AISH'S PLAN: VIETNAM ITINERARY 8D7N IN NORTHERN PART

Welcome to Ha Noi the capital of Viet Nam.

Get picked up by our driver from the airport.

Check in hotel.

Overnight in Ha Noi.

06:00 – 06:30: Our bus and guide will pick you up at your hotel and depart to Sapa following Noi Bai – Lao Cai highway. Along the way, you will have a chance to enjoy the beauty of northwestern mountains, terraced fields sparkling in sunlight or dim in thick fog. Have two short breaks in 30 minutes for each and then continue the trip to Sapa.

13.00 – 13:30: Arrive Sapa town and be amazed by the colorful traditional costumes of H’mong, Dzao, Dzay ethnic people. Then, have lunch with local Vietnamese dishes before the hotel check-in.

14:30: You will start hiking to Cat Cat Village which is occupied by the Black H’mong tribe. Here, you can see the hydroelectric power station which was built by the French in the twentieth century. You will experience the tribal way of life of ethnic minorities while enjoying wonderful views of the terraced rice paddy fields and the waterfall in Cat Cat village. Visitors will also understand culture, unique customs, traditional crafts such as weaving, touching carved silver, forged agricultural tools…

Come back to the hotel.

After dinner, you are free to explore the charm of Sapa by night, enjoy roasted corn, baked eggs beside charcoal fire or go shopping. Especially on Saturday night, we highly recommend a stop at the Love Market – one of the unique cultures of ethnic minorities in northwest Vietnam. Overnight at hotel in Sapa.

Overnight in Sapa

07:00: Have breakfast at the hotel.

08:30: Start trekking about 6 kms to the Southeast of Sapa along the slopes of Muong Hoa valley to Y Linh Ho village of Black H’mong. After that, we will continue walking about 3 kms to Lao Chai village of the H’mong people. Tourists need to walk through a small tunnel/over a small bridge leading to Muong Hoa valley to get inside the village.

11:30: Arrive at Ta Van village of Dzay minority, which is exhibiting a strong influence from Chinese culture.

12:00: Enjoy lunch then rest at the local restaurant

14:00: Take a bus ride to return to Sapa

14:30: Enjoy your free time in Sapa for refreshment.

15:00 – 15:30: Catch a bus to travel back to Hanoi.

21:00: Arrive in Hanoi.

Overnight in Ha Noi.

08:00: Our tour guide will pick you up from your hotel. We take you to Ninh Binh province which is far from Hanoi city about 120 km.

09:30: Have a short break for 20 minutes to relax.

10:30: The first destination in this trip is visit Hoa Lu ancient capital. This is the first capital of Vietnam. Come to visit Hoa Lu, you will learn about why the capital was moved to Hanoi nowadays. You are impressed on an outstanding architecture when entering temples of King Dinh and King Le, the first and second emperors of ancient Vietnam, built in the 17th century. Try to feel ancient atmospheres in Hoa Lu ancient capital.

11:45: Having Vietnamese lunch at local restaurant.

13:00: Visit Trang An which was recognized by UNESCO as The World Heritage Site in 2014. Trang An has the wonderful tunnel cave system so that Kong’s Movie Group chose this place for New Version of Kong in 2016 – “Skull Island “. Boat trip to visit Trang An to see the amazing beauty of this landscape with many caves such as: Sang Cave (Light Cave), Toi Cave (Dark cave), Nau Ruou Cave (Cooking Wine), green river and natural view.

15:30: Get on the bus to go to Mua Cave (Dancing Cave). Walk up almost 500 steps, you can reach to the top of Lying Dragon Mountain, have an amazing panoramic view of Tam Coc from here.

16:30 – 17:00: Get on the bus to return to Hanoi

19:30: Arrive to Hanoi and get drop off at the hotel.

Overnight in Hanoi.

07:00 – 07:30: Get picked up at your hotel in Hanoi Old Quarter, departure to Cat Ba Island

10:15 – 10:30: Reach Cat Ba Island, drive on a scenic coastal from Cai Vieng Port to Beo Harbour

11:00: Warmly welcome to SERENITY CRUISES! While enjoying welcome drink, our tour guide will provide key information about the cruise, itineraries, and other notes.

Our captain steers the cruise slowly, and the poetic scenery of Cai Beo ancient fishing village constantly appears with floating houses lying along the mountainside. You will be surprised at the peaceful beauty of this 7,000-year-old village.

