Upon arrival at the Noi Bai airport in Hanoi and after clearing immigration and customs, meet with your driver with a welcome signboard marked “The Time Journeys’s LOGO & your name. Then your tour guide will transfer to your hotel. Check in hotel. Free time.
Meals: No
Accommodation: Hotel in Hanoi
Breakfast at your hotel. The guide will pick you up and transfer you to visit the capital of Vietnam, a city that celebrated 1.000 years in 2010 has countless fascinating cultural and historic sites and our days’ tour will visit the highlights. Visit the beautiful Temple of Literature, West Lake’s Tran Quoc temple and Quan Thanh pagoda as well as the fascinating Ethnology Museum. Enjoy lunch at local restaurant.
Follow your guide, Hoa Lo Hoa Lo Prison, Then you will weave through the bustling Old Quarter’s 36 streets. All named for the products historically sold here. After visiting Hoan Kiem Lake and Ngoc Son Temple.
Meals: Breakfast/ Lunch
Accommodation: Hotel in Hanoi
Breakfast at your hotel. The guide pick you up and transfer you to Ninh Binh. Arrive in Ninh Binh, take a boat for visiting Trang An tourist attraction, take boat trip to visit cave complex: Sang Cave, Toi Cave, Ba Giot Cave, Nau Ruou in mystery and wildness, see scenery of mountain and rivers. Trang An is considered as Ha Long on the land. After lunch, transfer for visiting visit Hoa Lu – the Ancient Royal capital of Viet Nam. We will visit Dinh king temple and Le king temple in the 10th century, finding out the heroic histories of this two Kings in Chinese Wars. Then transfer you back to Hanoi. Then take a daily room at small hotel for shower and relaxing. After dinner, 21:00 The guide pick you up and transfer to Ha Noi Railway Station and catch the night train to Lao Cai (overnight on the train, the cabin with 4 berths, soft sleeper and air-conditioning)., Arrive Lao Cai 6:00am next morning
Meals: Breakfast/ Lunch
Accommodation: On train Express to Sapa (Sharing cabin – 4 soft sleeper/ 1 cabin)
The train arrives at around 6:00 am. Look for the “TTJ’s Logo & Your Name” sign when you exit the train station, as our guide will pick you up there and transfer to the former hill station of Sapa. In the terraced hills and mountains of this area, the expansive green landscape is enlivened by the colors of its hill tribe population – flashes of shining silver jewelry from the necks and wrists of indigo-clad H’mong and the scarlet hues of the turbans worn by the Red Dao can be seen. It is here you will find hands stained with color from fabric dyes and shades of blue, red and green intricately embroidered and stitched into jackets, waistcoats, pants, skirts, caps, purses and leggings.
After having breakfast at local restaurant, Visit Fansipan Mountain by the cable car. As you know the cable car in Sapa is the world’s longest and highest cable car, running up from sleepy Sapa Town in Lao Cai Province to the peak of 3,143-meter Fansipan Mountain, known as Indochina’s rooftop. Enjoy the view from the highest point of this incredible mountain. The lush green and subtropical vegetation makes this mountain really very beautiful. Take some pictures for unforgettable experience from the top. After taking scenery then get cable car back to Sapa.
Have lunch at local restaurant. Visit Silver Waterfall and Sapa Heaven Gate.Then transfer to hotel. Check in hotel and free time for relaxing or visiting local market.
Meals: Breakfast/ Lunch
Accommodation: Hotel in Sapa
Breakfast at your hotel. The guide pick you up Start trekking to Cat Cat Village (about 45 minutes walk from Sapa), this is the village of Back H’mong hill tribe. The village is on the slope of the hill and easy walking, rice and corn are grown here.
Visiting Cat Cat Village, you will have a chance to visit a big waterfall on the stream and the old Hydro Electric Power Station built by French people. That is the image of young women sitting by looms with colorful pieces of brocade decorated with designs of flowers and birds. When these pieces of brocade are finished, they are dyed and embroidered with beautiful designs. A note worthy is that H’Mong women use indigo plants and leaves to dye these brocade fabrics. And then they roll around and smoooth section of wood covered with wax on fabrics to polish them, making their colors durable.
Then back to hotel. 12:00 check out hotel. The guide pick you and bring you to have lunch. After lunch, you take a rest.
14:00: Limousine pick you up (just driver without guide) and transfer you back to Hanoi. On the way back, the driver stop over for relaxing on middle way. Arrive in Hanoi, drop you off at your hotel. Free time.
Meals: Breakfast/ Lunch
Accommodation: Hotel in Hanoi
Breakfast at your hotel.
