Day 1: Noi Bai Airport – Ha Noi (L, D)

Our private car pick you up from Noi Bai airport according your flight time table, then transfering you go to your hotel in Ha Noi. Check in your hotel. Free time to relax and visit Ha Noi. Sleep at your hotel in Ha Noi.

Day 2: Ha Noi – Hoa Lu – Tam Coc – Mua Cave (B, L). Sleep at the homestay in Ninh Binh

On this day, you will arrive Ha Noi early in the morning around 4h30 – 5h00 am. Check in your homestay. Free time to relax.

7h20: Breakfast is service at the homestay in Ha Noi.

7h40 – 07h50: The bus/ limousine bus will pick you up at your homestay in Hanoi city, transfer to Hoa Lu in Ninh Binh.

10h20 – 10h30: You will reach to Hoa Lu ancient capital of Vietnam. You will visit Dinh King temple and Le King temple in the 10th centery, finding out the heroic histories of this two kings in Chinese Wars.

11h50 – 12h00: Have a lunch with Vietnamese cuisine.

13h00 – 13h05: Get on the bus/ limousine bus continue going to visit Tam Coc wharf for taking the sampan go along the Ngo Dong river to visit Tam Coc (three different caves). 

15h00 – 15h05: Biking tour around the countryside in Ninh Binh.

15h30 – 15h35: Keep going to visit Mua cave. The place attracts visitors with its many interesting stories. Climb 500 stone steps, here you can see all the way to Tam Coc, enjoy a stunning panoramic view of the countryside and Ngo Dong river.

16h30 – 16h40: Get on our bus/ limousine bus back to your homestay/ bungalow. Free time to visit Tam Coc town or Ninh Binh city. Sleep at your homestay/bungalow in Tam Coc or Ninh Binh.

Day 3: Ninh Binh – Ha Long Bay – Lan Ha Bay (B, L,D)

6h30 – 7h00: Breakfast is service at the hotel, check out your hotel.

7h05 – 7h15: Our bus/limousine bus pick you up at your hotel in Ninh Binh departure to Halong Bay – Tuan Chau Marina for 3.5 hours.

We arrive in Hai Duong province, and have 20 minute short break.

11h50 – 12h00: Arriving Tuan Chau Marina, have check-in procedures at waiting lounge.

12h15: Transfer to Big cruise by a tender boat. Welcome aboard, we'll have some welcome drinks and gather at the restaurant for a cruise briefing and some safety instructions.

13h00: Passengers will be taking lunch while we cruise and visit Ha Long Bay – Lan Ha Bay - one of the New Seven Wonders of Nature.

15h00: We will head to to Dark Cave and Bright Cave, the ideal place for you to feel close up from inside Ha Long Bay by bamboo boat or kayak.

17h00: The Cruises enter an open, sparsely populated area at Tra Bau - Lan Ha Bay. Please enjoy a nice swim in the green emerald water here.

18h00: Being back onboard you may join a cooking demonstration, enjoy the Happy Hour (buy 1 get 1) at the bar while watching the view of the bay at sunset

Option: Massage service available. Please book with our Cruise Manager directly.

19h15: Savor a deluxe dinner made with the freshest ingredients in a sophisticated space with elegant French neoclassical style and traditional oriental touches.

21h00: It's time to admire the beauty of the night on the bay, our bar on sundeck and in the restaurant welcome you. You may want to try your luck with squid fishing or watch a movie in the restaurant, we also have chess and cards for you.

23h00: Overnight on board.

Day 4: Halong Bay – Ha Noi – Sapa (B, L)

06h30: It is a perfect time to refresh and indulge yourself in the peaceful beauty of the bay with a tai chi session on the sundeck. If you want to hunt for dawn, get up from 5h30 to 6h00 depending on the season, and consult our sailors.

07h00: We will have breakfast at the restaurant while continuing the cruise.

07h45: Kayaking activities in the Ao Ech area are held to discover the hidden charm of Ha Long - Lan Ha Bay.

