HANOI – HALONG BAY – SAPA 7 DAYS 6 NIGHTS

DAY 1: ARRIVAL – AIRPORT TRANSFER

Welcome to Vietnam, a beautiful country in South East Asia. Meet up our representative at the airport. Then we take you to the hotel in the central. Check in hotel (Check in time: 14h00) and you can be free walking around or shopping. Stay overnight at the hotel.

-         SIC: No meals

-         SIC: Airport Transfer no guide

DAY 2: HA NOI – HALONG FULL DAY TOUR (B)

Have breakfast at the hotel. Then our tour guide and car will pick you up at your hotel and depart for Ha Long Bay. Arrive Ha Long Harbor, welcome aboard, and safety briefing. The cruise will take you on a 5 hours journey via 2 day-sleeper boat cruise route which renowned for its striking, passages uninhabited islets and outcrops have been given imaginative names by the locals, due to their perceived shapes, including Cock Fighting and Thumb, while enjoy Vietnamese mouth-watering lunch on boat.

Afternoon, we arrive Bo Hon archipelago, you will visit Surprising Cave to see a lot of stalagmites and stalactites with different shapes of sea lives, then go kayaking or bamboo boat in Luon Cave to discover the beautiful lagoon. Then we visit Titov Island with sandy beach adjacent to the towering limestone mountain with excellent backdrop of the Bay and climb up Titov Peak for a panoramic view of the bay.

We return the Cruise back toward the Harbor. There is a lot of time for sunbathing on the upper deck with music, enjoy great fun of group touring fellows among world iconic natural scenery. Transfer to the bus back to Hanoi, short break on the way. We are back to your hotel around 20h00-20h30. Tour ends.

-         Meals for SIC: Breakfast, Vietnam Lunch.

-         Kayak/Bamboo Boat is included.

DAY 3: HANOI – SAPA BY BUS (B)

Have breakfast at the hotel then our bus will come to pick you up and take a ride to Sapa. Arrive at Sapa bus station in the mid-noon, our driver will be waiting for you at the bus office holding a sign with Friendly travel logo and your name clearly marked. We will then take you to our office for having lunch with local food. Meet up our tour guide at the office. We will then depart from the hotel at 2:00pm and walk down 3km to Exploring Cat Cat – Shin chai village of H’mong – A colonial French discovered area and a renowned resort to officials from the early twentieth century.

Arriving to Cat Cat village, visitors will be visiting the Hydropower station, the waterfall of Cat Cat village as well as learning about the culture, customs and unique people here with traditional crafts such as weaving, carved silver, hand forged agricultural tools.

After that you will walk back to Sapa (4Km)

Dinner at 6:30PM or 7:00PM

-         Meals: Breakfast, Vietnam Lunch, Vietnam Dinner

-         Walking to Cat Cat Village.

DAY 4: SAPA – LAO CHAI TA VAN VILLAGE (B)

Breakfast at your hotel. Then we could start our trekking down to Y Linh Ho, a village inhabited by the Hmong minority. This is a great opportunity to take photographs of hereditary terraces that are estimated around 100 years old. From Y Linh Ho we will make our way to Lao Chai village where you will visit the Hmong hometown. You will then continue to Ta Van, an established Hmong and Giay village. In Ta Van village we will then arrange a minivan to pick you up and take you to Sapa.  Dinner at 6:30PM or 7:00PM

-         Meals: Breakfast, Vietnam Lunch & Dinner

-         Walking to Lao Chai – Ta Van Village. The way back by car.

DAY 5: FANSIPAN MOUTAIN – SAPA – HA NOI

Have breakfast and check-out the room before 8:00AM

We begin the day with a 3km by car to get to cable car station (Cable car tickets not included), start to visit Fansipan peak – the highest peak of Vietnam and Indochina. Visit, enjoy the scenic view (if you are lucky with the weather) visit the temple, the highest Buddha statue on the mountain. After visit the Fansipan you get lift down by cable car again.

Get pickup at the foot of the mountain and drive you have lunch.

Depending on what time your bus departs from Sapa, we will drive you to bus station before 30mins of the bus departure

-         Meals for SIC: Breakfast, Vietnam Lunch.

