NORTH DISCOVERY 12 DAYS

Upon the arrival at Hanoi airport, you will be met by our local guide and driver at the Noi Bai airport, then transferred to hotel. Take a rest.

Overnight at Hanoi

Meals: NA

Accommodation: Hotel in Hanoi

At 8.00AM, our tour guide and driver will pick you up at the hotel for city tour. You will visit the followings:

• Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, where his body is being embalmed, is your first stop. Keep walking to see the Presidential Palace, a nice French architecture in the garden, and Ho Chi Minh House on stilts, where you can learn about the simple life of Vietnam's first president, who is loved by most Vietnamese. Walk through the poetry fishpond to the One Pillar Pagoda, one of Hanoi's most popular attractions with its unique architecture.
• Visit the Temple of Literature, Confucius Temple, and Vietnam's earliest university to learn about feudal education.
• Take an interesting experience on local train from Gia lam station to Long Bien station. You will see how Vietnamese people taking the train and sometimes you will see the vendors selling breads and snacks, fruits on train. 
• Have lunch at local restaurant.
• Visit Hoa Lo prision - Hanoi Hilton to experience Vietnam's battles and American pilots' prison life.
• Drive back to Hanoi's Old Quarter and ride a cyclo around the 36 historic streets. Slow-speed tours allow you to fully appreciate the capital's historic and modern.
• Enjoy water puppet show, the authentic show in Hanoi

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Accommodation: Hotel in Hanoi

• Have breakfast at the hotel to fuel up for the tour in the morning. After that, you'll take a bus to Ba Be National Park, which is about 260 km away and will take about 7 hours to reach. Because the trip to Ba Be Lake will take a long time, you will stop for lunch along the way.
• Get to Ba Be late in the afternoon. You will take a 30-minute boat ride to the town where the boatmen live. After you get to the house in Pac Ngoi village, you can walk around the village to see how people live there and then eat dinner there.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation: Homestay in Ba Be

• After breakfast at your homestay, the tour guide will pick you up to go on a hike to Pac Ngoi village and see the stilt houses that fit in with the beautiful nature of the Ba Be area. After the hiking, you'll ride your bikes to Tay Ethnic to explore an amazing mountain cave. Travel about 5 km by bike to Silk Waterfall. You can swim in the stream if the weather is nice. You will have a picnic lunch at the romantic waterfall. Walk around the lakeside of Ba Be and take shots of the sunset. You can go to the local market to find unique gifts and then come back to our homestay.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation: Homestay in Ba Be

• Have breakfast before transferring to Meo Vac.
• Around 07:30, take a road transfer from Ba Be to Meo Vac, which takes about 6 hours.
• You'll stop for lunch and a short break on the way to Meo Vac.
• When you get to Meo Vac town, where people from the Lo Lo and Pu Peo ethnic minorities live, you will eat dinner and sleep at your homestay.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation: Hotel in Meo Vac

• Breakfast at the homestay.
• 07:30: Transfer from Meo Vac to Dong Van, a limestone plateau inhabited by the Blue Hmong.  A 30 km meandering zigzag route connects Dong Van with Meo Vac. Enjoy the alpine landscape. Dong Van market is held every Sunday.
• Visit Pho Bang to visit the royal Vuong Chi Sinh family's Chinese-European home. Continue to Quan Ba, Yen Minh, to see the "Heaven Gate" on the tallest mountain in the region. From here, you can see Ha Giang's mountains and terraced fields in all their verdant glory. Arrive in Ha Giang in the late afternoon. Have dinner and spend the night in the village.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation: Hotel in Ha Giang

• After breakfasting in the hotel. You will leave for Bac Ha town at 07:30, and it will take you about 6 hours to get there. Since getting to Bac Ha takes a long time, you eat lunch on the way.
• If we have time, we will stop for a short visit at the Flower Hmong town of Thai Giang Pho. There, you can learn about the daily lives of people from an ethnic group. Go to the hotel and check in. Have dinner on your own and stay at your hotel for the night.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation: Hotel in Bac Ha

• Have breakfast in Bac Ha before starting the next trip.
• At 6:30 a.m., leave Bac Ha for the ethnic weekly market, where you can see how peaceful life is for different minority groups. You can try unique food that is only sold at this mountainous market and buy small souvenirs to take home after your trip to Vietnam.
• After the tour of the local market, get off the bus and onto a boat on the Chay River to visit a village of the Tay Minority.
• Visit Bao Nhai, a small town with many beautiful natural sights of the Northern mountainous area. Enjoy the poetic scenery of this town, then take a car back to Sapa.

