ACC:  Highlight Service: Hanoi Golden Cyclo Hotel Standard room (4*)

ACC:  Highlight Service: Hanoi Golden Cyclo Hotel Standard room (4*)

21. 00: Transfer to the train station for the train to Sapa (Lao Cai). Stay overnight on the train to Lao Cai

6.00 AM: Pick up at the train station of Lao Cai to the hotel in Sapa. Have breakfast at the hotel. 

9.00 AM: Start the 12km of trekking, visit Y Linh Ho and Lao Chai villages of the H’mong minority. after lunch at a local family in Lao Chai or in a drinking shop nearby the river bank, we keep on hiking to Ta Van village of the Dzay where we stay. overnight in a local family. Here you have opportunity to experience their daily life, work and original custom. 

ACC: Home-stay at the Dzay local house

 After pancake made by your host family, we continue to discover Giang Ta Chai village, then Su Pan villages of the red Dzao minority. After picnic lunch, we keep on hiking to Ban Ho, the village lies within a beautiful valley, home to the Tay minority people who have their traditional house on stilts and we will spend the night here.

ACC: Home-stay at the Tay local house

Evening: Free to discover Sapa town, dinner at the local restaurant. Stay overnight in the hotel in Sapa.

ACC: Highlight Service: Sapa U Hotel Superior room

After breakfast you will be picked up again by local guide and driver to get to Sapa and then depart Sapa for a 3 hour drive to one of the most colorful markets of the region. We will drive to Bac Ha market - SUNDAY ONLY (approximately 2 hours). Arriving at Bac Ha, we visit the big market and the colorful ethnic people of the Flower H'mong, Phu La and Dao Tuyen minorities, who gather here to buy and sell their handicraft products. After spending the morning exploring the market our lunch will be served at a local restaurant. After lunch we drive downhill and begin a short walk to Ban Pho Village of Flower H'mong. Here we will visit a traditional house.After the market tour, you will continue to travel by road to get to Lao Cai. Have dinner in a local restaurant in Lao Cai and board on the night train to get back to Hanoi. Finish the trip.

Acc: King Express Deluxe train with the 4 soft-berth cabin.

05.30 am: Pick up at train station in Hanoi, get to Hanoi hotel for breakfast and later depart for Ninh Binh Tour towards to the South of Hanoi, it takes about 2,5 hours to get there(100 km)

9.30 am: 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).

12.00: Have lunch at Vietnamese restaurant with local food in Tam Coc.

PM: Arrive in Bich Dong Pagoda, Visit 2 layers of pagoda with Lower, Medium and Higher pagoda. 

14.00: Start the drive to return to the special 5* resort: Emaralda Resort. Check in the hotel and have free time discovering the local area by bike. Dinner in the local restaurant.

ACC:  NINH BINH HOTEL: Emeralda Ninh Binh Resort 3 Superior rooms

Private driver picks up from your hotel in Ninh Binh, move to Halong Bay (3.5 hour drive). Follow the cruise itinerary. All services included.

ACC: Highlight Service: Halong Amira Cruise -  Private charter.

Private driver & guide gets you back to Hanoi and check in the hotel in Hanoi.

6.00 PM: Start to visit the city Old Quarter and a have the invited PRIVATE 

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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 food tour, Stay overnight in Hanoi hotel.

ACC:  Highlight Service: Hanoi Golden Cyclo Hotel Standard room (4*)

ACC:  Highlight Service: Hanoi Golden Cyclo Hotel Standard room (4*)

AM: Free on your own travel arrangement. Breakfast at the hotel. Private transfer to the airport. End of services!