TRAVEL SERVICE & RESERVATION

Day 1 (Extra day) – 21 Jun: Hanoi (arrival)

Arrival airport in Hanoi, our driver welcomes and transfers you to hotel for your stay.

• Overnight at Le Foyer Hotel in Hanoi
• N/A

Day 2- 22 Jun: Hanoi (city tour)

Breakfast at hotel.

Around 08:15 – 08:30AM , Get picked up by our friendly guide and start to explore Hanoi City.

08.45 – Arrive at Tran Quoc Pagoda located on Golden Fish IsLand in West Lake. It is the oldest pagoda in Ha Noi built in the 6th century.

09.30 – Visit Ho Chi Minh complex, you have a chance to see the embalmed body of Ho Chi Minh then walk around the garden to see 2 houses where he lived & worked from 1954 to 1969. Then visit One Pillar Pagoda where worships the Godess of Mercy – It is the most unique padoga in the world

• Should dress modestly by covering from shoulders to knees when visiting Ho Chi Minh mausoleum, temples, pagodas…

• Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum is closed on Mondays and Fridays.

• Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum is closed at least 2 months (15thJune -15thAugust) for the annual maintaining but still can take picture Mausoleum and visit around that area

11.15 – Visit Vietnam Ethnology Museum to learn about the culture of 54 ethnic groups living in the whole country of Vietnam.

Special Note: we will visit Women Museum instead of Ethnology Museum closed on Mondays

12.45 – Have lunch at our restaurant. You have an opportunity to enjoy Vietnamese cuisine.

14.00 – 14.15 : Continue to visit Temple of Literature – the first university of Vietnam, established in the 11 century.

15.15: Leave for Hoa Lo Prison Museum which originally used by the French colonists in Indochina for political prisoners, and later by North Vietnam for U.S. prisoners of war during the Vietnam War. During this later period, it was known to American POWs as the “Hanoi Hilton”

Get back to the hotel.

At 16:30, Go walking around 30 minutes to Lotus water puppet theater (16 Le Thai To street) to enjoy the show at 17:15PM. 

• Overnight at Le Foyer Hotel in Hanoi
• B,L

Day 3 – 23 Jun. Ha Noi → Sapa

Breakfast at hotel. Please check out after breakfast, you can leave your big luggage at your hotel (please ask staff there to keep in store for you), bring small bag for two nights in Sapa as you will be back and stay more. 

06:30 – 06:45: our driver picks you up from the hotel, depart for Sapa

13.00: Arrive Sapa Town with colorful traditional costumes of H’mong, Dzao, Tay ethnic People. The tour guide will be waiting for you at No.3 Fansipan Str (or at where the bus stop), holding the sign “Sapa Pathfinder Travel” to welcome you. Then, please follow him to come to the hotel.

· Welcome drink and itinerary briefing

· Enjoy the lunch with local Vietnamese dishes, check-in procedures

14.30: A short trek to the gate of Cat Cat village which is home of Black H’mong ethnic people and is located near the bottom of a deep valley at the foot of Fansipan Peak. Our local guide will show you the daily life activities of the locals, trek down to the valley bottom to the waterfall where the French built a Hydraulic Power Station; stop for photo with bridge and waterfall then you will walk uphill for bus to pick up to get back to Sapa in the afternoon.

Trekking distance is about 3.5 kms and it lasts for 2 hours

Come back to Sapa Town.

• Overnight at Panorama Hotel in Sapa
• B,L

Day 4 (Extra day) – 24 Jun: Sapa (FANSIPAN CABLE CAR)

Have breakfast at hotel

– Go to Fansipan Cable Car Station and take the cable car for 20 minutes to appreciate the stunning view beneath your feet when sitting in the cabin

– Behold the scenery, take photos, and visit pagodas once you have ascended to an altitude of 2,800 meters

– Walk up 600 stairs to Fansipan peak, also referred to as the Roof of Indochina (You may spend around 1.5 hours hiking and shooting pictures) Afternoon

– Return to Fansipan Cable Car Station and continue to go back to Sapa town

• Overnight at Panorama Hotel in Sapa
• B,L

Day 5 – 25 Jun: Sapa → Hanoi

7.00 – 7.45: Have breakfast at hotel and prepare light pack for trekking

Trek from Sapa to Y Linh Ho then trek through the rice terraces and along Muong Hoa Stream to the Black Hmong village of Lao Chai to see the spectacular landscape of Hoang Lien Son Mountain.

Lunch at a local restaurant

Heading to Ta Van village – home of Dzay ethnic people.

Bus picks you up at Ta Van Bridge to Sapa.
Trekking distance is about 12 kms and it lasts for 4.5 hours

14:00 – 14:30: Take a bus back to Hanoi

• Overnight at Le Foyer Hotel in Hanoi
• B,L

Day 6 – 26 Jun: Hanoi → Halong bay

Breakfast at your hotel.

8:00 – 8:05 AM , Our guide Pick you up at your hotel and go to Halong bay on a shuttle bus. Take a rest at Humanity center and enjoy local specialties after 2h. Arrival in Halong at 11.45.

11:45-12.00 – Meeting at TuanChau harbour. Check in Royal Palace Cruise and you are warmly welcomed by a professional and friendly crew.

12:30 – You will board your Royal Palace Cruise and you are warmly welcomed by a professional and friendly crew. 

13:00 – Check – in cabin and enjoy speacially prepared lunch while cruising through most beautiful parts of the magical bay with thousands of amazing limestone islands emerging from emerging from emrald water. Sailing with Roylal Palace Cruise in very tranquil route, expolling the exotic beauty of the legendary Bay, a feeling in paradise will come to you

14.30 – Discovering outstanding and magical beauty of Luon Cave by bamboo boat or kayaking.

15:45  – Small tender brings you to visit Titop island, hiking to the top of the island from where tourists can capture a panoramic view of Halong Bay.

17:00-17:15– Back to the boat from the titop island to have shower and refreshing up 

17:30 – Join the sunset moment on the sundesk in a warm and romantic armosphere, making friends with other members in the group, enjoy fresh local fruit, listening soft, light music

19:00 – Enjoy 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.

• Stay overnight on Royal Palace Cruise in Halong Bay
• B,L,D

Day 7 – 27 Jun: Halong bay → Hanoi

05:45-06:00 – Take photos of sunrise, morning exercise with our Tai Chi master, a perfectly healthy way to start a new day.

06:30 – Enjoy your breakfast, coffee, tea, fruits.

07:15 – Visit Surprising Cave – the most beautiful one in Halong Bay.

09:00 – Back to Royal Palace Cruise for check-out. Keep cruising towards Ha Long Bay, passing by hundreds of islands and islets with different shapes depending on your imagination.

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

10:30 – Farewell lunch served on the cruise before you arrive at harbor.

11:40 – Tour ends at Tuan Chau habour

Say goodbye to the crew and disembark.

Get on bus to go back to Hanoi.

Your leisure time in the city on your own.

• Overnight at Le Foyer Hotel in Hanoi
• B,L

Day 8 – 28 Jun. Ha Noi – Departure

Breakfast at your hotel.

We transfer you to the airport for your departure flight home

• N/A
• B

End of service!