vietnam tours

Brief Itinerary:
Day 1: Hanoi arrival () – Overnight at hotel in Hanoi
Day 2: Hanoi – Bai Dinh & Trang An complex tour– Night train to Sapa (B,L)
Day 3: Laocai – Sapa –Cat Cat – Shin Chai- Sapa (B,L,D) – Overnight at hotel in Sapa
Day 4: Sapa – Y Linh Ho – Lao Chai - Tavan – Sapa - Laocai (B,L,D) – night train to Hanoi
Day 5: Hanoi – Halong Bay (B,L) – Overnight at hotel in Halong City
Day 6: Halong bay – Hanoi (B,L) – Overnight at hotel in Hanoi
Day 7: Hanoi free time (B)
Day 8: Hanoi departure (B)

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Detailed Itinerary:
Day 1: Hanoi Arrival (meals: No)
Arrive in Hanoi airport. VN Discovery Tours' driver will wait and pick you up to our hotel in the center of Hanoi Old Quarter. Free time to discover night Hanoi.
Overnight at hotel in Hanoi.

    

Day 2: Hanoi – Bai Dinh – Trang An complex– night train to Sapa (meals: B,L)
Morning: Check out hotel. After breakfast, you will enjoy tour.
07:40 – 08:30 Get picked up by our tour guide and bus at your addresses around Hanoi Center then depart for Bai Dinh pagoda and Trang an eco-tourism attraction area (120kms south of Hanoi).
10:30 Arrive in Buddha Sanctuary place of Bai Dinh Pagoda, the biggest one in Vietnam with 500 Arhan statues. You can see a biggest bronze Buddha statue in Vietnam with 10 meters in height, 100 tons in weight. Tour guide also gives you an introduction of beliefs and religions in Vietnam.
12:30 Have lunch in a local restaurant with some special dishes such as goat meat, pork storage vessel….
13:30 Leave for Trang An eco-tourism attraction. You will be amazed by neglected area while having boat trip through cave chains: Sang Cave, Toi Cave, Ba Giot Cave, Sinh Cave…experiencing mysterious views of  the so-called “Ha Long Bay in land”
16:00 Get back to the bus and then return to Hanoi.
18:30 Back in Hanoi, you get dropped off at your address. Tour ends.

    

19:30– our guide will come and pick you upfrom hotel and transfer to Tran Quy Cap train station.
20:25- Train departs and overnight on the train.
4 soft berth sharing cabin (Wooden air conditioner cabin)

Day 3: Laocai - Sapa – Cat Cat – Sin Chai - Sapa (meals: B,L,D)
5:00am: Pick up at Lao Cai train station to Sa Pa by minibus. Arrive in Sa Pa in the mid-morning, then have breakfast, take a shower and relax atthe hotellobby.
We start a walk down to the South-west of Sapa (around 4km) to visit Cat Cat village of the Black H’mong. Relax at the food of the stunning waterfall and the vestiga of a hydroelectric power station that was constructed by the French during the colonial time in Vietnam. Enjoy picnic lunch by the side of the river and then next 6km to Sin Chai, the village located at the foot of Fansipan Mountain, “the roof of Vietnam and Indochina”. From here you can enjoy huge stunning landscapes before climbing up on the way a car to return to Sapa. Check in hotel and free time to discover the Sapa town in the evening before having dinner at our restaurant.
Overnight at hotel in Sapa

    

Day 4: Explore 3 Minority Villages (meals: B,L,D)- Night train to Hanoi
Leaving your hotel after Breakfast, you will walk along the main road heading south for about an hour before turning right to a foot path down hill to Muong Hoa Valley. This part offers spectacular scenery of the highest part of Hoang Lien Son mountain range and in a nice day, Fansipan Peak can be seen. Crossing the river by a suspension bridge you will challenge your feet uphill to Y Linh Ho village. Here you will pay visiting to some H'mong families, watching them doing their daily works. After picnic Lunch, the trail continues up and down hill for about 2 hours as you reach to Lao Chai, a large village of the H'mong. Picnic Lunch and then following the river bank to Ta Van of the Zay people. Paying visiting to local homes, village schools... you will enjoy much your cultural discovery of local ethnic peoples as well as breathtaking scenery of the Muong Hoa Valley. Pick up and transfer back to Sapa in the afternoon, take a shower and then transfer down hill to Lao Cai station for taking the night train to Hanoi.
4 soft berth sharing cabin (Wooden air conditioner cabin)

    

Day 5: Hanoi –Halong bay (meals: B, L)
Arrive in Hanoi around 5:00 Am, our guide will pick you up and transfer you to your hotel. You will relax at the hotel lobby, have breakfast and wait our guide comes and take you to Halong bay..
08.00 around: Pick you up at your hotel, from Hanoi to Halong Bay 175km  it take 3,5 hours. Short break on haft way in Hai Duong Province 25 minutes.
12.30: Arrive Halong harbour, get on Boat for Lunch while cruising around the Bay.
13.00: Visiting floating villageor Caveby kayaking (also available bamboo boat or moto boat if you don't like or don't can kayak by yourdself)
14.00: Visiting ‘’Thien Cung Cave”
16.30: Return to Halong Habour, get on the bus to your Hotel in Halong City.
You have dinner by yourself.
Overnight at hotel 4* in Halong city

    

    

Day 6: Halong bay –Hanoi (meals: B, L)
After beakfast at hotel, you have free time to relax at hotel or discover Halong city and local market.
At 11:30: Check out hotel and our tour guide will pick you up for lunch at the local restaurant then come back to Hanoi.

    

Arrive in Hanoi around 17:00. Check in hotel and free time to discover Hanoi Old Quarter.
Overnight at hotel in Hanoi

    

Day 7: Hanoi free time (meals: B)
You have free time to discover Hanoi with many famous destinations such as Hochiminh complex, Temple of Literature, Hoan Kiem Lake, Hanoi Old Quarter...
Overnight at hotel in Hanoi

    

Day 8: Hanoi – departure(meals: B)
After breakfast, free time until transferred to the airport for your following flight.

PRICE IN USD/PERSON 

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Note:
-          Time check in hotel: 13:00 PM (if we have available room, we will offer you check-in early.
-          Time check out hotel: 12:00 PM

Tour price included:
1.      Accommodation:
-          03 nights at hotel in Hanoi
-          02 nights on the deluxe train (4 soft berths sharing cabin)
-          01 night at hotel in Sapa 
-          01 night at hotel in Halong bay (if you would like overnight on the boat, please contact us)
2.      Transfer
+. Airport transfer for 2 ways
+. Train station transfer for 2 ways in Hanoi and 2 ways in Laocai
+. Transfer during on tour in Halong bay and Bai Dinh – Trang An tour
3.      Entrance fee
+. Entrance fee & boat fee in Bai Dinh & Trang An & Halong bay
+. Entrance fees in Sapa
4.      Meals: 6 breakfasts, 5 lunches, 2 dinners