip_and_hop
      Melbourne, Australia26 contributions
      5.0 of 5 bubbles
      Oct 2022 • Couples
      Tzu our guide was kind, genuinely happy , informative and spoke good English (amazingly enough she just learnt it from tourist).
      The walk was easy to medium grade. The weather was a perfdct 17% and sunny(you can still burn so make sure you cover up, we took an umbrella)There wasn't one detail that wasn't interesting. The local indigenous people are lovely in nature as well. The walk was one of the highlights of Vietnam. We will highly recommend doing this to all who ask our opion in the future.
      Written 1 November 2022
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      Dear Skip_and_hop, Many thanks for your amazing reviews. We are very appreciated. At Trekking Tour Sapa, we are a small group of local Hmong ethnic In Sapa. We would like to provide the best service to our customers and show you the real of Sapa. If you and your friends coming to Vietnam, we are glad to assist with a trek. Kind regards, Sinh
      Written 6 November 2022
      This response is the subjective opinion of the management representative and not of Tripadvisor LLC.

      Harry
      10 contributions
      5.0 of 5 bubbles
      WOW. What an amazing experience! Tzu our guide was brilliant, answered every question, was so lovely and fantastic English. (which she had learnt from tourists) The trek itself was midrange challenging, but all the effort was completely worth it for the views of the rice fields. Furthermore, learning about the three villages we went through, the way of living for the Hmong people and getting help along the way was eye-opening and so nice. If you are wondering whether to do this trek, trust me and do it. Be aware that you will be asked to buy things (only when you get to second village, and not on the walk itself) by the Hmong people and their children, however, you do not have to of course AND if you choose to like we did, you are contributing massively to a population suffering from the effects of covid. These ladies have to pay for their kids to attend school so if you choose to help you, you can feel good knowing you’re helping those that need it. (Items are so cheap ($2-3) Thank you for the trek and if I ever return to the beautiful Sapa I will be sure to do this again.
      Written 23 March 2023
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      Dear Vacatio, Many thanks for your amazing reviews. We are very appreciated. At Trekking Tour Sapa, we are a small group of local Hmong ethnic In Sapa. We would like to provide the best service to our customers and show you the real of Sapa. If you and your friends coming to Vietnam, we are glad to assist with a trek. Kind regards, Sinh
      Written 30 June 2023
      This response is the subjective opinion of the management representative and not of Tripadvisor LLC.

      roelvillamor
      Binan City, Philippines1 contribution
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      June 2024 • Solo
      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.
      Written 19 June 2024
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      Dear roelvilla Many thanks for your amazing reviews. We are very appreciative. At Trekking Tour Sapa, we are a small group of local Hmong ethnic In Sapa. We would like to provide the best service to our customers and show you the real of Sapa. If you and your friends coming to Vietnam, we are glad to assist with a trek. Kind regards, Sinh
      Written 6 August 2024
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      Sophia K
      2 contributions
      5.0 of 5 bubbles
      June 2023 • Friends
      This trek was difficult, especially in the muddy parts. (Be prepared to get your shoes dirty, especially if it had just rained)
      Thankfully our guides were so patient and helpful.
      The views were incredible.

      A couple of things we didn’t know would happen- 2 local ladies followed our tour group all the way to lunch. They helped us get through the slippery parts. They were a huge help. At lunch they pulled out their handmade goods and it was expected we buy something from them before they left. I got a cute pouch.
      There were a couple of groups of local children who sell handmade bracelets. They will follow you for a while trying to sell them. Just FYI.
      Written 30 June 2023
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      Dear V6233XV Many thanks for your amazing reviews. We are very appreciated. At Trekking Tour Sapa, we are a small group of local Hmong ethnic In Sapa. We would like to provide the best service to our customers and show you the real of Sapa. If you and your friends coming to Vietnam, we are glad to assist with a trek. Kind regards, Sinh
      Written 22 July 2023
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      HARTONO T
      Medan, Indonesia961 contributions
      5.0 of 5 bubbles
      Apr 2023
      This is a six hour trekking in the middle of rice field. Moderate walk and it is not pushing. The guide was very knowledgable and patient. She gives a lot of photo time and relax,not pushy. In certain part we have to walk through the field and if you have some knee or mobiity problems then it is a challange. Moderate fitness is needed especially some up hill walk and a lot of down hill as well. The view was superb and I was joining this trekking in April which fabulous as the weather is nice and no rain, if it rained then the terrain will be very slippery. The food offered is order to cook, so all are fresh and hot,it is not buffet style which was very common in Vietnam. After the long trip and finished at Ta Van Village, a taxi is waiting for us to bring back to Sapa City,it was nice as all of us are really tired. Highly recommended this company as it wa run by local people,so we can help local guide for better living.
      Written 22 April 2023
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      Dear HARTO, Many thanks for your amazing reviews. We are very appreciated. At Trekking Tour Sapa, we are a small group of local Hmong ethnic In Sapa. We would like to provide the best service to our customers and show you the real of Sapa. If you and your friends coming to Vietnam, we are glad to assist with a trek. Kind regards, Sinh,
      Written 30 June 2023
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      Rebecca
      4 contributions
      5.0 of 5 bubbles
      Mar 2023 • Couples
      We were collected from our hotel by foot on time, there were us 2 and one other couple on our tour. Hiked approx 12km through rice fields and the guide showed us interesting things like uses for plants. Lunch was delicious and a good size, and we were shown how the people make and dye clothes in the village. At the end we were taken by car back to our hotel.

      The only negative was at lunch we were initially sat at a table where we were hassled by sellers (including local women that had walked with us) that wouldn't leave until we bought something from them. We then were moved to a table out of the way once everyone had been pressured to buy something.

      Overall a lovely walk and would definitely recommend
      Written 25 March 2023
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      Dear journey, Many thanks for your amazing reviews. We are very appreciated. At Trekking Tour Sapa, we are a small group of local Hmong ethnic In Sapa. We would like to provide the best service to our customers and show you the real of Sapa. If you and your friends coming to Vietnam, we are glad to assist with a trek. Kind regards, Sinh
      Written 30 June 2023
      This response is the subjective opinion of the management representative and not of Tripadvisor LLC.

      Canmpls
      Kingston, Canada127 contributions
      5.0 of 5 bubbles
      We booked the one day trek and, though February is not an ideal time, we lucked into pretty good weather until lunch. Our Hmong guide Tzu was lovely, knowledgeable and fun. She took very good care of us as we navigated some slippery paths. She was generous enough to take us to her home where we met two of her children. The walk is stunning and the culture of the hills tribes very interesting. Be prepared for them hawking their wares. As another reviewer said, the lunch was tastier than we expected. If you don’t have the time or inclination for a multi day trek, this is ideal. We really feel like we were immersed in the area. There is no other way to see it.
      Written 21 February 2023
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      Dear Canmpls, Many thanks for your amazing reviews. We are very appreciated. At Trekking Tour Sapa, we are a small group of local Hmong ethnic In Sapa. We would like to provide the best service to our customers and show you the real of Sapa. If you and your friends coming to Vietnam, we are glad to assist with a trek. Kind regards, Sinh
      Written 30 June 2023
      This response is the subjective opinion of the management representative and not of Tripadvisor LLC.

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