08h30: The Cruises welcomes you back on board and it is time for checking out.

10h00: Enjoy a delightful brunch at our restaurant while cruising back.

11h30 – 12h00: Disembark at Tuan Chau Marina.

12h00 - 12h10: Get on your tourist bus/ limousine bus leave Halong to Hanoi. 

14h30: You will have a short break on the half way.

15h00 – 15h30: Change to your private car go directly to Sapa. Dinner is service at the local restaurant.

21h00 – 21h30: Arrive your homestay or hotel in Sapa. Check in your homestay or hotel in Sapa. Free time to relax and visit Sapa. Sleep at your homestay in Sapa.

Day 5: Sapa – Trekking Lao Chai & Ta Van Villages – Luc Yen (B, L)

7h00 - 7h30: Breakfast is service at the homestay or hotel in Sapa. After having breakfast, check out your homestay or hotel and start your trekking on small trails going to Y Linh Ho village (with Black H’mong tribe), do trekking through lush terraced rice fields towards Lao Chai village to experience Black H’mong people’s daily life and traditional culture. You will have a lunch at the local restaurant. After having lunch, continue trekking through Lao Chai villlage to Ta Van village inhabited by Zay minorities. After trekking, you will get on your private car leave Sapa to Luc Yen. On the way you can admire the beautiful view of mountain view. 20h00 – 20h30: Arrive your hotel in Luc Yen. Check in your hotel. Free time to relax and visit Luc yen town. Sleep at your hotel in Luc Yen.

Day 6: Luc Yen – Ha Noi – Hoi An (B, L)

On this day, our tour guide will show you go to visit Luc Yen gem market is open at a beautiful corner of a lake in Yen The town, Luc Yen district. It is more interested in on Sunday. The market works in just several hours in every morning. Depending on reasons and weather, the market can take place sooner or later, but at about 6.30 am there are sellers in the market. They slowly arrange their stalls to be not complicated, but very simple. The market contains about over 20 stalls. According to the sellers, gems are gathered from the persons who have gone to the mountains … and if having time, craftsmen will arrange the gems to make pendants of rings, necklaces, earrings, etc… Gems are also used as materials for making a gem picture, which are sold in the unit of kilogram or gram. Each blue, red, purple, yellow, white, black gems have different sizes and shapes and is supervised and considered by the customers who are conversant with gems. The prices are announced depending on the type of gem which can be ten thousands, hundreds of thousand or a million, tens of millions dong. However, the succession of transaction is decided by the bargaining process. Besides gem traders and makers seeking materials, there are many people who have heard about the gem market then come to this to see and to buy some products as souvenirs.  After two to three hours, the market is closed. The owner of a gem stall in Luc Yen market said that every early morning, hundreds of local residents went to the forest, walking along the stream, picking up each gem. After a long time, the gem became rare so people had to go further to the caves to gather them. Nowadays, people find it hard to seek for gems in the cave; many of them must use machines to dig deeply on the mountains then wash the soil for gems. If people find original sapphire and ruby gems (which are big, transparent, right color, not cracked), they can sell them with the price of several hundred millions dong. However, they usually get the color gems including ruby, sapphire which have lower quality, being crushed and small, used for making pictures. To get the suitable color gems (especially black gems for drawing hair, blue ones for illustrating the color of water), they must wander in the mountains for a month. Since ancient times, Luc Yen was dubbed the "land of gems." The most valuable stones in Vietnam were exploited here. You can have a local breakfast at the local market during shopping at Luc Yen market. After visiting and shopping, get on your private car back to your hotel, get back your luggage, leave Luc yen to Noi Bai airport. Lunch is service at the restaurant.

18h00 – 18h30: Drop you off Noi Bai Airport for catching your flight to Da Nang.

21h10: You will arrive Da Nang Airport, my driver will pick you up, transfer you go to your homestay in Hoi An. Check in your homestay. Free time to relax and visit Hoi An. Sleep at your hotel in Hoi An.

