North Vietnam Itinerary 9 Days

Hanoi - Ninh Binh - Sapa - Halong Bay
Type of tour : Private Tour 2024
Duration: 9 Days/ 8 Nights
Departure 2024: On your request
Price from: 860 USD

Day 1: Hanoi arrival 

Day 2: Hanoi - Fabulous Food and Sights tour by Scooter ( Breakfast and lunch )

Day 3: Hanoi – Ninh Binh and Night Train to Sapa ( Breakfast and lunch )

Day 4: Sapa Sightseeing (Breakfast and lunch)

Day 5: Sapa - Cat Cat Village ( Breakfast and lunch )

Day 6: Sapa - Free Day ( Breakfast )

Day 7: Sapa - Hanoi by shuttle bus ( Breakfast and lunch )

Day 8: Hanoi - Halong Bay ( Breakfast and lunch and dinner )

Day 9: Halong Bay - Hanoi - Departure ( Breakfast and lunch )

Day 1: Hanoi arrival 

Our driver and tour guide will pick you up at the airport and transfer to hotel in Hanoi center.

Check in your hotel and then you are free to relax.

Day 2: Hanoi – Fabulous Food and Sights tour by Scooter ( Breakfast and lunch )

8:00 AM: Our female drivers and tour guide will pick you up at your hotel to start a tour to visit Hanoi city.

Firstly, you will go to a very famous coffee shop to enjoy Egg coffee that is founded in Hanoi, passed down through generations, is Café Giang (Giang Café).
Next, our drivers will take you to the Hanoi Opera House built in 1911 to take some photos together as a little memory of Hanoi.

After that we take you to local markets to see people selling everyday essentials.

Joining to Paloma Motorbike Tour, we will take you around the small alleys to visit the old houses and daily life of urban people that are very little known by tourists when visiting Hanoi.

Apart from the small alleys, we will take you through the most highlight places such as: Train StreetHo Chi Minh MausoleumHuu Tiep Lake (B52) where vestiges of war are left here.

A must-see place is the historic Long Bien bridge designed by Daydé & Pillé company (French company), the same one that also built the Effel tower in Paris. The bridge has witnessed two fierce resistance wars of the Vietnamese people. They are the war against the US and the French. Let take some more photos here for your memory. Tour ends at your hotel. 

Notes:

  • Please keep in mind that we do not go inside the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum on “Hanoi City sights and street food”tour. This attraction requires a lot of time to fully appreciate so we recommend that you visit them on your own so that we can make the most of time you have with us.
  • The above itinerary is subject to change, based on the day’s weather and traffic conditions.

Day 3: Hanoi – Ninh Binh and Night Train to Sapa ( Breakfast and lunch )

7:30 AM: Our guide and driver will meet you at your hotel start 110kms, your journey through verdant landscape of country side.

10:00 AM: Arriving Glimmering Bai Dinh pagoda complexes, the largest pagoda, not only in Vietnam but also in Southeast of Asia. Scenically set on the foot hill of Dinh Mountain surrounded by amazing views of the exquisite river valley below and dotted and the limestone karsts dotted around which will take your breath away.

12:00 PM: Enjoying the lunch at local restaurant with the great local cuisines.

13:30 PM: Leaving for the Trang An Grottoes, an out-standing natural beauty of majestic limestone massif at 20 square kilometer rise dramatically out from rice paddy fields. Deep into the linked chains of towering mountain are pristine places of mystical valleys, numerous fresh water ponds, and jungle.

15:30 PM: Visiting Mua Cave and start an amazing trek up to the top of Ngoa long mountain for watching the spectacular rice valley with specious view of the nature.

17:15 PM:  Returning to car and then come back to Hanoi for dinner before going to train station for night train to Sapa at 9:30 PM.

Day 4: Sapa Sightseeing (Breakfast and lunch)

6.00 AM: Our driver will pick you up at the train station and transfer you to Sapa.

9:00 AM: Our driver and tour guide will pick you up to visit the Lao Chai and Ta Van villages where you can see the daily life of the ethnic minorities – H’Mong and Dzay ethnic minorities.

1:00 PM: You will go back to Sa Pa town for lunch. 

Check in hotel and relax.

Day 5: Sapa – Cat Cat Village ( Breakfast and lunch )

8:30 AM: A walk down to the South-west of Sapa (around 4 km) to visit Cat Cat village of the Black H’mong. Relax at the food of the stunning waterfall and the vestige of a hydroelectric power station that was constructed by the French during the colonial time in Vietnam. 

Day 6: Sapa – Free Day ( Breakfast )

Today, we let you free to explore the beauty of Sapa you also can take the cable car to visit Fansipan Peak. (Optional)

Day 7: Sapa – Hanoi by shuttle bus ( Breakfast and lunch )

8:30 AM: Our car will pick you up at your hotel and transfer you to Hanoi. You will arrive in Hanoi about 1:00 PM. Check in hotel and relax.

Day 8: Hanoi – Halong Bay ( Breakfast and lunch and dinner )

 

8:30 AM:  Our shuttle bus will pick you up at your hotel and transfer to Halong Bay

12:15 PM:  Arrive at Halong, you are welcomed by our crew and boarding to check in and have lunch while cruising to see the beauty of Halong Bay and Lan Ha Bay.

15:30 PM:  You will join cruise’s activities as kayaking and swimming…

17:30 PM: Return to cruise.  Enjoy sunset party on boat and it is an ideal time for photography enthusiasts to capture the stunning moment of sunset at Lan Ha Bay.

19:00 PM: Enjoy a romantic dinner on cruise. 

17:30 PM: Return to Cruise. Enjoy sunset party on boat is an ideal time for photography enthusiasts to capture the stunning moment of sunset.
19:00 PM: Enjoy a romantic dinner on cruise.

Day 9: Halong Bay – Hanoi – Departure ( Breakfast and lunch )

6:30 AM -7:30 AM: Breakfast is served.

7:30 AM: You will visit Dark and Light cave area, a famous beautiful area of Lan Ha Bay with the pristine natural scenery, charming emerald sea. You will enjoy the beautiful scenery here on the bamboo boat (indigenous people rowing boat) to mingle with nature, get away from the hustle and bustle of urban life to feel the relaxed and most comfortable moments.

9:30AM: You return to the boat and check out cabin then having lunch.

12:00 PM: Disembark and move back the port and get on your car to Hanoi airport for your departrue fight.

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Private Tour Included: 

  • All private transfer
  • Entrance fees
  • Hotels: On request
  • Luxury Cruise in Halong Bay
  • Entrance fees
  • English speaking guide
  • Meals: Indicated in tour program

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  • Drinks 
  • Bank fees
  • Personal expense
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