EXPLORE NORTHERN VIETNAM (10 DAYS 9 NIGHTS)

Hanoi arrival, you are taken to the hotel for check-in.

Take a rest or walk around area of hotel to discovery Vietnamese’s life and culture.

Inclusion:  Airport transfer, tour guide, private car, hotel

After having breakfast at the hotel, we start to visit Hanoi.

The first destination will be Bat Trang Pottery village. Bat Trang Pottery Village is like a living museum, where you can visit cultural relics, antiquities, brick houses, as well as temples and communal houses dating back to the 19th century, to better understand the spiritual life. spirits, customs and festivals of the people of the pottery village. In particular, during your visit to the craft village, you can also experience the process of shaping your favorite ceramic products.

Then Hoa Lo Prison Museum. The prison’s displays focus on the sufferings of Vietnamese revolutionaries who were confined (and sometimes executed) here when the French were the masters of Vietnam in the early part of the 20th century.)

Then we will visit the Temple of Literature – is often cited as one of Hanoi’s most picturesque tourist attractions. Originally built as a university in 1070 dedicated to Confucius, scholars and sages, the building is extremely well preserved and is a superb example of traditional-style Vietnamese architecture.

Then, with the next 1-hour cyclo around Hanoi’s Old Quarter, you are promised to get a slow-speed view of a maze of labyrinthine streets as the daily life of the locals.

Trying a cup of egg coffee while looking down the streets, viewing the bustling life of the locals in the late afternoon before ending makes this day trip in Hanoi even more unforgettable.

Then we go back to the hotel.

Inclusion: Private car, breakfast, tour guide, entrance tickets, and hotel.

To experience the tranquil Hanoi, you are suggested to wake up early to enjoy the sounds of the Hanoi at morning, walking around Hoan Kiem Lake and doing Tai Chi exercise with locals. Your Halong trip will start after you come back to the hotel for freshening up and breakfast.

After breakfast, you’ll take a 3-hour drive to Halong Bay – one of the great natural wonders of the world and a UNESCO World Heritage site by shuttle bus. Upon arrival, the boat crew will welcome you and transfer you to the cruise ship for check-in and enjoy a cruise around Halong Bay with a delicious local seafood lunch served on board. At the same time, you can behold thousands of limestone islands and grottoes rising from the clear, emerald water.

After lunch you’ll join some activities on a bamboo boat to discover the beauty of the bay such as visiting a cave, kayaking or enjoying swimming in the sea.

Inclusion: Shuttle bus, English tour guide on boat, 3 meals (B-L-D), cabin, all entrance fees and activities.

After having half day tour on cruise, you will come back to Ha Noi and have time to relax and discovery Ha Noi by yourself

Inclusion: Hotel, English tour guide, 2 meals (B-L), shared shuttle bus

Take a rest or walk around area of hotel to discovery Vietnamese’s life and culture 

Inclusion: Breakfast and hotel

Arrival in Sapa, tour guide takes you to visit Cat Cat – a village of H’Mong ethnic minority, about 2 km from Sapa Town.

The village was formed in the mid 19th century by a group of ethnic people gathered here to settle. These people earn their living by growing rice and corns on terraced fields and developing animal husbandry using the traditional methods.

Besides, they have well preserved traditional handicrafts such as line and cotton cultivation and woven fabrics.

You will also see a number of mills in this village. These mills are powered by flowing water to pound rice. Throughout the trail, you will see how people have used the flowing water to their advantage.

Cat Cat waterfall is one of the main attractions. You can dip your feet in the cool water if you are able to jump over the boulders. Cat Cat is also known for its indigo dyeing technique that you can observe as you walk around.

Then if you have time we can go to Silver waterfall to enjoy.

Come back to the hotel for relax and free time.

Inclusion: Tour guide, entrance fees, hotel, breakfast, private car and shared limousine car

Fansipan was the best of the mountains in Vietnam you could climb. You could only reach the top on foot. Since February 2016 there is a cable car. Instead of walking one to three days to the top, you are there with the cable car in just 15-20 minutes. If you like it and you like a challenge, you can still choose to climb the mountain. You can do it within 1 day, 2 days or 3 days. During a multi-day trip you will stay in a cabin or tent on the mountain. Keep in mind that the top of the mountain is often in the clouds and that you therefore have little view, so do it mainly for the experience.

Then you will come back to Hanoi by shared limousine car

Inclusion: Tour guide, entrance fees, hotel, breakfast, private car and shared limousine car

You will have time to explore city by your own

Inclusion: Hotel, breakfast

Our car and tour guide will transfer you to Trang An

Then we visit Trang An Scenic Landscape complex nearby which is recognized as an UNESCO World natural heritage, get on a rowing boat (small sampan) traveling along the small river with scenic mountain and green fields landscape.

Boat takes you to visit the cave complex of Trang An: Sang Cave, Toi Cave, Ba Giot Cave, Nau Ruou in mystery and wilderness, the scenery of mountains and rivers – Halong on land of Ninh Binh.

Late afternoon, drive back to your hotel in Hanoi.

It will take 2.5 hours to explore caves by bamboo boat.

Inclusion: Private car, breakfast, tour guide, entrance tickets, hotel

Our car will transfer you to airport and from Hanoi back to your country!

Say goodbye to Vietnam and have a safe flight!

Inclusion: Airport transfer, breakfast