Day 7: Hoi An Ancient Town (B, L)

7h30: Breakfast is service at your hotel. After having breakfast, free time to visit Hoi An ancient town: Japanese bridge, old house, Phuc Kien Assembly Hall...   Sleep at your homestay in Hoi An.

Day 8: Hoi An – Farm Trip at Tra Que Village – Hai Van Pass - Lang Co Beach – Lap An lagoon - Hue (B, L)

7h00: Breakfast is service at your hotel, check out your hotel

8h00: Our tour guide will greet you and provide your bicycle for your trip. Cycling through the paddle fields and shrimp farm. After that we will head to Tra Que vegetable village, you can relax and enjoy the peaceful countryside then stroll along the vegetable villages. As a special treat, you will be involved with digging, sowing, planting, harvesting the vegetables with hundreds of years rudimentary tools of the farmers. You will enjoy the E Water, a speciality of Tra Que vegetable village, you can feel the strong medicinal flavour from many kinds of vegetables. You could will be a famer with many interseting activities.

Finish your time in Tra Que vegetable village, you will ride your bicycle leisurely passing the rice fields, villages, to come to the art of making lanterns.

- You will visit craftsmen with skillful hands, showing you how to create the brightly colored lanterns. Expertly guided you could make yourself a lantern as a gift to your family.

- Finish your learning, have a lunch at the restaurant, then the tour guide will take you back to your hotel.

13h00 – 13h10: Drop you off your hotel. Get back your luggages, get on your car leave Hoi An to Hue. On the way, you will stop to visit Hai Van Pass, Lang Co beach and Lap An lagoon.

17h00 – 17h30: Drop you off your hotel in Hue. Check in your hotel. Free time to visit Hue city. Sleep at your hotel in Hue.

Day 9: Hue City – Ha Noi (B, L)

7h00: Breakfast is service at your hotel, check out your hotel

8h00: Our tour guide will come to pick you up at your hotel. We start to Hue City by a drgon boat trip along the Perfume river to visit the oldest and beautiful architecture Buddist pagoda with 400 years old, Thien Mu pagoda from 1601. It is not only a pagoda but also a UNESCO World heritage. There are many stories and myths from the pagoda from locals in Kim Long village. After that, we will take a private car to visit the citadel, royal city and Forbidden city. A complex around 100 monuments in 520 hectares of the Nguyen dynasty. It was the working and residence place of 13 Emperors, concubines, and eunuchs.

Following the tour program, keep walking to visit the Hue royal antique museum with many kinds of real, original and valuable royal staff of Emperors and royalties of  Nguyen dynasty.

At around 12.30, we will have a lunch with Vietnamese food at the local restaurant in Hue

In the afternoon: After having lunch, we will continue visiting the tomb of the second emperor of the Nguyen dynasty, emperor Minh Mang who had 600 concubines, 142 children, and 78 sons. Our experienced tour guide will tell you the wonderful beauty in the setting of his royal tomb as well as a scary secret. It is such a fabulous place for the Minh Mang emperor to sleep forever. Next, our private car will take you to visit the resting place of Khai Dinh Emperor, the most beautiful and expensive royal tomb in Vietnam as well as in the World. Totally different from other royal tombs in Hue, Khai Dinh Tomb is a mix of a lot of architectural lines. you will overwhelm because of its beauty and decorations.

Last place is the Incense making village. The place where you can learn how to make incense by hands with local people.

16h30 -  16h35: Drop you off your hotel, get back your luggage, leave Hue city to Phu Bai Airport for catching flight back to Noi Bai Airport in Ha Noi. When you arrive Noi Bai Airport, our driver and private car will pick you up, transfer you go to your hotel. Check in hotel. Free time to relax. Sleep at your hotel in Ha Noi.

Day 10: Ha Noi Free Time – Depparture (B)

On this day, after having breakfast, you will have free time to visit Hanoi, shopping at the local market to buy the gifts for your family and your friend, then getting on your private car go to the airport to catch your flight back home.

End The Tour!

Have a great trip with Asian Discovery Travel!