HANOI – HA LONG BAY – NINH BINH – MAI CHAU – PU LUONG TOUR

Duration: 8 days 7 nights

Accommodation: 3–5-star hotel/resort

Itinerary

DAY 1: HANOI ARRIVAL – FOOD TOUR (MEALS: D)

Upon arrival at Noi Bai airport, our guide and driver will meet you at the airport and transfer to your hotel in city center. In the afternoon, you’ll join food tour and discover every corner of the Hanoi Old Quarter.

You’ll enjoy amazing local food including:

Banh Cuon: Vietnamese steamed rice rolls.
Bun Cha: rice noodles with barbecue pork.
Hoa Qua Dam: fruit beams - one of the most popular cooling dishes for young people on hot summer days. In the sweltering weather, enjoying a cup of sweet, refreshing, and cool beams of fruit is a wonderful thing that everyone loves.
Egg – coffee: a Vietnamese drink traditionally prepared with egg yolks, sugar, condensed milk and robusta coffee.

Finally, we are heading to Ta Hien Street. It’s known as “beer corner of the Hanoi Old Quarter”. Our guide will take you back your hotel. Overnight in Hanoi.

DAY 2: HANOI CITY TOUR (MEALS: B, L)

After breakfast, our tour guide will meet you in the hotel lobby. We will visit Hanoi with Ho Chi Minh Complex that completed in 1975. We visit outside Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum. The complex includes the Presidential Palace, House-on-Stilts, the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum and One Pillar pagoda. After that we will visit the Temple of Literature that was originally built as a temple to Confucius, this is the site of Vietnam’s first University dating back to 1070. The temple highlights the importance of Vietnamese society for education.

Have lunch at a nice restaurant in city center.

After lunch, we continue our trip to visit Ngoc Son Temple and Hoan Kiem Lake: The Ngoc Son temple is set on a tiny island on Hoan Kiem Lake, its history dating back to the 13th century. The temple is reached by crossing the Huc Bridge which literally means the ‘Place Touched by Morning Sunbeams’. The Hoan Kiem Lake is the local point of the city and the source of many legends. After that, we take 45 minutes Cyclo Tour through the Old Quarter: Also known as the 36 streets, this bustling area of narrow streets is home to literally thousands of small businesses and shopkeepers.

Originally, each of the 36 street names was related to the products being sold there. It’s a great place to explore on foot with numerous photo opportunities. Before going back to your hotel, we will enjoy the water puppet show at Thang Long theatre – a traditional performance of Vietnamese. Overnight in Hanoi.

DAY 3: HANOI – HA LONG BAY (MEALS: B, L, D)

After your breakfast, we leave Hanoi for Ha Long Bay in 3 hours’ drive. Ha Long Bay is known as the most famous World Heritage Site in Vietnam for its beautiful seascape, thousands of spectacular islands and islets jutting out from the sea, amazing caves with marvelous stalagmites and stalactites in different sizes and shapes.

Upon arrival, you'll be welcomed on board. Lunch will be served while the boat is sailing to Ha Long Bay. In the afternoon, we’ll join some activities: sightseeing, kayaking, swimming, visiting cave... (depending on each cruise’s itinerary). Stay overnight on the cruise.

DAY 4: HA LONG BAY – NINH BINH (B, L)

Enjoy the morning view of the beautiful landscape with a cup of coffee or tea then have breakfast. After breakfast, the cruise will bring you on a trip to explore deeper inside the bay. The brunch will be served on the way sailing back to the port and our driver will pick you up and transfer to Ninh Binh. Overnight in Ninh Binh.

DAY 5: NINH BINH – MAI CHAU (B, L, D)

After your breakfast, we visit Hoa Lu, the picturesque site of a 10th-century capital of an ancient Vietnamese Kingdom called Dai Co Viet for 41 years (968-1009). You will visit the 2 prominent temples called King Dinh Temple & King Le Temple. After that, we take the amazing boat trip to visit Trang An grottoes which is a gathering of 31 valleys, 50 cross-water caves, and home to 600 kinds of flora and over 200 kinds of fauna, many of them in the Red Book of Vietnam. While rowing through Trang An grotto in the quiet, fresh air of the highlands, with only the sound of birds and the oars stirring the clear water and surrounded by magnificent, forested mountains upon which graze white goats, visitors enjoy a heaven on earth.

Lunch will be served at a local restaurant.

After lunch, we are heading to Mai Chau. Stay overnight in Mai Chau.

DAY 6: MAI CHAU – PU LUONG (MEALS: B, L, D)

After breakfast at local hotel/homestay. We start trekking Lac & Poom Coong Villages where Thai People are living. You’ll have a chance to discover local culture & traditions.

After that, we start biking along rice paddy fields and interact with local hill tribe people here.

Lunch will be served at local restaurant.

After lunch, we start to visit Na Meo and Na Mo villages. After that, we are heading to Pu Luong and check in. Overnight in Pu Luong.

DAY 7: PU LUONG DISCOVERY (MEALS: B, L, D)

After your breakfast, you will be transferred to a suspension bridge over the Cham River, where you begin your walk-in search of stunning water wheels. Get up close to each wheel and discover how water is moved from river to handmade bamboo aqueducts via simple constructions of all sizes. After that, we gear up for the bamboo river rafting. Float along the calm river and enjoy the views, in between learning how to paddle and steer your handcrafted rafts.

Lunch is served at local restaurant.

In the afternoon, we will start trekking to Uoi village – a small village with amazing rice terraces. You’ll immerse yourself into beautiful scenery.

Dinner is served at local restaurant. Overnight in Pu Luong.

DAY 8: PU LUONG – HANOI (MEALS: B, L)

You enjoy breakfast at the resort. Today, you are free at your leisure. Lunch will be served at local restaurant. After lunch, we are heading back to Noi Bai International Airport. Our guide & driver say goodbye to you! End of services.

INCLUSION

Accommodation with daily breakfasts
Private AC transportation as mentioned in the itinerary
Meals indicated in the program. B=breakfast, L=Lunch, D=Dinner
English speaking guide
Shared boat trip in Ha Long Bay as mentioned in the itinerary
Boat trip in Trang An
Entrance fees
Drinking water on car

EXCLUSION

Personal expenses
Tips
Surcharge for Peak Season, Holiday, Special Occasion
Others not mentioned in the program.

CHILDREN POLICY

The price for children applicable for one child sharing a twin or double cabin with 2 adults.
The children under 4 years old are FOC (not included domestic flight ticket)
4-7 years old without bed: 50% adult rate
8-10 years old without bed: 75% adult rate
From 11 years old: Adult rate