Ta Van Xanh - Native scent, mountain flavor

✅Services include:

• Scheduled private shuttle service
• Entrance tickets
• Organic herbal soap workshop
• Cooking class materials and lunch
• Professional tour guide
• Afternoon tea
• Travel insurance
• Ecological drinking water (glass bottle / refill bottle)

❌Not included:

• Train and bus tickets to/from Sapa
• Personal expenses outside the program
• Tips for tour guide and driver (if any)
• Other costs not mentioned in the service included.

Departure point: Meeting point at hotel in the center of Sa Pa, Lao Cai.
End point: Return to original pickup point.

🗓️ Schedule

🕚 08:00 – Pick up at Sapa center

🚌 Local tour guide picks up guests by tourist car (electric car preferred).
♻️ Brief introduction to the journey "Sustainable community tourism".
🥤 Encourage guests to bring personal water bottles to limit single-use plastic.

🕚 09:00 – Visit Ta Van village & organic vegetable garden

☘️ Stop at the community organic vegetable garden and listen to the garden owner share about the chemical-free growing model.
🍄 Join the locals in picking vegetables, tubers, and spices from the highlands - ingredients for cooking.

👉 Visitors are instructed on how to compost, use recycled water and practice sustainable intercropping.

🕚 10:30 – Highland cooking class

👨‍🍳 Join "Cooking Class Ta Van village" with Giay ethnic women.
🍲 Practice preparing 3 traditional dishes:
🍗 Grilled chicken with mac khen / stir-fried wild vegetables with garlic / grilled corn cake.
🧩 Reusable tools and fuel – environmentally friendly.
🍽️ Lunch with a local family, cultural exchange - learn greetings in Giay or H'Mong language.

👉 Principle: use only local ingredients, do not waste food.

🕚 13:30 – Workshop on making organic soap from local herbs

🎎 Join a community craft workshop, guided by local women.
🌴 Learn about the ingredients: coconut oil, beeswax, lemongrass leaves, turmeric, wild mint, bamboo charcoal...
🍫 Practice the process of cooking - stirring - shaping soap; customers can take the product home.
🔸 Introducing a sustainable livelihood soap model to help indigenous women increase their income.

👉 Kraft paper packaging, no plastic – customers can choose to contribute a portion of the fee to grow more replanted herbs.

🕚 15:30 – Afternoon tea & sharing about responsible tourism

☕ Drink Shan Tuyet tea, enjoy sticky rice cakes.
🌍 Chat with your tour guide about the principles of “Travel Responsible – Live Local”.
🏷️ Write down your feelings in your scrapbook: “I came and left something good.”

🕚 16:30 – End of program

🚌 The car takes guests back to Sa Pa town center.
🌱 End of a meaningful and responsible experience with nature.

✅ Please read the information carefully before booking the tour.
✅ Wear comfortable clothes, non-slip sneakers, wide-brimmed hat, light jacket, sunscreen, thin raincoat (Sa Pa weather changes quickly).
✅ Bring your own water bottle to refill, limit the use of plastic bottles.
✅ Respect local customs: ask permission before taking photos of people, especially women and children.
✅ Do not bring food or drinks in plastic packaging into the village (if you do, please take your trash out of the area).
✅ When participating in the workshop, follow safety instructions (avoid touching hot solution when making soap).

Any cancellation by the guest will incur additional fees as follows:

• More than 14 days before departure date: No charge.
• From 7 days to 14 days before departure date: 50% of tour price.
• From 3 days to 6 days before departure date: 70% of tour price.
• Within 3 days before departure date or no show: 100% tour price.