08:15 am: Private car with driver pick you up and transfer you to Halong Bay. On the way to Halong Bay, the bus will stop over for 15minutes. Arrive at Tuan Chau island – Take break and welcome drink at Halong Cruise Lounge. Transfer to Halong Cruise
12:00 The crew members of Cruise will welcome you .12:30 : You will be taken aboard our support vessel and travel from the wharf via the bay to board our luxurious craft. Itinerary briefing is announced during this time.
13.00: Welcome fresh drinks, wet towels and a special lunch of fresh food and anassortment of appetizing delicacies will be served. You will be enchanted when decadently dining on our luxury junk. Life just doesn’t get better than this! We then set sail for Lan Ha Bay – A member of the World’s Most Beautiful Bays. Enjoy the delicious luncheon of fresh seafood and an assortment of appetizing delicacies while cruising along Lan Ha bay with the breathtaking scenery.
15:30 Visiting Tra Bau area where has known as an area famous for its unspoiled, poetic natural beauty and attractive seascape of Lan Ha Bay. This is the best time for kayaking to discover the truest beauty of the limestone islands. Immerse yourself in the emerald green water of the bay or enjoy the Jacuzzi pool on the Cruises.
17:30 – 18:30 Joining us for Cooking demonstration to learn how to make one of the most famous Vietnamese cuisines, the spring rolls. Or reach the top deck of cruise where the guests can admire the magnificent sunset over the Gulf of Tonkin. Enjoy a Happy Hour time – BUY ONE GET ONE FREE at the bar. It is an ideal time for photography enthusiasts to capture the greatest moment of sunset over Lan Ha Bay.
19.30 Enjoy delicious local food prepared and served by our skillful chef. This is a delightful meal in an intimate romantic setting.
21:00 – 22.00 Relax and sip the exotic cocktails and drinks at the sky bar (with surcharge). Indulge yourself with spa service (optional) or simply relax on the top deck just under the cover of a brightly illuminated sky. Or try to get your luck at the squid fishing on the main deck.
Meals: Breakfast/ Lunch/ Dinner
Accommodation: Cruise in Halong Bay
6:00 Begin the day full of energy with the Tai Chi session and enjoy the sun just rising up beyond the horizon.
6:45 – 7:15 Breakfast is served while cruising back to Gia Luan jetty. (Breakfast time maybe adjust and follow the real itinerary)
7:30 – 9:00 You will join the tour of Cat Ba World Biosphere by transshipment. It takes 30 minutes to transfer from Gia Luan to Trung Trang – one of the most impressive caves in Cat Ba island, Vietnam. The limestone cave has thousands of talactites in various shapes, offering geological values with a typical cave ecosystem.
9:30 Return to the main boat from the cave and the guests will do the cabin check out. Luggage is placed outside of the cabin. Lunch is served at the restaurant. Settle the bar bill by the desk at the restaurant (if any)
10:30 – 11:00 Disembark the Cruises and transferred back to Tuan Chau Marina. Relax and wait for the luggage.
11:30 – 12:00 The guests are ready at Tuan Chau Marina.
Note: The itinerary is subject to change without notice, in accordance with the weather and other
operating conditions.
Then van pick you up and transfer you back to Hanoi. Arrive in Hanoi, Then transfer you to Noi Bai airport for your departure flight. Your journey with The Time Journeys is now complete…
Meals: Breakfast, Brunch
Accommodation: Time check out is 12:00
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*** HALONG BAY
*** NINH BINH
Vietnam is a dynamic country in Southeast Asia where traditions are thousands of years. Vietnam Tours offer you the vast knowledge and expertise in Vietnam. From the untamed mountain terrain in the north to the vast emerald rice fields in the south. Include in your tours a visit to many UNESCO World Heritage sites such as incredible Halong Bay on cruise, Trang An, Phong Nha & Ke Bang National Park, Hue, and Hoi An and uncover the mysteries of the Mekong Delta in the South. Or experience the rice terraces in Sapa or Mai Chau. Soak up the sun and exploring below the sea in Nha Trang and Phu Quoc island. Vietnam is filled with a rare beauty.
Everything you need to know about Vietnam!
• Hotel accommodation double room with daily breakfast.
• Meals as mentioned in the itinerary (B = Breakfast, L = Lunch, D = Dinner, 01 brunch).
• Tours and transfers with air-conditioned vehicles.
• Boat trip as itinerary
• English speaking local guide
• All entrance fees as indicated in itinerary.
• Cruise in Halong Bay
• Return limousine bus Hanoi – Halong Bay – Hanoi
• Train express Hanoi – Sapa (Private cabin – 4 berths/ 1 cabin)
• Cold water (02 bottles/ 1pax/ 1 day)
• E-visa
• Other meal, drink, Tip to guide and driver, personal expenses
• Supplement for French, Spanish, Italian and German speaking guide
• Surcharged Christmas & New Year (Lunar New Year)
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