Vietnam tour: North package tour 8 days 7 nights

Itinerary: North Vietnam pakage tour (8 Days/7 Nights group tour)

Day 1: HANOI ARRIVAL 

 Our tour guide will wait for you to pick up at Noi Bai airport with your name on board and take you go to Hanoi old quarter, check in your hotel then you will be free in Hotel, discover Hanoi 36 streets for yourself. 

Day 2: Hanoi City Tour full day ( L )

08:00 - 08:30: Driver and tour guide Pick up at your hotel in Hanoi old quarter and starting for Hanoi City tour.Visit the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum and Presidential palace to explore the architectural and historical site of Ho Chi Minh’s final resting-place. Continous walking to Mot Cot pagoda ( Hanoian call One Pilar pagoda, the most unique pagoda in ASIA.

10.30 AM Tour guide will take you come to see the Temple of Literature ( the firts university in Viet Nam ),where will help you to understand  deeper about Vietnamese education and culture under feudal period, also the place nowaday many students come to take memory picture  before graduating university.

12.00 PM Having lunch at local restaunt in Old quarter

1.15 PM  After lunch we’ll proceed to visit Hanoi Hiton Prison  ( Hoa Lo Prison ) which was built in 1898 by french, where french confined thousand Vietnamese political prisoners from 1989 – 1954, this is one of the most strongly prison and cuel in Indochina at that time, also where Amercan pilots who had been shot down from diffrent direction in the north Viet Nam and was captured in this prison until 1973, the American pilots called it sarcasticall Hilton Hotel.

2.30 PM  Visiting Vietnam museum of ethnology, the biggest museum in Vietnam, clients have a chance to see the whole images of 54 ethnics groups, this is the most special museum with a functions of research, preservation and display of tangble and intangible historical and culture, custom and habit, clothing, traditional house and daily life of 54 ethnics group.

3.30 PM  For the last part of the tour we’ll journey through Hanoi’s Old Quarter, where you’ll then have a chance for some shopping and exploration.

NOTE: After trip clients can chose 2 Options:

OPT1: Joining cooking class

OPT2: watch water puppet show

Dinner at your account.

Overnight in Hanoi city.

Day 3: Hanoi - Ha Long Bay (L,D ) 4 stars cruise Halong silver sea or similar

07:45 - 08:15 Pick up at your hotel and depart to Ha Long City.

12:30  Arrival Halong, get on Silver Sea cruise, welcome drink by friendly and profession crews, check in your private cabin.

13:00  Have lunch  while you are cruising through  the most beautiful spots  of  Halong Bay with 1969 amazing limestone islands emerging from  Sea blue water. Cruising with Halong Silver Sea cruise make sure all clients will have a  feeling  like as touching  heaven ,  the cruise was made in  2015 which one of the unique and newest iron cruise in Halong bay, with dulux cabins, private bathroom  and very  spacing we commit to making you unforgetable time while you are in Vietnam .

15:30 - Discover the magical beauty of nature by kayaking along side limestone cliffs stretching vertically over  pure blue water in tranquil bay.

16:30 - Swimming time, this is great chance to relax in water.

18:00 - Join the sunset party on the sundeck in warm and romantic atmosphere, making friends with other members in the group, enjoy fresh local fruit, listening soft, light music.

19:00 - Enjoy the special dinner cooked by our professional chef.

20:30 - The moment you choose your own way to relax after dinner, listening to music, singing karaoke, relaxing on the sundeck, squid fishing available for entertainment during the night time.

Day 4: HA LONG BAY (B, L, D)

06:00 – Morning  exercise with our Tai Chi master, a perfect healthy way to start a new day.

07:00 – Enjoy your breakfast, coffee, tea, fruits.

Opt1: Second night on the boat

8:15 - transfer to our daily boat

08:30 - Hiking up to the peak of Titop island, this is great chance to have a panoramic view of Halong Bay.

