Discover North Vietnam 7 Days

Day 01 : Arrive Hanoi 

Meeting at Noi Bai airport to start vietnam travel packages 7 days 6 nights. Meet your car and transfer to hotel. The rest of the day is at leisure.  Overnight in Hanoi.

Day 02 : Hanoi to Halong Boat Cruise (B, L, D)

We transfer overland to Halong Bay - the first place for vietnam travel packages 7 days, northeast of Hanoi and enter into the Red River Delta, rich with rural beauty and picturesque rice-farming villages. Once reaching Halong Bay, We board the wooden junk and set sail for a leisure cruise of Halong Bay. Declared a World Heritage Site to protect its beauty, we'll cruise through its three-thousand islands and rich rock-formations, passing by Ga Choi Island, Dinh Huong Island, Dog Island, Sail Island, and even visit Sung Sot Cave. Lunch served on-board while viewing the islands. Dinner and overnight in Halong Bay on Cruise.

Day 03 : Halong Bay - Hanoi (B, L)

Keep cruising around the bay. Back to Halong bay harbour. Lunch. Back to Hanoi. Check in hotel. Free time for shopping and dinner. Overnight in Hanoi

Day 04 : Hanoi - Tam Coc Cave or Perfume Pagoda - Hanoi (B, L)

Option 1: Hoa Lu - Tam Coc Cave

AM : Pick-up from your hotel is at 8:00am, we have a 2 hour drive (110km South) to the city of Ninh Binh, also known as the Island Ha Long and the Ancient Capital. It will be an exciting day highlighted, by a 2 hour boat ride in a hand woven bamboo row boat down the Tam Coc stream enjoying spectacular scenery surrounded by rice paddies and towering limestone mountain peaks.

PM : After lunch served at a local riverside restaurant we make a short transfer (4 km) down a peaceful country road to Hoa Lu, Vietnam’s ancient capital eleven centuries ago. Here, there are two temples dedicated to King Dinh and King Le, the founders of the ancient capital during the 10th century. Return to Hanoi and the tour ends at your hotel around 5:00 pm. In the evening, take the night train to Lao Cai. Overnight on train. (Soft Sleepers)
Option 2: Perfume Pagoda

Depart for the Perfume Pagoda, which is not just one pagoda but many shrines and sanctuaries built into mountainsides. This famous complex of pagodas is also one of Vietnam great pilgrimage sites. After two and half hour drive through the rich farming land of the Red River Delta, we arrive at the Perfume Pagoda. Here we enjoy a leisurely boat excursion on the Yen River past the  spectacular landscape of flooded rice fields and undulating mountains. After two hour river trip we embark on a rugged walk uphill to explore some of the many pagodas and the sacred grotto of Huong Tich. Back to Hanoi. In the evening, take the night train to Lao Cai. Overnight on train. (Soft Sleepers)

Day 05 : Lao Cai - Sapa - Cat Cat & Ta Phin Village (B, L, D)

Arrive at Lao Cai Train station at about 6.30, welcome by our local guide and take a ride to Sapa. Have breakfast and relax before exploring Sapa Town. In the afternoon, take a 2km trek to Cat Cat Village, home of H'mong Ethnics. Meet & talk with locals to learn more about their daily life. Then continue the ride to Ta Phin village (12km from Sapa) home to the Red Dzao minority. Visit Ta Phin Cave, Ta Phin handicraft shops and explore the daily life of Red Dzao. Here you have good choice to buy woven and textile brocades, which are hand made by ethnic people. Visit a small hamlet of Black H'mong people here too. Overnight in Sapa

Day 06 : Sapa - Lao Chai - Ta Van Village - Lao Cai (B, L)

In the morning, take a drive to visit Lao Chai village – home of Black H’Mong – here you will trek through terraced rice fields to villages, meet and talk with locals to learn more about their daily life and habits. Then trek through Ta Van village – home of Dzay hill tribe and get on car back to Sapa. A short shopping in town before moving to Lao Cai station. Have dinner at local restaurant before getting on AC 4 berth soft sleeper train.

Day 07 : Hanoi (B, L)

A short city tour to: Ngoc Son temple and Hoan Kiem Lake; Ho Chi Minh complex: Ho Chi Minh museum, Ho Chi Minh mausoleum; One pillar pagoda; West Lake and Tran Quoc Pagoda. Lunch. At leisure until transfer to Noi Bai Airport for onward flight. Finish the vietnam travel pakage 7 days. See you again next trip

Tour Price Price per pax (adult) in US Dollars

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Seat-in-coach price
Class/Group size	30 Sep - 31 Dec 2013
	Per pax	Remark
Standard	438 - 407	Dong Thanh hotel & Dolphin Diamond Cruise

Seat-in-coach tours: To join with other people on available daily tours. These tours are fixed itinerary and departure time. It is possible to join in even your group of only 1 or 2 people. Customer do not to find other people to form the group. It is our company duty to gather the tourists for each tour. For these tours, you have to share the coach, boat and tour guide with other tourists who come from different nationalities. The number of people of this group is normally less than 20 persons

Private price
Class/Group size	30 Sep - 31 Dec 2013
	2 pax	3 - 4 pax	5 - 6 pax	7 - 9 pax	10 - 14 pax	Single Sup
Standard	644	562	509	487	436	206
Superior	789	707	654	632	581	395
Deluxe	879	779	744	722	671	485
Luxury	969	987	834	812	761	575

Private tour: To do the tour privately. The tour is not fixed, it is possible to be customized for your group. All service is reserved for your group only. You do not have to share the bus, boat, tour guide with other tourists. One exception, if you stay at the boat in Ha Long bay - it is like the hotel in Ha Long - you still have to share the boat with other people

Price included

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• Hotel accommodation based on twin or triple share with daily breakfast (incl: services charges, room taxes and baggage handling)
• Meals as specified in the itinerary
• All transfers and transportation
• Soft sleepers air-conditioning train tickets
• English- speaking guide (other languages are available upon request).
• Sightseeing as specified including entrance fees

Price excluded

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• Optional tours
• Tips for tour guide, driver
• Travel insurance
• Expenditure of a personal nature, tips, such as drinks, souvenirs, laundry, emergency transfers & etc
• Visa fee 
• International airfare to/ from Vietnam & International airport tax in Vietnam
• Others which are not mentioned in the inclusion

Remark

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• Rates are subjected to changed without prior notice.
• Itinerary is subject to change depending on flights, road condition and room availability
• As indicated: A/C= Air-conditioning, O/N= Overnight, B=Breakfast, L=Lunch, D=Dinner

Accommodations offers in this trip 

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Hotels	Standard	Superior	Deluxe	Premium
Hanoi hotels	Dong Thanh hotel(3*)	Chalcedony hotel(4*)	Melia hotel(5*)	Sofitel Legend Metropole(5*)
Halong Boat hotels	Halong Dolphin(3*)	Calypso Cruise (4*)	Victory Star Cruise(5*)	Jasmine/Ginger Cruise
Sapa hotels	Royal View Sapa(3*)	Chau Long hotel(4*)	Victoria Sapa Resort & Spa(4*)	Victoria Sapa Resort & Spa (deluxe room)

Tour map

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