• Take a leisure at hotel.

NOTE: Depending on the date of travelling, the market visit will be scheduled instead of the Coc Ly market. Here's the other ethnic market's schedule:

• • Coc Ly market: every Tuesday morning
  • Sin Cheng & Cao Son market: every Wednesday 
  • Lung Khau Nhin & Muong Khuong market: every Thursday
  • Can Cau market: every Saturday morning
  • Bac Ha market: every Sunday morning

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Accommodation: Hotel in Sapa

• You should eat breakfast at the hotel. Your local tour guide will pick you up to take you hiking.
• Walk to Y Linh Ho village, which is near the Muong Hoa River. Then, continue trekking to the Black Hmong village of Lao Chai. The Black Hmong are one of the largest minority groups in the Sapa area. • Head to the Zay village of Ta Van, which is 1200 meters above sea level. You can get away from the busy life of the city and enjoy the quiet here.
• After the long hike, you can take a car back to Sapa town.

Evening

• Have free time to explore Sapa and stay overnight in the hotel in Sapa.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Accommodation: Hotel in Sapa

• Have breakfast at the hotel and check out, then prepare for a new hiking expedition to one of the North's most picturesque mountain communities.
• One of Sapa's most famous ethnic settlements, Cat Cat hamlet, is 3 kilometers southwest of Sapa. Relax and appreciate the waterfall in the village.
• Have a riverside picnic meal.
• Trek 3 km to Sin Chai village at the base of Fansipan Mountain, "the Roof of Indochina," and take in the mountain's breathtaking scenery.
• Return to the jeep and travel 3km to Sapa town. Sharing a limousine to Hanoi follows.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Accommodation: Hotel in Hanoi

• After breakfast, at 07:00AM you will be transfer to Halong
• At 10:00AM, you arrive Halong bay and enjoy the scenic view from Seaplane for 25mins.
• Transfer to cruise and get on the cruise.
• 12:45: Our support vessel will transport you from the wharf to Cruise. Welcome drinks, cool towels, and a special meal of fresh cuisine and tasty treats will be served. Luxury trash dining will enchant you. This is life's best! We then sailed to World's Most Beautiful Bay Lan Ha Bay.
• 15:30: We'll explore Lan Ha Bay's Dark and Bright cave. Photograph the lovely, lyrical local sights here. Tourists can enjoy bamboo boating or swimming to see Lan Ha Bay's limestone mountains and azure sky at their best. Visitors then swim at Lan Ha Bay's emerald sea or relax in Cruise's tiny pool with jacuzzi.
• 17:30: Cruises return. LanHa Bay sunset celebration. Lan Ha Bay sunsets are wonderful for photographers.
• 19:30: Have dinner on Cruise restaurant
• 21:00–00:00: Enjoy bay nightlife from the top deck. Enjoy music, a drink from the bar, classic flicks, and a cruise. You may fish squid with the sailors or rest on the balcony and watch the bay.
• Cruise overnight.

• 6:30–7:30: Have breakfast.
• 8:00: Frog Pond, kayaking, or relaxing in Lan Ha Bay's four-season small pool.
• Checkout: 9:30. After lunch, pay any extra fees at the reception and head to the dock. Please pay any front desk fees while traveling to the port.
• 11:15–11:30: Disembark and return to port.
• 11h30–11h45: Tuan Chau International Marina Station. Get on the car for transfer to the airport for flight back home.
• Trip ends

Meals: Breakfast, Brunch

Accommodation: NA