Your holiday starts as we collect you at Ha Noi airport (Noi Bai), you are met and transferred to your hotel (check in time: 14:00). Overnight in Hanoi.

Followed by a full day city tour starting with the Ho Chi Minh Complex, containing the mausoleum of the nation’s founder Ho Chi Minh, the Presidential Palace, Ho Chi Minh’s house on stilts. Close to this site is the One Pillar Pagoda, whose origin dates back to the foundation of Hanoi a thousand years ago. Your tour of Hanoi continues with a trip to the remarkable Temple of Literature, well known as Vietnam’s first university.

After your own lunch, you’ll enjoy a walk around the peaceful Hoan Kiem Lake and through the less peaceful Old Quarter, a bewildering maze of shopping streets and restaurants with an amazing assortment of architecture - traditional tube houses, countless pagodas, artisans’ workshops and cottages, colonial houses and modern concrete edifices. You will see an evening performance of Hanoi's famous water puppets. Overnight in Hanoi.

*If the history is too much, you can click here to view this option include litter history & visit traditional village 

After an early breakfast you start with a transfer out to the internationally famous and stunning beautiful Halong Bay, made world famous by James Bond in Tomorrow Never Dies. Arriving just before lunch, you’ll embark on a traditional Vietnamese cruise. Take lunch on board and enjoy the afternoon and overnight cruise as it provides you with fantastic views of the fabulous scenery blending with the sky and some 3,000 limestone islands which amazingly rise from the clear and emerald water. The limestone karst formations are littered with beaches, grottoes and beautiful caves, some of which you’ll visit. Overnight on board in Halong Bay.

*The details cruise program will be update upon confirmed depend on your choice of cruise

The tour continues with a morning spent cruising on to the Man’s Head, Tortoise islands and then Luon Cave by small bamboo boat. After an brunch check out and continue to travel though Bai Tu Long to Bai Chay for disembark, meet the driver and guide to transfer you back to Hanoi. On the way we stop to visit But Thap Pagoda and Dong Ho painting village. Overnight in Hanoi

After breakfast at your hotel you will experience the new highway to Sapa take about 5 hours instead of 9 or 10 hours like used to. 

In the afternoon, we will visit Lao Chai and Tavan village estimate about 4 hours walking to visit Black H’Mong minority people who first lived in Vietnam in the 17th & 18th century and Dzay people before return to Sapa

After breakfast at the hotel you will continue to visit a tribe market (not open on Monday). At these market many minority groups like Flower H’mong, Black Zao, Zay…come to trade for their weekly plan
 
After lunch, you drive downhill for about half an hour. You will then start a short walk to Trung Do village, which belongs to the Tay minority. Here you can stop by a traditional Tay house for a cup of tea before you get on a boat. You will have a cruise downstream the Chay River to experience the picturesque scenes and the magnificent sight of a beautiful cave. The boat ride ends at Bao Nhai bridge, where you get on the car for the journey back to Hanoi. Overnight in Hanoi.

There is some time free on your own before transfer to airport for departure, trip ends upon arrival at airport.