09:30 - Scenic cruising for hours to the most beauty areas of Halong Bay

11:30 - Relaxing time on one of the most secluded beach in the tranquil area, swimming, sunbathing and exposing yourself to the nature.

12:30 - Enjoy barbecued lunch on the daily boat

14:00 kayaking to discover the exceptional beauty of nature in the tranquil bay.

15:30 - Keep cruising to other parts of the bay

17:00 Back to your Silversea Cruise to refresh and relax, making friends with new group.

19:00 Enjoy the second dinner on boat

20:30 - Relax at leisure on your own or joint some activities on the cruise

Opt2: Second night in the bungalow sea-view  air - conditioning

08:00 – Visit the Surprising Cave – the most beautiful one in Ha Long Bay  

09:30 - Transfer to our daily boat, sailing through Lan Ha bay for 2 hours.

11:30 - Arrive at bungalow for check in.  

 OPT 1:

12:00 - Lunch in the restaurant at the Nam Cat bungalow. Enjoy your time and  relaxing, sunbathing on the beach or attending some activities available at the bungalow like as playing football, voley ball,  table tennis, kayaking to explore untouched area near by bungalow.

OPT 2:  ( biking trip to Viet Hai village ) must be booked in advance, extra U.S. $5/ person.

Day 5: HA LONG BAY - HA NOI (B, L)

Opt1: Second night on the boat

06:00  welcome sun rise on Halong bay,  morning exercise with our Tai Chi master, a perfect healthy way to start a new day.

07:00 - Enjoy your breakfast, coffee, tea, fruits.

08:00 - Visit Surprising Cave - the most beautiful one in Halong Bay

09:00 - Back to Silversea Cruise for check-out, keep cruising towards Ha Long Bay to explore another parts of the huge Bay, passing by hundreds of islands and islets with different shapes depending on your imagination.

Opt2: Second night in the bungalow sea-view

07:00 - Breakfast

08:00 - Check-out, transfer to the daily boat to get on your Silver sea  Cruise. Keep cruising towards Ha Long Bay to explore another parts of the huge bay  

10:00 - Cooking class opened right on the cruise.

11:00 - Farewell brunch served on the cruise before you arrive at harbor.

12:30 - Get on the bus to Hanoi.  

16:30 - Transfer you back to Hanoi

Day 6: HANOI - SAPA

Itinarary 3 days 2 nights

20:30 - 20:45  Tour guide come to pick you up  to Hanoi  Train Station. Deparure to Lao Cai station, You will be overnight on train.

Day 7: Lao Cai – Sapa - Cat cat – Sinchai village  ( B,L,D)

AM : 6.30  arrive Lao Cai, tour guide will wait to pick up at Lao Cai train Station then transfer to Sapa town. 8.00 You will have breakfas leave your luggage at hotel. 
09.00 - 09.30 Start Trekking  to Cat Cat and Sin Chai villages of Black H'Mong minority people . See the Tien Sa waterfall in Cat Cat and beautiful scenery along the way.

12.00 Back hotel and check-in  (time for check in after 12:00PM). Enjoy lunch at local restaurant. 
Afternoon: Free time to explore & discovery Sa Pa town & Stone church. Back to hotel for dinner.
Overnight in Sapa town.

Day 8: SAPA - LAO CHAI- TAVAN VILLAGE - HA NOI ( B,L)

7.45. After breakfast at hotel, check out and leave your luggage in the hotel, get ready for the trip. Trekking down to Lao Chai and Tavan  village to visit the Tay and Day tribes have chance to see daily life of local people and special tarrace rice fields, you can get in some house to see how come they live and discover custom, habit of these minorities people, which is supposed to get great experience in the area .Have a picnic lunch on the way and go along the rice fields and get back Sapa in the afternoon.

4.30. Back Sapa free and easy in Hotel or going out to see Sapa then Driver take you go back to Lao Cai train station. Dinner at your account. You will overnight on train to Hanoi city. (21:15 - 05:30)