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Private English speaking guide in Hanoi food tour English speaking guide in Ninh Binh , Hoa Lu - Tam Coc, Sapa , Halong Bay

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This is Group Tour for customers to join Group Boat trips as mentioned in the itinerary All entrance and sightseeing fees All taxes & services charge Not included

Others

Accommodation in TWN/ DBL sharing accommodation at Hanoi hotel, except overnight on train All in-tour stationed local English speaking guide. Overnight train ticket Hanoi - Lao Cai (4 soft berth sharing cabin with air conditon), sleeping bus Sapa - Hanoi and homestay (if any) Entrance fees for Vietnam attractions, as per itinerary Meals as indicated in the program

Transport

All landed transfers within the tour by air-conditioned vehicle, including pick-up on arrival.

Meals

7 breakfasts, 8 lunches, 6 dinners Re-fuel with our hearty breakfasts, luscious lunches and delicious dinners, plus we’ll also give you the opportunity to sample some of the best eats in the East.

Accommodation

Hanoi: Angle Palace Hotel or La Suite Hotel & Spa Mai Chau: Homestay in Mai Chau Sapa: Sapa Vista Hotel Halong Bay: Aclass Cruise or Similar cruise

Not included:

Flights

Flights before and after the tour are not included in the tour price. You can organize your flights separately at any point.

Insurance

Travel insurance is not covered in the tour price. You can organize travel insurance with your preferred insurance company.

Others

Meals and services other than those noted in the itinerary Visa stamping fee Laundry, telephone calls, and personal expenditures Gratuities for guides, drivers, porters, boat crew, and personal, non-itinerary services

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Day 1 Day 1: Hanoi Arrival - Hanoi Walking Food Tour ( Lunch Or Dinner Included )
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 1: Hanoi Arrival - Hanoi Walking Food Tour ( Lunch Or Dinner Included )

Arrive in Hanoi. Greeted by your driver at the airport. Transfer to your hotel in the city centre for check-in and free at leisure.

Distance: Hanoi Old Quarter center: 40km (~ 45 minute drive)

Old Quarter Street Food Walking Tour

Your expert English-speaking local guide will give you an insight into the intricacies and traditions of Vietnamese food culture including details on ingredients and historical backgrounds of popular northern dishes. We eat as we go, trying seasonal fruits and sampling a tasty French-inspired snack from a street cart.

Walking through the maze of bustling streets that make up Hanoi’s Old Quarter, we tempt our tastebuds with the famed Hanoi dish Banh Cuon at a local eatery. Watch in awe as the skilled chefs demonstrate for you how this tasty dish is put together. Continuing into the atmospheric heart of the Old Quarter, we wander past street stalls and quiet residential lanes where you can observe local life that has changed little since Hanoi was founded over 1000 years ago.

Our next two snack stops are at outdoor barbeque stalls. We sit down with the Hanoi locals and sample various meat, vegetable and bread specialties that are flame grilled over hot coals for extra flavour. It’s then time for dessert as we venture down a small alley to join in the local tradition of feasting on fresh fruit served in a cup and smothered with crushed iced and condensed milk – this speciality is one not to be missed!

Your local guide will then take you to one of Hanoi’s best kept secrets, a hidden street food restaurant to taste top ten street foods in Hanoi is Banh My Hanoi, Vietnamese Rice Wine and famous Egg Coffee. This hard-to-find café is one of the few left in the narrow street inside the old quarter of Hanoi. Or, if coffee is not your style, a cold beer awaits!. At the end of the trip you are free to continue exploring the area or your guide will assist you back to your hotel.

Meals: Dinner or Lunch

Accommodation: Hotel in Hanoi
Day 2 Day 2: Hanoi – Ninh Binh – Hoa Lu- Tam Coc & Mua Cave( Breakfast, Lunch Included )
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 2: Hanoi – Ninh Binh – Hoa Lu- Tam Coc & Mua Cave( Breakfast, Lunch Included )

Start your tour early with pick-up at your hotel in Ha Noi Old Quarter at around 7:40 AM, and depart for Tam Coc. At around 9:30 AM, arrive at Tam Coc and take the sampan go along the Ngo Dong river to visit Tam Coc’s three caves. Head back to Tam Coc wharf, take your bicycle and cycle around traditional villages and Tam Coc town.

