Hanoi, Ha Long, Sapa Tour - 6 Days/5 Nights in Vietnam

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 corners 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 the Hoan KiemLake, its history dating back to the 13th century. The temple is reached by crossing the 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 were related to the products being sold there. It’s a great place to explore on foot with numerous photo opportunities.

Before 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, visit cave... (depending on each cruise’s itinerary). Stay overnight on the cruise.

DAY 4: HA LONG BAY – SAPA (B, L, D)

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 Sapa. Overnight in Sapa.

DAY 5: SAPA DISCOVERY (MEALS: B, L, D)

After breakfast, our guide will pick you up and we start to take a walk to Cat Cat village of the Black Hmong minority. You’ll have a chance to explore local life as well as the traditions of Black Hmong minority.

At noon, lunch will be served at a local restaurant.

In the afternoon, we visit Lao Chai and Ta Van village of the Black Hmong and the Day people where you can enjoy fresh air, amazing scenery of the imposing mountain range, trek down world's most beautiful, terraced rice fields, visit some local family on the way and learn unique culture and life of these ethnic groups.

Overnight in Sapa.

DAY 6: FANSIPAN PEAK – HANOI (MEALS: B, L)

After breakfast, we are heading to visit Fansipan Peak – known as “the roof of Indochina”, get on the cable car to nearly the top of Fansipan Peak and spend 20 minutes with cable car to enjoy the spectacular scenery.

After 20 minutes on cable car, you reach the altitude of 2800 meters. Then spend a good time to see the view and take photos, visit pagoda the spiritual destinations before getting on another walk up to the top of Fansipan Peak. Enjoy the wonderful panoramic view and take photos.

Have lunch at local restaurant before driving to Noi Bai International Airport. Arrive at the airport, our guide and driver say goodbye to you! See you soon! End of services!