Who runs Trekking Tour Sapa?

Trekking Tour Sapa is founded and run by members of the Black H'mong ethnic minority community in Sapa. All 12 team members are local H'mong people — they live in the villages guests trek through. 11 of 12 team members are women.

Is Trekking Tour Sapa a licensed operator?

Yes. Trekking Tour Sapa is a fully licensed international tour operator — License No. 10-078/2023/CDLQGVN-GP LHQT, issued by the Vietnam National Tourism Authority. Business registration number: 5300817754, Lao Cai Province.

Where is the Trekking Tour Sapa office?

The office is at 105 Thach Son Street, Sapa, Lao Cai, Vietnam. Open 6:30am–10:30pm, 7 days a week. You can walk in anytime to ask questions, book a tour, or pick up rental gear.

How do I contact Trekking Tour Sapa?

The fastest way is WhatsApp: +84 886 766 031 — replies within 5–10 minutes, every day. You can also call +84 838 040 010 or email Info@trekkingtoursapa.com.

What makes Trekking Tour Sapa different from other Sapa tour companies?

Trekking Tour Sapa guides are from the Black H'mong villages guests walk through — not hotel-employed staff from outside the community. This gives access to working family farms, real homestay kitchens, and trails not found in guidebooks. All groups are capped at 12 people, and all profits stay within the local H'mong community.

Born in Sapa

Born in Sapa. Built for Travelers Who Want the Real Thing.

We are not a hotel-backed tour operator. We are twelve people from the Black H'mong community who grew up on these trails — and turned that into a career.

Our Story

We Didn't Start as a Tour Company. We Started as Kids Selling Handicrafts.

Chu, Sang, Tung — our guides grew up in the villages you will visit. Black H'mong children who spent their childhoods helping parents farm rice terraces and selling handmade textiles at the Sapa market. That is how they learned English: one sentence at a time, one curious traveler after another, on cold street corners and muddy trail junctions.

That community access is what makes every Trekking Tour Sapa route different. We do not take guests to the viewpoints that appear in every travel blog. We walk through working farms, stop in on families our guides have known for years, and eat lunch at tables where the cooking pot came off a wood fire twenty minutes ago. These are places that take a lifetime of roots to reach — not a guidebook.

Today, Trekking Tour Sapa is a fully licensed operator based at 105 Thach Son Street in the heart of Sapa — License No. 10-078/2023. Our twelve team members all come from the Black H'mong community. None of them commute. They live in the villages you will walk through, on trails they have known since childhood.

The Trekking Tour Sapa team at their office in Sapa

10,000+
Travelers guided since day one

10,000+ Travelers Guided

★ 4.9 Average Rating

Max 12 Group Size — Always

12 Members All H'mong Locals

The People

Meet the Team

Our founder, ten guides, and two customer care specialists. All Black H'mong. All in Sapa every day.

Our People

Built by H'mong Women. Led by H'mong Women.

Before joining Trekking Tour Sapa, most of our guides had one realistic income option: selling handmade textiles at the market — seasonal earnings, uncertain, dependent on how many tourists happened to pass by. Tourism changed that path completely.

Today, 11 of our 12 guides and customer care staff are H'mong women. They run every part of this company — guiding on the trails, handling bookings, managing customer care, planning routes, coordinating transport. A stable monthly salary means they can invest in their children's schooling, take care of their parents, and build a career that belongs entirely to them.

When you book with us, your money stays here. It goes directly to these women and their families — not to a city-based agency or a foreign investor. That is what it actually means to travel with a locally-run company.

92% Women-led — guides, bookings & customer care

11 H'mong women employed full-time, year-round

100% Revenue stays within the local H'mong community

Founder

Sinh Giang

Ta Van village, Sapa

Sinh Giang founded Trekking Tour Sapa. Born and raised Black H'mong in Ta Van village, deep inside the Muong Hoa Valley, Sinh grew up in a farming family and learned English as a teenager by walking into Sapa town to practise with travelers. What started as guiding for free — just to get better at the language — grew into a licensed, locally-run company, built so that the guiding, the bookings and the customer care all stay in the hands of H'mong people from these valleys. Today Sinh still answers travelers directly on WhatsApp and writes the trip-planning guides on this site. Read Sinh's full story →