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Day 1: Hanoi Arrival (D)
Arriving at our one-thousand-year-old capital of Hanoi, you will be welcomed with our guide and escort you to your hotel in the heart of the city. Check in your hotel and be free for relaxing after a long-haul flight. In the evening, you will enjoy a welcomed dinner at a local restaurant with traditional live music. You will spend the night in Hanoi.
Hanoi is neither a bustling city with high-rise buildings, twinkling lights, casinos, disco tech, bars nor a quiet city with low tin-roof houses. Hanoi is famous for small quiet alleys, tree-side boulevards, blue water lakes, the old quarter with traditional tube houses and the French Quarter with colonial architecture.
Day 2: Hanoi Orientation (B/L)
Breakfast will be served at your hotel and then follow our professional guide for a Hanoi orientation. You can choose a classic excursion that comprises of Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum (viewed from outside on every Monday, Friday and afternoons because it’s closed), One-Pillar Pagoda, Tran Quoc Pagoda, Westlake, the temple of Literature – the first university in Vietnam dating back to the 11th century – And after a lunch served at a local restaurant, you will return to the Old Quarter of Hanoi to visit Hoan Kiem Lake, Ngoc Son Temple. Enjoy one-hour cyclo ride between crowded and small streets of the bustling Old Quarter where you can observe the most of local life. Your day ends with a Water Puppet Show at Thang Long Theater.
OR if you’re brave and adventurous, you can choose a day on motorbike, the most popular vehicle of local residents. You can ride your own motorbike or our guide will drive and you just seat behind to take photos. We’re opened to your decision! Wear your helmet and ride thru small streets, reach each conner of Hanoi. The places that can’t be missed are Saint Joseph Cathedral, Long Bien Bridge – the oldest bridge in Hanoi built by French colonialist, West Lake, Quang Ba flower market, and Ho Chi Minh Complex. You can join in Hanoian daily life style by sipping street iced tea and coffee or eating some street foods.
Day 3: Hanoi – Ninh Binh – Hoa Lu – Tam Coc – Bich Dong (B/L)
After breakfast at your hotel, you will depart to Ninh Binh where located Hoa Lu, the former capital of Vietnam in the 10th century. Visit Hoa Lu with the temples of King Le and Dinh before continuing your drive to Tam Coc (means three caves). A sampan are waiting for you there and row along small canals with rice and lotus field on both sides (especially in Summer time from May to July) and surrounded by limestone peaks. The sampan takes you thru three caves. The boat can also stop to visit some pagodas if you wish. Return to the harbor after a two-hour boat trip and lunch will be served at a local restaurant with Vietnamese food. After lunch, take a short bike/drive on country side peaceful road to Bich Dong cave, which was conferred by a King the title “Vietnam’s second most beautiful grotto”. You will climb up to the Truong Yen Mountain (Buddha’s palm), charmed by the marvelous scenery offered by the mountains, rivers and pagodas. Overnight in Ninh Binh.
Optional visit in Ninh Binh: There are many interesting landscapes in Ninh Binh and our other suggestions are Bai Dinh Pagoda and Trang An Grottos.
Bai Dinh pagoda is endowed with both scenic beauty and historical value. It is considered the largest complex of Buddhist pagoda Vietnam, which is either old or new.
The old Bai Dinh Pagoda sits on a 200m high mountain, which has been recognized as a cultural and historical heritage site of Vietnam.
The new Bai Dinh Pagoda covers about 700 hectares, near the site of the old one. On the way to the old pagoda site, pilgrims have to climb stone steps to small ancient places of worship to pray for good luck and enjoy traditional ceremonial singing performed by local artists.
Through the gate into the new Bai Dinh Pagoda area, visitors will see 500 Arhat statues, each 2.4 m high and weighing about 4 tonnes, standing or sitting on both sides. The Bai Dinh Pagoda complex boasts having the biggest bronze Buddha statue in Southeast Asia, about 100 tonnes in weight, and three 50-tonne Buddha statues and two huge bronze bells. Every year, the Bai Dinh Pagoda Festival is held on the sixth day of the first lunar month, attracting tens of thousands of visitors.
