Fansipan hike to the top
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 10.73 mi
- Elevation gain
- 4,173 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Difficult
- Elevation loss
- 413 ft
- Max elevation
- 10,285 ft
- TrailRank
- 29
- Min elevation
- 5,236 ft
- Trail type
- One Way
- Time
- 7 hours 16 minutes
- Coordinates
- 893
- Uploaded
- August 25, 2017
- Recorded
- August 2017
near Ô Quí Hồ, Lào Cai (Vietnam)
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Itinerary description
Hiking the way up to the top of Fansipan mountain then went down with the funicular.
# Hiking part
Started at 1900m at Tram Town
Time : 5h30
General comment :
- very cloudy day : impossible to see any landscape
- you have some part that are a bit tricky but not particularly difficult for people who are used to (big wood over a river to cross, ladders, tricky way along a river where used to have a passerelle...)
Advices :
- hiking shoes required
- heavy raincoat required (or rain poncho)
- bring food and water because no place to buy
poncho)
- doing the hike both way is tiring (22km - around 10 hours) but possible if you have good condition and leave very early on the morning (sun goes down at 6:30pm)
# Funicular part
Way down
20min
600,000 dôngs
# Hiking part
Started at 1900m at Tram Town
Time : 5h30
General comment :
- very cloudy day : impossible to see any landscape
- you have some part that are a bit tricky but not particularly difficult for people who are used to (big wood over a river to cross, ladders, tricky way along a river where used to have a passerelle...)
Advices :
- hiking shoes required
- heavy raincoat required (or rain poncho)
- bring food and water because no place to buy
poncho)
- doing the hike both way is tiring (22km - around 10 hours) but possible if you have good condition and leave very early on the morning (sun goes down at 6:30pm)
# Funicular part
Way down
20min
600,000 dôngs
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