Routes: Hanoi - Ha Long Bay Excursion (SEAT IN COACH)
Duration: 07 days / 06 nites
Day 1: Arrival Hanoi
Day 2: Hanoi City Discover (Breakfast / Lunch included)
Day 3: Lao Cai - Sapa - Cat Cat Village (Breakfast / Lunch / Dinner included)
Day 4: Sapa - Taphin Village - Lao Cai (Breakfast / Lunch / Dinner included)
Day 5: Hanoi - Ha Long Bay (Breakfast / Lunch / Dinner included)
Day 6: Ha Long Bay - Ha Noi (Breakfast / Lunch included)
Day 7: Ha Noi - Departure (Breakfast included)
(We will change the hotel, junk in case alls above get FULL)
Tour Prices Include
Hotel in twin / triple sharing room basic with daily breakfast
Transfer by air-conditioned bus as itinerary
Meals as indicated: 5 breakfast / 5 lunch / 3 dinner
Entrance fees, boat trips and excursions
Excellent English speaking guide (and also the other: Polish, Russian, Chinese, Indonesia)
Tour Prices Exclude
Travel insurance
Visa fee, flight ticket, airport tax
Personal expenses
Drink
Tipping
Others not mentioned nor specified above
Day 1: Arrival Hanoi
On arrival at Hanoi's Noi Bai International airport, you will be greated by our guide and transfer to your hotel and free to leisure. Overnight in Hanoi.
Day 2: Hanoi City Discover (Breakfast / Lunch included)
Morning, meet your tour guide at the hotel, visit Ba Dinh Square, Ho Chi Minh's Mausoleum and traditional stilt house the Ho Chi Minh Meseum, the revered One Pillar Pagoda... Pay visit to typical Vietnamese places of worship, Vietnam's first university, the thousand year old Temple of Literature.
Lunch at local restaurant, visit: Army Museum or other Museum, West Lake, Tran Quoc Pagoda and Hoan Kiem Lake (Sword Restored Lake), also a visit the Hanoi city's traditional 36 ancient street and shopping... turning back your hotel in the evening.
Day 3: Lao Cai - Sapa - Cat Cat Village (Breakfast / Lunch / Dinner included)
Arrive at Lao Cai Train Station at about 6:30. Take a transfer to Sapa, having breakfast and relax before explore Sapa Town. In the afternoon, take a 2km short trekking to Cat Cat Village, the home of H'mong Ethic. Meeting & talking with locals to learn more about their daily life.
Overnight at your hotel in Sapa.
Day 4: Sapa - Taphin Village - Lao Cai (Breakfast / Lunch / Dinner included)
Breakfast at hotel and check out around 9:00-10:00 am. You can consider to take one of the two options below:
Option 1 Soft trek: Pleasant drive to Tafin village (12km from Sapa) of Red Dzao ethic. Touring to the village to visit Tafin handicraft shop and explore the daily life of Red Dzao. Here you have a good choices to buy woven and textile brocades, which is made by ethic people. Visit Tafin Cave and small hamlet of Black H'mong people. Return to Sapa and take a transfer to Lao Cai station for night train to Hanoi.
Option 2 Hard trek: Take a drive to Ta Fin and trek down to a small hamlet of Matra via foot path, where inhabited by Black H'mong ethic. Continue trekking up the village and getting through paddies fields will lead you to an ancient Catholic abbey, built by French colonists. Walk 2 km more to reach Tafin handicraft shops and explore the daily life of Red Dzao. Here you have a good choices to buy woven and textile brocades, which is made by ethic people. Get on your vehicle and transfer to Lao Cai. Have dinner at local restaurant and get on night train back to Hanoi. Overnight at an AC 4 berth soft sleeper train to Hanoi.
Day 5: Hanoi - Ha Long Bay (Breakfast / Lunch / Dinner included)
Arrival in Hanoi early morning (around 04:30 - 05:00). Check in at hotel for freshen up and breakfast (check-out time is 12:00 noon). Then departure Ha Noi for Ha Long Bay approximately three hours away. End route we have a short visit at Sao Do arts and crafts centre run by hadicapped children. Uppon arrival at Ha Long Bay (approx. mid-day), we will board our luxury junk boat, The Jewel of the Bay for a delicious seafood lunch. After lunch, we have a chance to explore some of the limestone caves dotted around the bay. Then our captain will find a secluded spot for swimming and sun bathing before dinner. Enjoy another seafood feast for dinner and for the night owls, there is option of night fishing.
Day 6: Ha Long Bay - Ha Noi (Breakfast / Lunch included)
Rising to the lapping waters of the bay, we have time for an early morning dip followed by breakfast. This morning we continue to cruise around the bay to find more secluded areas to either swim or kayak in. The kayaks are light-weight and easy to use. All guests will be issued with water buoyancy vests and the junk will be near us at all times serving as a back up vessel. At midday we will return to the main harbor before transferring to our awaiting vehicle for a 3-hour journey back to Hanoi. We should be back in the capital at around 3.30pm.
Day 7: Ha Noi - Departure (Breakfast included)
You are free for shopping in Hanoi. Then we take you to Noi Bai airport. Finish your trip!
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