Ha Long – Ninh Binh – Sapa 8 Days 7 Nights Tour From Hanoi ( TBV07 )

Upon arrival at Hanoi Airport, your guide and driver are waiting to meet you, holding up a welcome signboard with your names on it and take you directly to your hotel in the center of Ha Noi city. (check in time is from 2 pm. If rooms are availabe check in time may be sooner).

13:30  the guide and driver pick up you to visit city tour.

• Firstly visit visit Tran Quoc Pagoda located on an east side isle of the West Lake (Tay Ho district). It is considered as the most ancient pagoda in Thang Long – Ha Noi with its historical progression in 1500 years. It has a harmonious combination between the majesty, hoariness architecture and peaceful landscape of the West From the period in the Ly and Tran dynasties, it had become the Buddhist center of Thang Long.

• Visit the Complex of President Ho Chi Minh (Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum and Stilt house) – Where the great leader lived and worked until the last years of his life. Here, you will have the opportunity to learn about Uncle Ho’s simple life. In addition, your visit presidental palace, One Pillar Pagoda to admire one of the 4 symbols of Hanoi.
• Continue to Hoan Kiem lake in the center of Hanoi with Turtle tower, Ngoc Son Temple ( view from outside for photo).furthermore, you could discover the Vietnamese traditional and French colonial architecture through buildings surrounding the lake. You can spend time to walk arround the ha noi old quarter to see busy daily activities of Ha Noi people.

Overnight in Ha Noi.

Morning

• After breakfast, tour guide pick you up and depart to Ha Long bay. you  go through the rich farmlands of the Red River Delta to the legendary Halong Bay where you will board a traditional-style Vietnamese Junk Boat that is your home for the evening. The limestone karsts and tropical islets rising up from the emerald waters of the bay provide an ethereal backdrop for your leisurely cruise.
• Upon arrival you’ll be welcomed aboard your Stylish Junk boat, each with its own individual route, to begin your cruise around the bay’s thousands of limestone islets and caves.

Afternoon

• After a delicious lunch on board, you will spend time to sunbathe on the sundeck and enjoy the peaceful tranquility of the bay.
• Later you will visit Sung Sot Cave “Grotte des Surprises” a hidden gem of mother nature. Float peacefully through magnificent limestone formations containing thousands of stalagmites and stalactites.
• Continue to cruise. As you weave your way through the islands, you’ll come across secluded bays, white sandy beaches, and floating villages.
• There is plenty of leisure time to enjoy activities both onboard and around the fantastical scenery of the Bay. Pamper yourself at the cruise spa or swim in the emerald waters.
• Toward the end of the day, you will sail to the overnight mooring area. During this time – the magical “blue hour” – Halong Bay reveals its true, magnificent beauty. You have a chance to attend the chef’s cooking demonstration or enjoy a mesmerising sunset on the top deck before a scrumptious dinner.
• The rest of the evening will be at leisure. You can watch a movie or join the crew for squid fishing before retiring to your room for a restful sleep.

Overnight on board in Halong Bay

Morning

• The graceful practice of Tai Chi eases you into your day as is the local custom. Join a ‘Local Specialist’ on the deck of the Junk boat for a morning class in exquisite natural surrounds. You’ll have time for an early morning swim at one of Halong Bay’s quiet beaches and, if you’re feeling energetic, hop on a kayak and paddle around lagoon, ilets  admiring the glittering stone walls.

• Back to the Junk boat. Check out of the cabin and then enjoy a full brunch buffet as you cruise back to port. Disembark around midday for your return to Hanoi.

Overnight in Ha Noi

Morning

•  departure to the dramatic mountain scenery of Ninh Binh. Just three hours away from Hanoi, Ninh Binh has remained relatively untouched offering striking limestone karst scenery and a myriad of underground streams and grottos.
• Upon arrival, you will set out to explore the Trang An eco-tourism complex (the third Unesco World Heritage site on your list), and its staggering karst landscapes, replete with secret grottoes, towering peaks, and tranquil streams. Board a sampan for a journey through Trang An’s spectacular network of caves, archways, and grottoes, including Sang Cave, Toi Cave, Ba Giot Cave, and Sinh Cave.

Afternoon

• After lunch, you will continue to visit Hoa Lu, the location of the Ancient Capital of Vietnam dating back to the 11th century. Having been eroded over the millennia, the dilapidated ruins have nearly been absorbed by the spectacular scenery creating a mystical atmosphere that will be sure to titillate your imagination.
• On arrival, dive into the history at the remaining two temples of Dinh and Le Emperors. Restored in the 17th century but the temples are believed to be built on the original foundations of the old palaces from the 11th and 12th centuries.

• Hop on a bike for a leisurely ride through the area, limestone karsts towering above you as you ride along backroads and beautiful scenery. Arrive at Mua Cave Mountain where you enjoy a short hike which leads you to an incredible viewpoint with a spectacular sight of the Ngo Dong River below that cuts its way around the towering mountains.
• At the end of the afternoon. You go back the hotel in Ha Noi.

Overnight in Ha Noi

Sapa Established as a hill station by the French in 1922, Sapa today is a must-visit destination in the Northwest. This is northern Vietnam’s premier trekking base, from where hikers launch themselves into a surrounding countryside of cascading rice terraces and tiny hill-tribe villages that seem a world apart.

6.30 AM: The guide and driver pick up you from the hotel and depart to Sapa.

•  Following the Highway to Lao Cai city. Half way you have a short break arround 20 minutes the continue to Lao Cai city.On the way you can see beautiful natural lanscape, the valley with terraces rice field.

12:30: Arrive in Sapa. Enjoy the lunch with local Vietnamese dishes.check in hotel.

14.30: A short walking to Cat Cat village which is home of Black H’mong ethnic people and islocated 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, trekking down to the valley bottom to the waterfall where the French built a Hydraulic Power Station, short time for photoes with bridge and the waterfall then you will trekking up hill to get back  Sapa with very beautiful  natural scenery in the late afternoon. Trekking distance is about 3,0 kms and it lasts for 2 hours.

17.00: Walking back to Sapa Town. Have dinner and go arround to see night activities.

Overnight in  Sapa

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

8.00: A short drive to Y Linh Ho then trek through the rice terraces and along Muong Hoa Stream to the Black Hmong village of Lao Chai and Ta Van to see the spectacular landscape of Hoang Lien Son Mountain and learn about culture and  custom of  Black Mong and Dzay people. Trekking distance is about 9 kms and it lasts for 3.5 hours

11.30: Go back Sapa Town for lunch and have a short rest until 2 oclock you take the train to cable car to go up the peak to discover the roof of Indochina- Fansipan peak. Back to the town .

Overnight in  Sapa.

You have breakfast.Walking up to visit Dragon head park  to see the whole view of the town and vally. You also  have opportunity to admire beautiful lanscape and many kind of flower.

11: 30 you check out the room. Go to restaurant for lunch. Then get on the sleeping bus  go back Ha Noi .

Overnight in Hue city.

Breakfast, relax until get on the bus to go to the airport  fof flight home.