-         Fansipan Cable car 2 ways is included

DAY 6: HA NOI CITY TOUR FULL DAY (B)

Have breakfast at the hotel. Then our tour guide will pick you up for Hanoi city tour. We visit Tran Quoc Pagoda located on Golden Fish Island in West Lake. It is the oldest pagoda in Ha Noi built in the 6th century.

Then visit Ho Chi Minh complex, you have a chance to see the embalmed body of Ho Chi Minh then walk around the garden to see 2 houses where he lived & worked from 1954 to 1969. Then visit One Pillar Pagoda where worships the God of Mercy – It is the most unique pagoda in the world

- Should dress modestly by covering from shoulders to knees when visiting Ho Chi Minh mausoleum, temples, pagodas…

- Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum is closed on Mondays and Fridays.

- Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum is closed at least 2 months (15thJune -15thAugust) for the annual maintaining but still can take picture Mausoleum and visit around that area

Then we visit Vietnam Ethnology Museum to learn about the culture of 54 ethnic groups living in the whole country of Vietnam (Special Note: we will visit Women Museum instead of Ethnology Museum closed on Mondays)

Have lunch at the local restaurant.

Afternoon, we visit Temple of Literature – the first university of Vietnam, established in the 11th century. Then we leave for Hoa Lo Prison Museum, which originally used by the French colonists in Indochina for political prisoners, and later by North Vietnam for U.S. prisoners of war during the Vietnam War. During this later period, was known to American POWs as the "Hanoi Hilton”.

Then we back to the hotel around 16h00 – 16h30. Tour ends.

-         Meals for SIC: Breakfast, Vietnam Lunch.

DAY 7: DEPARTURE – AIRPORT TRANSFER (B)

Have breakfast at the hotel and then free time shopping or walking around the city. Then you are free time at your leisure until transfer to the International Airport for departure. Goodbye Vietnam.

-         Meals: Breakfast

-         SIC: Airport Transfer no guide

               PRICE TARIFF: NET PRICE USD/PER PAX (Adult)

       NOTE THAT:

    -  To save cost we do Join Tour: Group from 2- 9pax & Private tour: From 10pax up (Full meals)

    -  We can quote from 2-9 pax by private tour so please contact us if needed.

    -  From 17pax we will quote as follows the specific inquiry. Please contact for the best rate.

        HOTEL NAMES OR SIMILAR: Similar hotels in case hotel fully book.

TRAVEL INCLUSIONS:

• Hotel Sharing room with Double/Twin/Triple.
• Private transfers for Airport Transfer round ways.
• English speaking guide for tour only (Other languages please mention with extra cost)
• Entrance fees mentioned above.
• One bottle of mineral water per person per day of tour.
• Vietnam Meals as specified in the program (B=Breakfast, L=Lunch, D=Dinner)
• Other Meals like Indian food or other foods, should be charged with extra cost. Please inform us and we will quote. If you want to change LUNCH to DINNER please pay for extra cost of transportation (Apply for Private tour only)

TRAVEL EXCLUSIONS:

• Domestic or International Air fares.
• Excluded Tipping (Compulsory): Tipping fee is USD 3 per pax per day (USD 2 per pax per day for guide and USD 1 per person per day for driver) Please pay directly to them.
• VISA charges if required need to pay extra cost: E-visa 35 usd/pax (Please give 1 photo 4*6 with white background & Passport Page). Country Names for E-visa as link below:

(https://www.xuatnhapcanh.gov.vn/documents/20181/117155/Vietnam-Evisa-nation-list.pdf/21e0f88f-d8a0-48b8-bfdb-a0f82b0853e2)

• In case you want to do visa online (E-visa) Link as below:

    (https://evisa.xuatnhapcanh.gov.vn/en_US/web/guest/khai-thi-thuc-dien-tu/cap-thi-thuc-dien-tu)

• Services not mentioned above.
• Personal items & hotel incidental charges.
• Early check in, check out are not guaranteed & subject to extra charge.
• Extra charges, personal expenses drinks, souvenirs, laundry, mini-bar in hotel, etc.
• Surcharge for peak season if any (upon booking)
• International Bank Fee or any fee for money transfer is not inclusive.

NOTE: Small deviations in the tour program are sometimes necessary, depending on weather, road conditions, flight schedules and room availability.