At midday, sit down for a buffet lunch with Vietnamese cuisine at a local restaurant. After lunch, hop back into the luxury van to visit Hoa Lu, an ancient capital of Vietnam. Visit Dinh king Temple and Le king Temple from the 10th century, and head about the heroic histories of the two Kings during the Chinese Wars.Visit Mua cave, which attracts visitors with its many interesting stories. Climb 500 stone steps to see all the way to Tam Coc, enjoy a stunning panoramic view of the countryside and Ngo Dong river. At around 4:00 PM, return Ha Noi, arriving between 6:30 PM and 7:00 PM.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Accommodation: Hotel in Hanoi
Day 3 Day 3: Hanoi – Mai Chau - Road Transfer ( Breakfast, Lunch Included )
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 3: Hanoi – Mai Chau - Road Transfer ( Breakfast, Lunch Included )

08h00 - 8h30 : pickup at your hotel and head to Mai Chau by van with a short break along the way.

Mid day, arrive in Mai Chau, enjoy welcome drink. Then enjoy traditional lunch in village (vegetarian available).

In the afternoon, bicycle ride with your tour guide, see farmers working in fields, locals weaving scarves and visit surrounding peaceful villages. Then you will have free time for bicycling, walking, shopping

Late afternoon, return to the accommodation.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Accommodation: Communal stilt house or Valley View Bungalow
Day 4 Day 4: Mai Chau – Hanoi – Night Train To Lao Cai ( Breakfast, Lunch Included )
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 4: Mai Chau – Hanoi – Night Train To Lao Cai ( Breakfast, Lunch Included )

After breakfast, go with local tour guide to visit more remote rural villages Na Meo and Na Mo villages to understand more about their culture and customs. Mid day, back to the home stay for lunch and check-out. Free time for shopping and relaxing.

15:00 – 15:30 Say goodbye to the family to get on the bus to drive back to Hanoi (3.5 ~ 4 hours drive). Arrive in Hanoi, drop you off at your hotel.

Free time till picked up at hotel for transferring to train station for night train to Lao Cai.

Meet at your hotel in Hanoi at around 20:00 hrs and transfer to Hanoi train station. Overnight train trip to Lao Cai in shared sleeping compartments (sharing with other passengers in 2 lower & 2 upper berths per compartment). Train departs at approximately 21:15 hrs.

Notes:

- Our tour guide will not accompany during the train trip

- Train schedule is subject to change.

- Private compartments on request at surcharge.

- Train journeys are part of a great local experience. Cabins are shared with other local passengers (unless private cabin is requested and all berths paid for - with supplement). Restrooms at either end of the carriages complete the local experience.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Accommodation: Overnight on train
Day 5 Day 5: Sapa - Y Linh Ho - Lao Chai - Ta Van ( Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner Included)
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 5: Sapa - Y Linh Ho - Lao Chai - Ta Van ( Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner Included)

Picked up at Lao Cai Station upon your early arrival for over an hour drive uphill in a shared mini van to Sapa. After freshen up and Breakfast in a local restaurant you will enjoy a free walk around this charming town, paying visit to Sapa market and the old cathedral where you can meet a lot of local ethnic minority peoples such as Black H’mong and Red Zao wearing their traditional colorful dresses selling their farming and gathering products and handicrafts for souvenir. Back to our Sapa office at about 10.30 and begin your exploration trip to Muong Hoa valley. You will follow the main road heading south for about an hour before turning right to a foot path down hill to Muong Hoa Valley. This part offers spectacular scenery of the highest part of Hoang Lien Son mountain range and in a nice day, Fansipan Peak can be seen. Crossing the river by a suspension bridge you will challenge your feet uphill to Y Linh Ho village. Here you will pay visiting to some H’mong families, watching them doing their daily works. After picnic Lunch, the trail continues up and down hill for about 2 hours as you reach to Lao Chai, a large village of the H’mong and then following the river bank to Ta Van of the Zay people. Paying visiting to local homes, village schools… you will enjoy much your cultural discovery of local ethnic peoples as well as breathtaking scenery of the Muong Hoa Valley. Settle down in Ta Van village for an overnight home stay.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation: Homestay in Ta Van Village
Day 6 Day 8: Ta Van - Giang Ta Chai - Sapa - Overnight Train To Hanoi ( Breakfast,Lunch)Dinner Included))
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 8: Ta Van - Giang Ta Chai - Sapa - Overnight Train To Hanoi ( Breakfast,Lunch)Dinner Included))

