General Information

Tour Route:  Hanoi – Trang An – Bai Dinh Pagoda – Halong Bay

Duration:  4 Days 3 Nights
Date: No fixed departure dates. You may go whenever you wish
Start/ End: Hanoi
Tour Customizable: Absolutely! (Tell you your specific requirements in the inquiry form)

 Day 1: Welcome to Ha Noi

Arrive at Noi Bai airport. Picking up and transfer to the city center. Overnight at in Ha Noi.

 Day 2: A full day for Ha Noi city (Meals: Breakfast, lunch)

8.00am – 8.30am, we will pick you up at your hotel, we take you to Tran Quoc pagoda and then Ho Chi Minh complex with Ho Chi Minh mausoleum, his simple stilt house where he lived and worked and the museum dedicated to his memory.

A short drive to The Temple of Literature – the first university in Vietnam dating back to the 11^th century to admire the beautiful construction and learn about Royal court and Vietnamese talents.

Have lunch in the local restaurant.

Short time to relax before driving ahead to Vietnam Museum of Ethnology where you can get over view information about ethnic groups overview information about ethnic groups over Vietnam through the well organized display both in indoor and outdoor exhibition.

Back to down town for refreshment by Hoan Kiem Lake with Ngoc Son temple.

The tour ends at your hotel around 16.00. Overnight at in Ha Noi.

 Day 3: Ha Noi – Trang An – Bai Dinh Pagoda (Meals: Breakfast, lunch)

8:00 AM – 8:30 AM: pick you up at your hotel in the Old Quarter and depart for Ninh Binh province.

10:30 AM – 12:00 PM: Arrive in Buddha Prayer place in Bai Dinh Pagoda, the biggest pagoda in Vietnam with  500 La Han statues, biggest bronze Buddha statue in Vietnam with 10 meters in height, 100 tons in weight.

12:30: Have lunch in local restaurant with some local special dishes such as Goat meat with elderberry, pork.

14:30: Depart to visit 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.

16:00: Bus returns to Ha Noi

18:00: Drop you off at your hotel in the Old Quarter. Overnight at in Ha Noi.

 Day 4: Ha Noi – Ha Long Bay (Meals: Breakfast, lunch)

We come to pick you up at your hotel in the Old Quarter between 7:45am – 8:15am, then after for 3.5 hours bus riding through the country side of the Red River Delta to Ha Long City. Water buffaloes, paddy fields (rice transplanting time: February and June) and daily Vietnamese farmer life are on both sides of the way.

Arrive in Halong City around noon, we board a traditional wooden junk and start the cruising trip to the centre of the bay. Fresh seafood lunch (vegetable menu available) is served while the boat is gliding out. Get ready for exotic photos and absorbing the most magnificent natural splendors, limestone bedrocks and sheer cliffs of tiny islands highlighted with fanciful names: Fighting Cocks (symbol of Halong Bay), Duck, Swan, Incense Burner, and Stone Dogs.

Keep cruising to the most beautiful cave named Thien Cung (Heaven Palace Grotto) and explore huge chambers adorned with stalactites and stalagmites of all kinds. Continue to enjoy this relaxing cruise on the way back to Ha Long harbor, our waiting vehicle transfers you back to Hanoi. Trip ends at your hotel around 20h00. Overnight at in Ha Noi.

 Day 5: Ha Noi and departure (Meal: Breakfast)

Leisure until transfer to Noi Bai airport. End service.

Private tour – Price is in USD per person

Tour price includes:

·         Air conditioned transport for pick up, transfer & sightseeing as per program.

·         English speaking tour guide for sightseeing

·         Boat trip and sampan in Trang An

·         Sightseeing by cruise in Ha Long Bay

·         All entrance fees

·         Daily breakfast at hotel

·         Daily lunch with local cuisine at restaurant

·         Nice and clean accommodation in Ha Noi base two people share a room

Tour price excludes:

·         Visa for Vietnam

·         Travel insurance

·         Personal expenses

·         Option, additional, person activates during free time.

·         Drinks & other meals not mentioned in the program

·         Excess luggage charges.