Hanoi Customized Tours for Ms Susan with 9 persons visiting Duong Lam, Hanoi city, Halong, Tam Coc. Starting from 7/5/2016 and finish on 10/5/2016
ITINERARY
MAY 8th: HANOI ARRIVAL - DUONG LAM ANCIENT VILLAGE - HOA LO PRISON - HANOI FOOD TOUR.
00.30 AM: Pick up from the airport at your time of flight. Take 1 hour drive to town and stay overnight in Hanoi hotel. Hotel Late Check in Request. Stay overnight in Hanoi hotel.
Acc: Hanoi MK Boutique hotel 2 Deluxe Twin and 1 Luxury Triple room
9.00 AM: Start to travel West of Hanoi to Duong Lam village; a pure agricultural village of the Northern Red River delta where many hundred-year-old houses are still preserved. Upon arrival, take a walk along tiny ancient alleys to visit the ancient village with many local attractions including the visit to villagers' ancient houses and vocations. Have lunch in a local family with the authentic Vietnamese food.
After lunch, the small bike ride to further visit the village temples, memorial houses and witness daily life and farming working of Vietnamese peasants along the terrace fields
14. 30: Get on the vehicle to get back to Hanoi city.
16. 00: Visit Hoa Lo prison. Have time to enjoy the water puppet show in Hanoi, Hoan Kiem Lake before the special walking tour to try Hanoi food.
6.00 PM: Start our walking tour in the Old Quarter of Hanoi for the FREE HANOI FOOD TOUR.
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".
Acc: Hanoi MK Boutique hotel 2 Deluxe Twin and 1 Luxury Triple room
MAY 9th: HALONG BAY DAY TOUR
8.a.m: Start at your hotel in Hanoi, we will take a drive of more than 3 hours to come to see on of the world heritages and also known as a New 7 wonders of the new world. We can stop on the way to take photos of local rural life on the way.
12.00: Check-in the boat on the harbor of Halong city. Start the journey to visit the bay in 4 hours. Our cruise will go around 4 kms from shore to Ba Hang island area - the core zone of the Bay. The stunning view of the closest core part of the heritage is here with the beautiful cave of Thien Cung where you can see the the beautiful stalagmites and stalactites growing, listening to the legends of the bay. Enjoy the seafood lunch. The boat cruise will continue to visit Ba Hang fishing village and here you can witness some of the unique fishes and oysters of the bay. Our Dog island, Incense Burner Rock and the Kissing rocks are on the way.
16.00: Back to Halong city and finish the boat trip
19.30: Back to your hotel in Hanoi, end the trip.
MAY 10th: HOA LU - TAM COC TOUR
08.00 am: Pick up at your hotel in Hanoi, depart for Ninh Binh Tour towards to the South of Hanoi, it takes about 2,5 hours to get there(100 km).
10.30 am: Arrive in Bich Dong Pagoda, Visit 2 layers of pagoda with Lower, Medium and Higher pagoda.
12.00: Have lunch at the best Vietnamese restaurant with local food in Tam Coc.
PM: Take an exciting boat ride in Tam Coc grottoes(Halong bay inland) that we will enjoy the spectacular scenery while gliding along the river among rice paddies and ranges of limestone mountains peaking up towers over you(2 hrs).
16.00: Start the drive to return to Hanoi at around 7 pm
Acc: LATE CHECK OUT Hanoi MK Boutique hotel 2 Deluxe Twin till 10.30 PM.
10.30 PM: Private transfer to the airport. End of services.
TOUR NOTICE
-Required Group information needed following VTT's Regulations
What to bring: Cameras, sun block, sunglasses, short and casual shirts.
Tour Start: Daily.
Dress Code: Some temple visit in the 8th and 10th of May, 2016.
- Private boat trip in Halong bay.
- All transportation, entrance tickets, meals and guide.