Leaving Ta Van village after Breakfast, you will take the trail uphill, passing fascinating terraced rice field and some small hamlets of the H’mong before getting through a bamboo forest to a waterfall, enjoy a break for magnificent scenery and then continue walking for half an hour to Giang Ta Chai village of the Red Zao peoples which sits on the top of a hill and looks down Muong Hoa river. After spending time visiting the village, making friend with the Zao and experiencing the hospitality you will cross the river by another suspension bridge and then uphill again to Hau Thao village where you will pay visiting to a local handicraft center where H’mong and Zao women gather for exchanging experience and skill of making handicrafts. A late Lunch will be prepare here nearby this center and then you have time relaxing as well as getting acquaintance with local school boys, girls and their teachers as well.

Later a short drive will take you back to Sapa Town

15:00 - 15:30 Driver will pick you up & transfer 5 hours to Hanoi

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Accommodation: Hotels in Hanoi
Day 7 Day 7: Excursion To Halong Bay And Stay Overnight On Board.(Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner Included)
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 7: Excursion To Halong Bay And Stay Overnight On Board.(Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner Included)

7.45 -8.00: Pick you up from your hotel, departure to Halong Bay.Arrive at Tuan Chau .Transfer by tender to Aclass Opera Cruise , enjoy welcome drink.Visit Ha Long Bay and check in cabins.Have lunch – Vietnamese Set Menu. Dragon Heart Cruise will take you to cruise through the most beautiful place of the bay with the famous islets Visit Surprising Cave.Enjoy kayaking and swimming on Titop Beach or relaxing on Cruise . Enjoy the cooking class on sundeck.Dinner – enjoy Vietnamese food. Evening activities: sing karaoke or join squid fishing with our crew

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation: Cruise in Halong Bay

Activities: Leave the city behind, drive through fascinating countryside to the dock where this Halong Bay adventure truly starts. Climb aboard a traditional junk boat – with its beautiful woodwork and beaming crew – and venture out into emerald waters of the bay.
Day 8 Day 8: Halong Bay – Hanoi ( Breakfast, Lunch Included)
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Day 8: Halong Bay – Hanoi ( Breakfast, Lunch Included)

At 6:30 AM, early risers can enjoy a Tai Chi Le session on the sundeck. Take in the morning view of the bay’s landscape with a cup of tea or coffee, and breakfast. At around 8:00 AM, transfer to Sung Sot Cave. Head back to the cruise to check out of your room and settle bills at reception. Have lunch, and head back to the harbor, arriving at 11:30 AM. At around 4:30 PM, arrive in Hanoi to complete your trip

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8-Days Explore The North Vietnam With Wonderful Scenery

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Itinerary of your trip 8-Days Explore The North Vietnam With Wonderful Scenery

Day 1: Hanoi Arrival - Hanoi Walking Food Tour ( Lunch Or Dinner Included )

Day 2: Hanoi – Ninh Binh – Hoa Lu- Tam Coc & Mua Cave( Breakfast, Lunch Included )

Day 3: Hanoi – Mai Chau - Road Transfer ( Breakfast, Lunch Included )

Day 4: Mai Chau – Hanoi – Night Train To Lao Cai ( Breakfast, Lunch Included )

Day 5: Sapa - Y Linh Ho - Lao Chai - Ta Van ( Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner Included)

Day 8: Ta Van - Giang Ta Chai - Sapa - Overnight Train To Hanoi ( Breakfast,Lunch)Dinner Included))

Day 7: Excursion To Halong Bay And Stay Overnight On Board.(Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner Included)

Day 8: Halong Bay – Hanoi ( Breakfast, Lunch Included)

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