Trang An grottos, a community of mountains, caves, river-valleys, woods and cultural and historical relics. This grotto 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, according to the Vietnam News Agency. Each of the caves has its own beauty with many stalactites in a profusion of color. Some of the caves are Toi (Dark) Cave, a 315-meter deep and dark cave, Sang (Light) Cave, a 112 meters deep lighter cave. There is also a 260-meter Nau Ruou (wine brewing) Cave, which, according to legend, has water that makes a delicious wine. Ba Giot (Three Drops) Cave, according to legend, grants a wish to those who catch three drops of water. Unlike Tam Coc grotto, Trang An forms an “indoor” journey and visitors rowing through the cross-water caves get the sensation of a labyrinth. Visitors enter easily enough but need a local guide to find the exit.
Day 4: Ninh Binh - Ha Long Bay – Overnight on traditional wooden junk (B/L/D)
Wake up early this morning and ride a bike along winding paths thru rice field and peaceful village, breath fresh air before returning to your hotel for breakfast. Afterwards, say goodbye to Ninh Binh and proceed to Ha Long Bay. The route takes around three hours and a half drive. Ha Long Bay, one of the World Natural Heritages recognized by UNESCO with over 3,000 spectacular limestone islands rising from the clear, emerald sea in the Gulf of Tonkin. Upon arrival, welcome aboard. Enjoy welcome drink before check in at your cabin. While the junk is passing many rocky islets, caves, floating villages and beaches, your lunch will be served on board with fresh seafood. In the afternoon, visit a floating fishing village by rowing boat. Meet and talk and take photos with the villagers. Late afternoon, your cruise will stop at a quiet lagoon for overnight where you can take time to swim, relax on sundeck or kayak (with extra charge of US$20 per double kayak. Followed the sunset, your dinner will be arranged in a warm atmosphere restaurant between gently lapping waves. Overnight on board.
Day 5: Ha Long Bay - Hanoi (B)
Breakfast is served while the junk cruises around Ha Long Bay, passes by many islets named by their shapes such as Dog, Incense Urn, Fighting Cock, Finger, etc. Stop for a while to explore Surprise Cave - one of the most beautiful caves of the bay. The junk then continues cruising towards the wharf. Check out your cruise at 10:00am. Our car/bus is ready there to pick you up back to Hanoi. Check in your comfortable accommodation and overnight in Hanoi.
Optional visit on the way from Ha Long Bay to Hanoi: The transfer from Ha Long Bay to Hanoi will take three hours and a half if you drive straightly. But it is a very big regret if you ignore the attractions on the way. There is a long list of interesting things that you can fill into your experience.
But Thap Pagoda (Pen Tower) is located on the bank of of the Duong River in Dinh To commune, Thuan Thanh district of the northern province of Bac Ninh, about 30 kilometers northeast of Hanoi. The pagoda is one of the finest pagodas in the north of Vietnam and known as Vietnam’s first Buddhist centre. The pagoda was built under the dynasty of King Tran Nhan Tong in the 13th century and rebuilt in the 17th century in the Le Dynasty.
Dong Ho folk painting is located on the southern side of the Duong River, 40 kilometers to the east of Hanoi. Dong Ho Painting is printed by hand on the surface of wooden plate. Each printing color has its own engraved board. The black one is printed last. Thanks to this way, paintings are made in bulk and do not require sophisticated techniques.
Con Son Pagoda is located at the foot of Con Son Mountain. The pagoda was built at the end of the 13th century. It’s one of the three centers of the Buddhist Truc Lam Trinity under the Tran Dynasty (1225-1400). The pagoda was extended in 1329 and underwent several restorations during the 17th and 18th centuries and in the last few decades. This pagoda is surrounded by mountains, pine forests, and streams.
Dong Trieu Ceramic Village or Bat Trang Ceramic Village isthe most famous hand-made ceremic village in Vietnam. There, you can see how villagers make their beautiful wares in traditional ways.
Quan Ho Folksong is performed at Dinh Bang Village, around 30 kilometers from Hanoi. Quan Ho Folksong was born in the 13th century. They were spring festival songs and performed by farmers in the Red River Delta after the lunar new year. Their stage are courtyards of pagodas.
Day 6: Hanoi – Departure (B)
You will be free today until our guide and driver comes to pick you up to the airport for your departure flight.
