Sapa-CatCat-Lao chai-Ta van-waterfall-Sapa
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 15.76 mi
- Elevation gain
- 3,383 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 3,376 ft
- Max elevation
- 4,928 ft
- TrailRank
-
39
3
- Min elevation
- 3,028 ft
- Trail type
- One Way
- Moving time
- 5 hours 27 minutes
- Time
- 8 hours 54 minutes
- Coordinates
- 4426
- Uploaded
- April 26, 2018
- Recorded
- November 2017
near Xóm Ba A, Lào Cai (Vietnam)
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Itinerary description
Hiking from Sapa to ta van. Beautiful landscape crossing rice fields.
1: in our opinion cat cat is totally unnecessary. Is more like a folk market than a village; tourist trap.
2: is easy to follow the track. There are a lot of groups guided by Hmong women... in case of doubt; follow them. Everybody is going to Ta van...
3: after the waterfall follow the itinerary. You will find a road after a slope (looks like a track, but is a road.) From there to Sapa are 10km following the road. Is expendable. All the way is up and you won’t nothing special. Only worth if you want to walk more. You can arrange a motorcycle or van to Sapa
1: in our opinion cat cat is totally unnecessary. Is more like a folk market than a village; tourist trap.
2: is easy to follow the track. There are a lot of groups guided by Hmong women... in case of doubt; follow them. Everybody is going to Ta van...
3: after the waterfall follow the itinerary. You will find a road after a slope (looks like a track, but is a road.) From there to Sapa are 10km following the road. Is expendable. All the way is up and you won’t nothing special. Only worth if you want to walk more. You can arrange a motorcycle or van to Sapa
Waypoints
Waypoint
4,035 ft
Cat cat village
Photo
River
3,862 ft
Río
Waypoint
3,353 ft
Lao Chai
Waypoint
3,406 ft
Tan van
Waypoint
3,271 ft
Bamboo
Waterfall
Bridge
3,041 ft
Waypoint
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Easy to follow
Scenery
Moderate
Hay algunos caminos que te llevan a casas sin acceso, nos ha tocado improvisar y coger alternativas. Quizá pudieran atravesarse pero a la ruta le fata más indicaciones. Por otro lado, a partir de la cascada la ruta es por una carretera y no aporta mucho. Desde ahí aconsejo coger un taxi, no hay grandes vistas.
En la descripción de la ruta pone que desde la cascada ya no merece la pena