Day 1: Hanoi arrival
Arrive at Noi Bai Airport. Our tour guide waits for you at the airport and transfers to the hotel in downtown Hanoi. Welcome drink and tour briefing in the afternoon before check in your hotel
Overnight in Hanoi.
Summary
Transportation: AC vehicle
Meal: None
Accommodation: Hotel in Hanoi
Hanoi - Vietnam
Day 2: Hanoi – Halong – Overnight on cruise
Breakfast at hotel then departure to Halong, drive across the Red River Delta and reach the cruise lounge before noon. Have a short time to relax before embark at the cruise. Each cruise will have different schedule for your trip to discover Halong Bay – the UNESCO World Heritage Site and you may visit a beautiful cave, have some swimming or other activities like sunset party, cooking demonstration etc before dinner.
Kayaking in Halong - Vietnam
Evening time is your free time and you may choose to enjoy fresh air on the sundeck or playing board games or try your luck with squid fishing.
Note: The cruise program may be changed depend on the cruise’s schedule
Summary
Transportation: AC Vehicle
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Private cabin on shared overnight cruise
Day 3: Halong – Hanoi – Water Puppet Show – Night train to Lao Cai
If you don’t mind, please try to wake up early and join the Taichi class with the crew and enjoy watching sunrise on the bay. Take part in other activities of the 2nd day while the boat cruise back to the Habour.
Farewell with the crew and Halong. Meet your driver again for joint transfer back to Hanoi. Enjoy an Water Puppet Show at Water Puppet theatre.
Free on your own until pick up time for transfer to Hanoi Railway Station for overnight train to Lao Cai.
Summary
Transportation: AC Vehicle
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch/ Brunch
Accommodation: Shared 4-berth cabin on overnight train
Day 4: Lao Cai – Sapa – Trekking to Ethnic minorities – Overnight at homestay
Arrive in Lao Cai in an early mist morning at around 5.30am. Take a drive about one hour to the fame, beautiful town - Sapa. The ride gives you a glimpse of the stunning vistas and impressive rice terraces. Take a hot, delicious breakfast in order to warm your body up then prepare for a great trek day.
Sapa - Vietnam
Transferred 18 km to Ban Lech village of the Red Zao. We will trek along a narrow valley downhill for 2 hour to the Ngoi Bo River, then uphill for 1 hour to Muong Bo Village at the center of Thanh Phu Commune where your lunch will be provided in a local house.
After lunch, you will trek gradually uphill to Nam Cum Village and then head to Sin Chai B village of Red Dao where the night will be spent in a local house in the village.
Summary:
Transfer Lao Cai – Sapa: 1 hours driving
Transfer Sapa – Trekking point: 1 hours driving
Hiking: 6 hours hiking on dirt paths/downhill
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Homestay
Day 5: Trekking day to Lao Cai – Night train to Hanoi
Hanoi Railway
After breakfast, we will start our day with a long trek towards Lao Cai. The route from Sin Chai, one of the most remote area in Sapa offers beautiful scenery and landscape. The trek will take us through rice paddy fields, bamboo forest, old trees jungle. Your lunch will be provided at Nam Ket. After lunch, we will trek downhill. Upon arriving in Ta Thang village, a Tay village we will be greeted again by our driver who transfer us then to Laocai station for our journey back to Hanoi.
Summary:
Transfer: 1 hours driving
Hiking: 5 hours hiking on dirt paths/downhill
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Accommodation: Shared 4 berth cabin on overnight train
Day 6: Hanoi arrival – Hanoi city tour
Meet your guide at train station then transfer to hotel for early check in.
After breakfast, meet your guide again for the full day city tour with 1st stop at Temple of Literature – the first university of Vietnam and also the place where worship Confucius. Get on your car and enjoy a drive on the green street Hoang Dieu and Phan Dinh Phung to visit the Long Bien Bridge. Lunch will be served as your wish at your own account.
Afternoon, putting your skills to work carving your own personal stamp, for personal use or for a friend back home. You can recreate any of a wide array of designs available, or bring one yourself to make something totally unique.
With instruction to help the seemingly sophisticated process feel simple, your skilled host takes you through the steps of forming your own creation. Leave with a wooden stamp made by your own hands and a new attachment to the kings and aristocrats who left their mark on the craft.
End the day with one hour for cyclo tour around the Old Quarter - the bustling heart of Hanoi to see the daily life of local people and French architecture along ancient streets.
Overnight in Hanoi
Summary
Transportation: AC vehicle
Meal: Breakfast
Accommodation: Hotel in Hanoi
Day 7: Hanoi departure
Enjoy the last day in Hanoi on your own before transfer to airport for flight back home.
Check out time: 12.00. Late check out at surcharge
Summary
Transportation: AC Vehicle
Meal: Breakfast
Accommodation: None
Note on client safety
- We reserve the right to deviate from this itinerary for any reasons, including road and weather conditions, frequency of visits to a village, or for any other factor which may influence client safety.