Arriving at our one-thousand-year-old capital of Hanoi, you will be welcomed with our guide and escort you to your hotel in the heart of the city. Check in your hotel and be free for relaxing after a long-haul flight. In the evening, you will enjoy a welcomed dinner at a local restaurant with traditional live music. You will spend the night in Hanoi.
Hanoi is neither a bustling city with high-rise buildings, twinkling lights, casinos, disco tech, bars nor a quiet city with low tin-roof houses. Hanoi is famous for small quiet alleys, tree-side boulevards, blue water lakes, the old quarter with traditional tube houses and the French Quarter with colonial architecture.
Day 2: Hanoi Orientation (B/L)
Breakfast will be served at your hotel and then follow our professional guide for a Hanoi orientation. You can choose a classic excursion that comprises of Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum (viewed from outside on every Monday, Friday and afternoons because it’s closed), One-Pillar Pagoda, Tran Quoc Pagoda, Westlake, the temple of Literature – the first university in Vietnam dating back to the 11th century – And after a lunch served at a local restaurant, you will return to the Old Quarter of Hanoi to visit Hoan Kiem Lake, Ngoc Son Temple. Enjoy one-hour cyclo ride between crowded and small streets of the bustling Old Quarter where you can observe the most of local life. Your day ends with a Water Puppet Show at Thang Long Theater.
OR if you’re brave and adventurous, you can choose a day on motorbike, the most popular vehicle of local residents. You can ride your own motorbike or our guide will drive and you just seat behind to take photos. We’re opened to your decision! Wear your helmet and ride thru small streets, reach each conner of Hanoi. The places that can’t be missed are Saint Joseph Cathedral, Long Bien Bridge – the oldest bridge in Hanoi built by French colonialist, West Lake, Quang Ba flower market, and Ho Chi Minh Complex. You can join in Hanoian daily life style by sipping street iced tea and coffee or eating some street foods.
Day 3: Hanoi – Ninh Binh – Hoa Lu – Tam Coc – Bich Dong (B/L)
After breakfast at your hotel, you will depart to Ninh Binh where located Hoa Lu, the former capital of Vietnam in the 10th century. Visit Hoa Lu with the temples of King Le and Dinh before continuing your drive to Tam Coc (means three caves). A sampan are waiting for you there and row along small canals with rice and lotus field on both sides (especially in Summer time from May to July) and surrounded by limestone peaks. The sampan takes you thru three caves. The boat can also stop to visit some pagodas if you wish. Return to the harbor after a two-hour boat trip and lunch will be served at a local restaurant with Vietnamese food. After lunch, take a short bike/drive on country side peaceful road to Bich Dong cave, which was conferred by a King the title “Vietnam’s second most beautiful grotto”. You will climb up to the Truong Yen Mountain (Buddha’s palm), charmed by the marvelous scenery offered by the mountains, rivers and pagodas. Overnight in Ninh Binh.
Optional visit in Ninh Binh: There are many interesting landscapes in Ninh Binh and our other suggestions are Bai Dinh Pagoda and Trang An Grottos.
Bai Dinh pagoda is endowed with both scenic beauty and historical value. It is considered the largest complex of Buddhist pagoda Vietnam, which is either old or new.
The old Bai Dinh Pagoda sits on a 200m high mountain, which has been recognized as a cultural and historical heritage site of Vietnam.
The new Bai Dinh Pagoda covers about 700 hectares, near the site of the old one. On the way to the old pagoda site, pilgrims have to climb stone steps to small ancient places of worship to pray for good luck and enjoy traditional ceremonial singing performed by local artists.
Through the gate into the new Bai Dinh Pagoda area, visitors will see 500 Arhat statues, each 2.4 m high and weighing about 4 tonnes, standing or sitting on both sides. The Bai Dinh Pagoda complex boasts having the biggest bronze Buddha statue in Southeast Asia, about 100 tonnes in weight, and three 50-tonne Buddha statues and two huge bronze bells. Every year, the Bai Dinh Pagoda Festival is held on the sixth day of the first lunar month, attracting tens of thousands of visitors.
