Day 1: Welcome to Hanoi with airport pick-up.
Upon arrival at Noi Bai airport in Hanoi, welcomed by our drive to your hotel in Hanoi downtown, time to relax after your journey and check in hotel will be 14:00.
- Accommodation: Hotel 3 star in Hanoi
- Meals: + Breakfast & Lunch and Dinner: N/A
Day 2: Hanoi - Hoa Lu - Trang An - Mua cave – By overnight train to Sapa
8:00 our guide will meet you at your hotel and start a 110km modern bus-journey through the verdant landscape of the countryside. Short brake en route.
10:30 Arrivel and visit Hoa Lu Ancient Citadel with Dinh King Temple and Le King Temple dating back to the 17th Century.
12:00 Enjoy lunch at our restaurant with great local cuisine.
13:30 Leave for the Trang An Grottoes, an outstanding natural beauty of majestic limestone massif at 20 square kilometers rise dramatically out from rice paddy fields. Deep into the linked chains of towering mountains are pristine places of mystical valleys, numerous freshwater ponds, and jungle.
Embark on a traditional sampan gently rowed down the exquisite river through numerous caves: Lam Cave, Vang Cave, Dai Cave, Thanh Truot Cave, and Cao Sơn Temple, Suoi Tien Temple, Vu Lam Temple…
16:00 Time to visit Mua Cave, it’s an amazing trek up to the top of Ngoa Long Mountain for watching the spectacular rice valley with a specious view of nature.
17:30 Time for turn back to Ha Noi
21:00 - 21:30: Pick up from your hotel or pick up at our travel office to transfer from Hanoi old quarter to Sapa by overnight train from Hanoi to Sapa with the deluxe sleeping train tickets with 04-soft berths sharing in a cabin with air-conditioned. We are going to arrve in Lao Cai Train Station in the next day morning. (Overnight on the Train from Hanoi to Sapa)
Meals:
+ Breakfast: Hotel
+ Lunch served on tour
+ Dinner: N/A
Accommodation: Deluxe train ticket organized for the overnight train from Hanoi to Sapa with a deluxe cabin with air-conditioned and 4 berths sharring.
NOTE: Private cabin on the train is not included. It is available on request with extra cost.
Day 3: Pick up from train to Sapa - Cat Cat - Sin Chai Village - Hotel in Sapa
5:30 - 6:00: The train will arrive at Lao CAI Train Station. We are going to arrange our staff waiting for you at the gate of train station to meet you by our pick up sign with your name.
6:15 - 7:15: We will take your from Lao Cai Train Station to Sapa Town which is about 38km far from Sapa town to Lao Cai train, it will take us normally, 1 hour going by our shuttle bus or 16 seater ford transit with air-conditioned.
7:15 - 8:15: Enjoy breakfast served in our restaurant and refresh with shower or relax before our English tour guide coming to pick you up from hotel in sapa to start trekking to Cat Cat Village & Cat Cat Waterfall.
8:45 - 9:15: We start walking down the valley toward Cat Cat village for about 4 km. While walking you will see an old French hydro-electric power station which was built in the early 20th century. On the way to Cat Cat village of Black hmong people, you have the opportunity to see the villagers working on the paddy fields,their children playing around.and the animal, such as water-buffaloes, pot-bellied pigs and chickens after crossing a vilage , we”ll arive to a beautiful waterfall wich is a good place for resting & taking pictures.
Later in the afternoon: We will hike to Sin Chai village that situated on the bottom of phanxipang mountain. We will have a picnic lunch in Sin Chai Village, enjoy peaceful scenery and return back to Sapa by car, the tour will be finish and take you back to your hotel in sapa at about 16:00.
16:00 - 22:00: Time to relax and explore around sapa town, shopping, having dinner in the town by yourself.
- Accommodation: Hotel 3 star in Sapa
- Meals:
+ Breakfast, lunch and dinner: Served in the tour as mentioned.
Day 4: Sapa - Lao Chai - Ta Van - Overnight Train Back To Hanoi
7:00 - 8:30: Enjoy the dawn and fresh air, have a nice breakfast served at hotel.
8:30 - 8:45: Our tour guide will pic you up from your hotel to start the trekking to the villages. The trek will lead you through the bamboo forest to Ta Van village of Giay peopleto exploreing the village.
12:15 - 12:45: Have lunch in a local house near the Muong Hoa river bank.
In the afternoon, we will keep going to Lao Chai village - the home of Black Hmong people. Enjoy the view of the largest rice terrace fields in Sapa. Then continue walking to Y Linh Ho village then up the main road and you will return Sapa town by our car pick up from the village to hotel in Sapa.
15:30 - 17:30: Have free time, Freshen up, shopping, relax or having early dinner by yourself.
17:30 - 18:30: Get pick up and then transfer down hill to Lao Cai station for taking the overnight train to Hanoi. Then taking time for getting ticket from our guide and Get on the overnight train from Sapa to Hanoi. (Overnight on Sleeping train with a sharing 4 people in a deluxe cabin)
- Meals: Breakfast + Lunch served in the tour as mentioned.
- Dinner is not included
- Accommodation included: Deluxe train ticket organized for the overnight train from Hanoi to Sapa with a deluxe cabin with air-conditioned and 4 berths sharring.
Day 5: Hanoi – Halong Bay
5:00 - 5:30: The train arrival in Hanoi Trrain Station. Get pick up from Hanoi Train Station to Hotel or our travel office in Hanoi.
Have breakfast by yourself and waiting for pick up Halong Bay tour
8:00 – 8:30 our bus picked up at your hotel in the Old Quarter. Then, head to Hanoi Opera House at for pick up other tourists who are not staying in the pickup area.
Go along the Highway for about 2.5 hours to get to Halong Bay. Spend time on relaxing and contemplating the stunning scenery of peaceful villages, farmers in their green fields by the side of the road. Take a rest during the trip for about 20 minutes.
Arrive at Tuan Chau marina port in Tuan Chau Island and then check in onboard.
Embark on board and let the boat sail around stunning sceneries of Halong Bay with numerous gorgeous limestone cliffs which jut out from jade waters.
While the boat cruises on the bay, you enjoy the seafood lunch on board. After that, the boat will stop at Ba Hang floating village where you can freely enjoy kayaking or bamboo boating and explore two water caves.
The escort cruise will continue heading to Dau Go Island in which there is available the most beautiful cave named Heavenly Cave (Động Thiên Cung). In the late afternoon, head back to Tuan Chau port. Get on the bus to return to Hanoi.
- Accommodation: Hotel 3 star in Hanoi
- Meals:
+ Breakfast & dinner: N/A
+ Lunch: On tour
Day 6: Hanoi Aiport see off
Free time in Hanoi untill your time leaving Hanoi. Our car pick up and transfer to Airport.
- Accommodation: N/A
- Meals:
+ Breakfast: Hotel
+ Lunch & Dinner: N/A
