DAY 1: HANOI FREE FOOD TOUR 29/4/2017
At 18. 00: meet at your hotel lobby & start our walking tour in the Old Quarter of Hanoi.
The main stops are at the most Only-One-Dish-famous shops or restaurants owned by families who have been making certain famous traditional dishes in Hanoi for years. These famous dishes of Hanoi culinary experience will come one after the other during the walking tour in this Hanoi National Heritage area. The experience will not only bring you the real local Hanoi dishes but also the special way of enjoying it as a part of the daily culinary life in Hanoi!
The journey will bring you down to the local market to learn about Vietnamese cooking and eating habits. This industrialized haste and busy life creates a lot of fast foods. Hanoians are lucky to be able to eat delicious home-cooked meals in a busy city at any time! The walking takes you down to some smaller walkways and alleys which you would not normally enter. It is time we find "A City Inside A City".
21. 00: Finish the tour at your hotel in Hanoi.
ACC: Highlight Service: Hanoi Golden Cyclo Hotel Standard room (4*)
DAY 2: HANOI CITY TOUR WITH TAILORED ITINERARY (Breakfast, Lunch) (30/4/2017) Private Only
08.30 AM: Start from your hotel in Hanoi, we will come to the heart of the city for the main attractions in town. Today, the first destination we are going to visit Ho Chi Minh historical Complex; visit to Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum and his residence relics 50 years ago to understand why Vietnamese people worship him and the human beings respect him: the nationalist! The journey would bring you to the One Pillar pagoda - the unique 1000 years old pagoda in the area. The Ba Dinh Square, House on Stilts, and Presidential Palace are located inside Ho Chi Minh Complex also.
10. 00 AM: Continue the visit to Hoa Lo Prison.
12. 00: Enjoy the special Vietnamese lunch at one of the best local Vietnamese food restaurant in Hanoi
13. 00: Visit Temple of Literature, which is known the place worshiping Confucius and as the first university in our country 1000 years ago.
14. 00: Visit Ngoc Son (Jade) temple & Restored Sword Lake.
15. 00: Visit Hanoi Old Quarter, take a rickshaw tour to see the Old Quarter, shopping in Hang Gai street, Hang Dau street.
17. 00: Drop off at your hotel, end the service.
ACC: Highlight Service: Hanoi Golden Cyclo Hotel Standard room (4*)
DAY 3:TAM COC - HOA LU. HANOI - TRAIN TO SAPA (B, L) (1/5/2017)
For Tam Coc - Hoa Lu tour, there will be 2 options of private tour and group tour. You can view the details on our site at: http://asiapearltravel.com/tour/tam-coc-private-day-tour/?cat_book=1
Tour itinerary
08:00 - 08:30 AM: Shuttle bus goes around to pick up tourists staying in the hotels inside the Old Quarter. Starting drive to Ninh Binh Province
10:30 Arriving at Hoa Lu Ancient Capital. Visit King Dinh and King Le’s temples - the 2 temples dedicating to 2 kings of Vietnam.
12:00 Arriving in Tam Coc Wharf. Have buffet lunch with Vietnamese Cuisine.
13:30 Getting on Sampan boats through caves and visiting countryside landscape
15:30: Back to Tam Coc Wharf to chill out. Bike on country road around village, visit Bich Dong Pagoda.
16:30 Getting on shuttle bus to go back to Hanoi
18:30 Saying goodbye to you at your hotel/stay. Trip ends
21:00: Transfer to Hanoi Trail Station for night train to Sapa.
DAY 4: SAPA TOUR - COC LY MARKET (B, L, D) (2/5/2017) Private only
Our tour guide will pick you up at Lao Cai Train Station then leave early at 6:30 AM for CocLy market. Enjoy the peaceful life of 6 different minority peoples (Flower H'mong, Black Dzao, Tay, Dzay, HaNhi and Nung). The market is the chance for the minorities to meet and share joy and sorrows after the crops, to exchange one another's experience. Say goodbye to the market and get down onto a boat along Chay river. You are bound to feel great and find yourselves smaller among high rock mountains and to be surprised at white and breathtakingly waterfalls. The Fairy Cave is located deeply in the rocks. Get off the boat to visit a village of the Tay Minority (TrungDo village) by the river. After the boat trip, visit a small town - BaoNhai and then take Car back to Sapa Town. Overnight in the town.
ACC: Sapa Sunny Mountain Hotel 4* Deluxe room.
DAY 5: SAPA - Y LINH HO - LAO CHAI - TA VAN (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner) (3/5/2017) 2 options of Private tour & group tour.
After breakfast, Sapa Local guide greets and meet! we will take a 6km walking down to the south east of Sapa along the side of Muong Hoa valley to Y Linh Ho village of the Black H’mong. A 2km-trekking down to Lao Chai village, through terraced rice fields to Ta Van village of the Dzay minority people. where we stay overnight in a local family. Here you have opportunity to experience their daily life, work and original custom.
ACC: Homestay in Ta Van Village.
DAY 6: TA VAN - GIANG TA CHAI - SU PAN - SAPA - DCAR TO HANOI (Breakfast, Lunch) (4/5/2017)
After breakfast at the home stay, we will take 14 km walking to visit 2 villages of the red Dzao, the H’mong (Giang Ta Chai & Su Pan). Visit a beautiful waterfall and rattan bridge. Enjoy landscapes… through bamboo forest on the way to the main road to get A Car to return to Sapa.
Free time in the afternoon to discover Sapa town before the Dcar luxury van to get to Hanoi. Stay in the hotel in Hanoi.
Around 9.00 PM: Arrive at Hanoi, shuttle bus brings you back to your hotel in Hanoi. End of services.
ACC: Highlight Service: Hanoi Golden Cyclo Hotel Standard room (4*)
Day 7-8-9-10: 5-6-7-8/5/2017: Halong bay (Your own arrangement)