Trang An grottos, a community of mountains, caves, river-valleys, woods and cultural and historical relics. This grotto 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, according to the Vietnam News Agency. Each of the caves has its own beauty with many stalactites in a profusion of color. Some of the caves are Toi (Dark) Cave, a 315-meter deep and dark cave, Sang (Light) Cave, a 112 meters deep lighter cave. There is also a 260-meter Nau Ruou (wine brewing) Cave, which, according to legend, has water that makes a delicious wine. Ba Giot (Three Drops) Cave, according to legend, grants a wish to those who catch three drops of water. Unlike Tam Coc grotto, Trang An forms an “indoor” journey and visitors rowing through the cross-water caves get the sensation of a labyrinth. Visitors enter easily enough but need a local guide to find the exit.
Day 4: Ninh Binh - Ha Long Bay – Overnight on traditional wooden junk (B/L/D)
Wake up early this morning and ride a bike along winding paths thru rice field and peaceful village, breath fresh air before returning to your hotel for breakfast. Afterwards, say goodbye to Ninh Binh and proceed to Ha Long Bay. The route takes around three hours and a half drive. Ha Long Bay, one of the World Natural Heritages recognized by UNESCO with over 3,000 spectacular limestone islands rising from the clear, emerald sea in the Gulf of Tonkin. Upon arrival, welcome aboard. Enjoy welcome drink before check in at your cabin. While the junk is passing many rocky islets, caves, floating villages and beaches, your lunch will be served on board with fresh seafood. In the afternoon, visit a floating fishing village by rowing boat. Meet and talk and take photos with the villagers. Late afternoon, your cruise will stop at a quiet lagoon for overnight where you can take time to swim, relax on sundeck or kayak (with extra charge of US$20 per double kayak. Followed the sunset, your dinner will be arranged in a warm atmosphere restaurant between gently lapping waves. Overnight on board.
Day 5: Ha Long Bay - Hanoi (B)
Breakfast is served while the junk cruises around Ha Long Bay, passes by many islets named by their shapes such as Dog, Incense Urn, Fighting Cock, Finger, etc. Stop for a while to explore Surprise Cave - one of the most beautiful caves of the bay. The junk then continues cruising towards the wharf. Check out your cruise at 10:00am. Our car/bus is ready there to pick you up back to Hanoi. Check in your comfortable accommodation and overnight in Hanoi.
Optional visit on the way from Ha Long Bay to Hanoi: The transfer from Ha Long Bay to Hanoi will take three hours and a half if you drive straightly. But it is a very big regret if you ignore the attractions on the way. There is a long list of interesting things that you can fill into your experience.
But Thap Pagoda (Pen Tower) is located on the bank of of the Duong River in Dinh To commune, Thuan Thanh district of the northern province of Bac Ninh, about 30 kilometers northeast of Hanoi. The pagoda is one of the finest pagodas in the north of Vietnam and known as Vietnam’s first Buddhist centre. The pagoda was built under the dynasty of King Tran Nhan Tong in the 13th century and rebuilt in the 17th century in the Le Dynasty.
Dong Ho folk painting is located on the southern side of the Duong River, 40 kilometers to the east of Hanoi. Dong Ho Painting is printed by hand on the surface of wooden plate. Each printing color has its own engraved board. The black one is printed last. Thanks to this way, paintings are made in bulk and do not require sophisticated techniques.
Con Son Pagoda is located at the foot of Con Son Mountain. The pagoda was built at the end of the 13th century. It’s one of the three centers of the Buddhist Truc Lam Trinity under the Tran Dynasty (1225-1400). The pagoda was extended in 1329 and underwent several restorations during the 17th and 18th centuries and in the last few decades. This pagoda is surrounded by mountains, pine forests, and streams.
Dong Trieu Ceramic Village or Bat Trang Ceramic Village isthe most famous hand-made ceremic village in Vietnam. There, you can see how villagers make their beautiful wares in traditional ways.
Quan Ho Folksong is performed at Dinh Bang Village, around 30 kilometers from Hanoi. Quan Ho Folksong was born in the 13th century. They were spring festival songs and performed by farmers in the Red River Delta after the lunar new year. Their stage are courtyards of pagodas.
Day 6: Hanoi – Departure (B)
You will be free today until our guide and driver comes to pick you up to the airport for your departure flight.
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