The cruise moves further into the core of bay where you can’t help but be amazed by the gift of Mother Nature: a large bay area, the phenomenal emerald water embracing hundreds of rocky islands of various sizes and shapes.

11:30: Savor a delicious lunch (Buffet lunch is served for group from 40 guests)

13:00: After lunch, the cruise sails to Viet Hai Port. Disembark and head to the pier, where you will take electric car/bicycle to the ancient Viet Hai Village. Experience a unique fish-foot massage, stroll through well-preserved traditional houses, or engage in conversations with local residents for a truly memorable experience.

14:30: KAYAKING – SWIMMING

Our Captain and Tour Guide will choose the best stop for the group to experience interesting activities: Swimming in the middle of the sea, boat- jumping, sliding down from the top deck to cool water, kayaking.

(We highly recommend that you wear a life jacket when swimming/ kayaking/playing with water slide…for a safe journey)

15:40: The boat begins its journey back to Beo Harbour. It is perfect time to relax yourself on the top deck with a cup of ordered drink.

16:15: Small sunset party is served with fresh fruit, biscuits & tea.

16:45: Return to Beo Harbour and get on the bus back to Ha Noi.

20:30: Arrive at Hanoi Old Quarter, drop off at the hotel.

Overnight in Hanoi.

06:20 – 06:40: You will get pick up from the hotel in Ha Noi by luxury limousine then depart to Ban Gioc Waterfall – one of the four waterfalls located between 2 countries Viet Nam – China one of the most beautiful waterfalls in Vietnam and top 10 the world.

Our limousine will start leave Ha Noi from old quarter, driver though the highway of Ha Noi –Lang Son, on the way you will see the beautiful rural villages, limestone mountain range.

We drive though Lang Son province on the way you will see many rural villages, rice paddies fields our limousine van will some stop some viewpoint for you to enjoy the view and relax take pictures…

Then we arrive to Dong Khe district of Cao Bang Province. We drive along China border belong to national way to Ban Gioc waterfall, we pass many people places, on the way we have stop to visit a local village to see the daily life of local living and see the vast of sugarcane farm, learn how people do farming.

12:45 – 13:00: Arrive Quang Hoa town for lunch

After lunch, continue the journey to Ban Gioc Waterfall before visit waterfall we will arrive to famous and traditional villages of (Khuoi Ky it mean stone house village) not too far from the waterfall just around 2 km, where we are stay overnight, you will have relaxing and check in the room before we continue to visit the waterfall

On the way to the waterfall, you can see China borders and close to the waterfall on the main road you will see amazing and beautiful of waterfall appear in the valley on the main road you already see spectacular of the waterfall.

We arrive to main gate walk inside the waterfall, where you will enjoy and see how spectacular of the waterfall, our guide will book a sampan to cruise close to the waterfall for you experience on the sampan to see waterfall, we stay on the sampan in the waterfall for around 1 hour.

After that we will be at our homestay, you have free time to walk around the village relaxing and have dinner and happy water party at our homestay.

Overnight in Cao Bang.

07:30: You will have breakfast at homestay then we check out the room take all our luggage to the limousine.

08:30: We continue to visit one of the most beautiful caves in the Northeast of Vietnam, we have about 1,5 hours to discover and visit Nguom Ngao Cave, you will have chance to see amazing of stalactites, and stalagmites and look like some animal wow this will be amazing cave to discover can’t explain how beautiful this is, so let us come to enjoy and see.

09:45: We visit Ban Gioc Pagoda we do hiking up to the pagoda for 300 steps where you well panorama view of Ban Gioc waterfall and China can see the view with beautiful and spectacular of the landscape, in the pagoda you will learn the history about the area.

11:00: We drive back to Ha Noi, on the way we will see many beautiful areas and villages we have some stops for you to visit or for pictures

12.30: We have lunch at the local restaurant to have lunch then continue drive back to the China border national way to Lang Son, then get on the highway Lang Son Ha Noi.

18:30 – 19:00: We will be back to Ha Noi.

Overnight in Ha Noi.

On your last free day in Hanoi you can visit the city spots on your own such as: train street, old quarter, Mega Grand World…These places are easy to visit by yourself.

You need to download Grab before coming to Viet Nam. Because you need to use it to visit city attractions on your own.

Check out hotel. Driver picks up to the airport.

Trip ends.

See you next time!

Note: Driver picks up 3,5 hours before your flight time

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