Northern Splendor

Upon the arrival, you are met at the Noi Bai airport and transferred to the hotel by our driver (early check in is included). Relaxing at hotel!

• 12h45: Our Tour guide and our bus pick up at your hotel and go to the restaurant.
• 14h00 – 14h15: Visit Temple of Literature – the first university of Vietnam. The Temple of Literature (Van Mieu Quoc Tu Giam) is one of the most attractive tourist spots in Northern Vietnam. The Temple of Literature was founded in 1070.
• 15h15: Keep going to visit Hoa Lo Prison. The prison was built by the French, from 1886 to 1901. When Vietnam was still a part of French Indochina. The French called the prison Maison Centrale. The prison was called “A Hell on Earth” and now the prison is like a war museum for those who want to understand more about the war against France of Vietnamese people.
• 16h30: Our bus take you back to the Hotel and check-in. Overnight at the hotel in Hanoi.

Inclusion:

• Accommodation: Hotel in Hanoi with early check in
• Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
• Tour guide: English speaking guide
• Transfer: Private airport transfer/ Group car for tour

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• 12h00 – 12h30: Get picked up at your hotel by your tour guide
• 13h30: Make a quick visit to Chuong village, which has been well-known for the craft of conical hat for over 300 years. We are going to meet a local artisan, quick observe how conical hats are being made.
• 14h00: We depart for the Quang Phu Cau Incense village, which has been producing incense for more than 100 years. We will take a walk to the center of the village, see how people are making incense at family scale.
• 14h20: We are going to stop at a family who specializes in dyeing the incense stick, visit their drying yard and take some cool photos of the incense bundles.
• 15h20: Say goodbye to the incense-dyeing family, we will be having a factory tour at the biggest incense factory in the town. You will have a chance to see how incense is made from scratch by visiting every production section of the factory, as well as learn more about life of manual worker in the countryside. It is also a chance for you to shop some incense for souvenir at the place it is produced.
• 16h00: Time to go back to the city center. First place to be dropped off will be the Hanoi Train Street. If you do not want to be dropped off there, please stay inside the bus.
• 17h00 – 17h30: Get drop off at your hotel. End of your services.

Inclusion:

• Accommodation: Hotel in Hanoi
• Meals: Breakfast
• English speaking guide for tour
• Transfer: Group car

• 7h30 – 7h45: Our tour guide will pick you up from your hotel. We take you to Ninh Binh province which is far from Hanoi city about 120km.
• 9h30 : Have a short break for 20 minutes to relax.
• 10h30: The first destination in this trip is visit Hoa Lu ancient capital. This is the first capital of Vietnam. Coming to visit Hoa Lu, you will learn about why the capital was moved to Hanoi nowadays. You are impressed on an outstanding architecture when entering temples of King Dinh and King Le, the first and second emperors of ancient Vietnam, built in the 17 century. Try to feel ancient atmospheres in Hoa Lu ancient capital.
• 11h45: Have buffet lunch in the restaurant with a lot of local foods goat meat, fried rice… Vegetarian food is always available in the buffet lunch.
• 13h00: Visit Trang An which was recognized by UNESCO as The world Heritage Site in 2014. Trang An has the wonderful tunnel cave system so that Kong’s Movie Group chose this place for New Version of Kong in 2016 – “ Skull Island “. Boat trip to visit Trang An to see the amazing beauty of this landscape with many caves such as: Sang Cave (Light Cave), Toi Cave (Dark Cave), Nau Ruou Cave (Cooking Wine Cave), green river and natural view.
• 15h30: Get on the bus to go to Mua Cave (Dancing Cave). Walk up almost 500 steps, you can reach to the top of Lying Dragon Mountain, have an amazing panoramic view of Tam Coc from here.
• 16h30 – 17h00: Get on the Bus to return to Hanoi.
• 19h30: Arrive to Hanoi and get drop off at the Hotel. Overnight in Hanoi.

Inclusions:

• Accommodation: Hotel in Hanoi
• Meals: Breakfast, lunch
• Tour gudie: English speaking guide for tour
• Transfer: Group car

• 7h45 – 08h30: You will be picked up from your hotel. Then we will head to Ha Long Bay. You may enjoy the landscape of the Red River Delta along the way.
• 11h30: Upon arriving in our lobby in Tuan Chau Marina, you may take a short stretch while our staff arranges all registration with the local government.
• 12h00 – 12h30: The cruise captain and staff will welcome you onboard after a short tender transfer. While enjoying a refreshing welcome drink, a short cruise briefing and safety instructions will be given.
• 12h30 – 13h00: The cruise voyages to Ha Long Bay – one of the New Seven Nature Wonders of the World. Lunch is served on board while the cruise passes via amazing limestone karst formations that rise up out of the sea in an impressive manner.
• 14h00 – 14h30: You will leave the cruise to explore Sung Sot Cave (also known as Surprise/ Amazing Cave), one of the biggest and most beautiful caves in Ha Long Bay.
• 15h00: Returning to cruise, the trip will continue to Ti Top Island. Here, you can watch the magnificent view over either the Gulf of Tonkin or swim in the emerald green and cool water.
• 17h00: After a long day, this is the ideal time to enjoy energizing drinks and snacks by joining ‘Happy Hour’ or Cooking Class on the sundeck
• 19h30: Sumptuous dinner is served. Enjoy delicious local food prepared and served for you by our wonderful onboard catering staff.
• 20h30: After dinner, various activities including karaoke, and squid fishing are organized or you can just laze around with exhilarating drinks from our bar. The rest of the day is spent at your leisure. Overnight on cruise.

Inclusion:

• Accommodation: on cruise
• Meals: Breakfast, lunch, dinner
• English speaking guide on boat
• Transfer: Limousine shuttle bus

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• 6h15 – 7h00: Breakfast is served. It can be a great idea to enjoy the meal with the magnificent view of the sunrise in Ha Long Bay.
• 8h00 – 9h30: The cruise gets closer to the center of the Natural Preservation Area. Join our guide on a short trip to Luon Cave. This magic work of nature shows you the formation of karst mountains. You can discover this time masterpiece by kayaking on your own. If you are lucky, you can catch great photos with mischievous monkeys jigging up and down around the cliffs.
• 9h30: Our staffs on Cruise welcomes you back on board and it is time for checking out.
• 10h00: Whilst cruising back, delightful lunch will be served.
• 11h35: We return to the quayside in the south of the bay, where our visitors disembark in Tuan Chau Marina. And leave for Ha Noi on our shuttle. Transfer to the airport to take flight back home. Trip ends.

Inclusion:

• Accommodation: No
• Meals: Breakfast, brunch
• Tour guide: English speaking guide on boat
• Transfer: Limousine shuttle bus/ Private airport transfer

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